NEW AIR SERVICE
LINK WITH MOUNT COOK * AERODROME IMPROVEMENTS ■ ,_ ;■ ' —— ' [by telegraph—-own cobbesponbent} CHRISTCHURCH, .Thursday An air service ' linking Mount- Cook and Queenstown with Timaru .. and Christchurch will be in operation "next summer. Two twin-engineed Vega Gull machines will be placed on thei service by the Mount Cook and Southern Lake* Tourist Company, and a new aerodrome on the shingle flats of the Hooker River, immediately in front of the | will be constructed. The company's I machines will make use of the new ! aerodromes at Timaru and Queenstown. I Only small areas of both of these fields j have been sown in grass up to the I present.
The inauguration of the air service linking Christchurch, Timaru, Mount Cook and Queenstown is included in the scheme now tinder way for giving improved access to Mount Cook—the alpine sports ground of New Zealand.' The existing aerodrome at the Hermitage is three and a-half miles from the hostel. The ground is shaped like an A, with runs of 600 yards. This aerodrome will be kept open and the new ground will be used in fine weather and in the prevailing northerly wind* It will have a runway of 600, yards.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23036, 13 May 1938, Page 11
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