Rongotai . . . Three Weeks For Decision
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Government is to be given three weeks to make up its mind whether Rongotai airport is to be developed or discarded in favour of Paraparaumu. If it has not done so then, a large deputation will demand that Rongotai be retained as the airport for the city. This was decided by the Wellington City Council at its meeting yesterday. The Mayor (Mr W. Appleton) after reporting on the ’ recent conference with the Government, said the scheme put forward by the city engineer (Mr K. E. Luke) would prove cheaper in the long run. It provided for a new ideal site for Rongotai College, which it had already been agreed must eventually be shifted.
No move could be made until the college was shifted. The development of Evans Bay as a seaplane base must also be gone into. The Mayor suggested that the proposed deputation would include representatives of the Wellington City Council, the Mayors of Blenheim and Christchurch, the Chamber of Commerce and other interested bodies. Rongotai should be retained as an airport, not only for the City of Wellington, but for the Dominion as a whole.
The Mayor’s proposal to convene the deputation was unanimously approved.
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Northern Advocate, 2 September 1947, Page 4
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