COOK STRAIT AIRWAYS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 30 November 1938, Page 8

COOK STRAIT AIRWAYS

TRANSFERENCE TO NEW AERODROME REMOVAL OPERATIONS TO-DAY ALL PLANES WILL OPERATE FROM TAHUNANUI TO-MORROW The Stoke aerodrome is being used for the last time to-day by Cook Strait Airways and when the planes arrive back in Nelson tonight they will go to the new aerodrome at Tahunanui ready to commence operations from the new ground to-morrow morning. The new hangars, workshops and the grounds in the vicinity of the company’s new buildings presented a busy scene to-day when the transference of the plant and equipment from Stoke was taking place ready for installation in the new home of the service. In addition to large lorries and staff employed on the transference work, the Telegraph Department and Waimea Electric Power Board staffs were installing the telephone and electric services respectively, while the contractors for concreting a large area in front of the main doors of the hangar also had a large number of employees engaged. Carpenters, plumbers, and painters were completing their work on the buildings and after one of the large tractors used on the construction of the ’drome had cut out a roadway to the building. Public Works surveyors and employees were engaged in filling in the road with metal. By this evening the Company will have all its 1 staff and equipment at the new ground. Construction work is still proceeding on the outside fringes of the new area but the greater part of the aerodrome is now in good order, the surfaces of the long runways having a good covering of grass on them. Mr T. A. Johnston, District Engineer of the Public Works Department, states that all work on the new ’drome will be completed about the middle of January next. READY FOR THE AIR The new plane ZK-AGT, which has just been assembled, was tested this afternoon.