AERODROME EXTENSION
CENTRAL HAWKE'S BAY COMPLETED SCHEME FOR £IB,OOO [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WAIPT7KURAU, Wednesday The Central Hawke's Bay Aero Club has purchased an additional 33 acres to enlarge the site of the aerodrome. Eighty acres are now in course of development. The extra area was obtained at a cost of £I7OO and in response to the point of view of civil aviation and defence experts that an extension to the north-east was strongly desirable. Twenty additional men are being engaged forthwith. The completed purchase and preparation of the aerodrome will represent an outlay of about £IB,OOO, of which the cost of the land will be £4400. The secretary states that the club's operations are calculated to show a profit.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22412, 7 May 1936, Page 10
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