AERODROME SITES
ON COROMANDEL PENINSULA ftiy Telegraph—Press Association] THAMES, 4th January. Mr J. Thorn, M.P.. for Thames, stated to-day that the Minister of Pulilie Works (the Hon. R. Semple) was giving sympathetic consideration to a request for the early construction of the Thames Aerodrome. Mr Semple also undertook to inquire into representations for an aerodrome at Whangamata, the most southern port on the eastern side of the Coromandel Peninsula, twentythree miles north-east •of Waihi. Mr Thorn said that Mr Philip Williamson, a member of the Thames County Council and a resident of Whangamata, had offered a gift of one hundred acres for the purpose of this aerodrome site.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 6 January 1936, Page 8
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108AERODROME SITES Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 6 January 1936, Page 8
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