AERIAL TRANSPORT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21018, 6 May 1930, Page 10

AERIAL TRANSPORT.

NEW ZEALAND AS PORT OF CALL. BITE FOR MOORING MAST SOUGHT. (Special to Daily Tikes.) ' . WELLINGTON, May 5. . With a view to having sufficient reli able rological data available when the time comes for New Zealand to be a Eort of call for airships, observations have een commenced by the Meteorological Office.' Already some work in connection with air currents has been done in different parts of the Dominion. ' Aeroplanes will possibly play an important part in New Zealand’s transport system _of the future, and the information that will be secured as a result of the research' now being carried out will prove as valuable to the pilots aa it will, to those in control of airships. With 'the coming of the airship will arise the necessity, of a mooring mast and a suitable site for it. This question was first gone into as far back as two years ago. There are several considerations which affect tile selection of a suitable spot. In the first place the locality of the mast has to be free frpm hydro-electric reticulation. It has also to be central and handy to a distributing centre. No selection of a mooring mast site has yet been made, but it Is understood that there are several sites meeting the necessaray conditions which have received consideration from the authorities. To some people the preparations now being made may seem somewhat premature; tut, . the trend of events at Home and in other countries seems to indicate that the airship will be the chief means of air transport over water and long distances. With the information it is now obtaining New Zealand will not be caught napping.