EMERGENCY LANDING GROUNDS
CHAIN TO BE ESTABLISHED
EMPLOYMENT OF RELIEF LABOUR (By Telegraph—Press Association) WELLINGTON. This Day. Toward the end of last year Cabinet approved of a scheme of establishing a chain of mergency landing grounds throughout the Dominion. The sum of £SOOO was provided for the purpose,. enabling a commencement to be unade with the work by means of relief labour. The services of the Public Works- Department engineer, Mr E. A. Gibson, were placed at the disposal of the Defence Department. As a result about 50 proposed aerodromes and landing grounds have been inspected, and their suitability or otherwise has been reported upon. The Minister of Defence, the Hon. J. i. G. Cobbe, said that with the object of ... ' facilitating the progress of the work.' and enabling it to be carried out on a similar system to that followed recently at Wigram Aerodrome, where extensive C, levelling operations have been completed in a very satisfactory manner, the Unemployment Board bad agreed to subsidise the labour cost up to 20 per cent, in excess of the total allocations under the No. 5 scheme for the relief labour engaged.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 2 June 1934, Page 4
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