Spoils to the Victors
Admission by Labour Member Special Correspondent INVERCARGILL, May 29. A frank admission that the Labour Government does not neglect its friends was indirectly made by Mr D. Harris, a trade union secretary, at the annual meeting of the Southland Trades Council last night. Thanking delegates for his election to the Airport Committee, Mr Harris declared it was his opinion that if Mr W. M. Denham had been re-elected as Invercargill’s Member of Parliament three years ago, “ we would have had a hangar erected by now.” The building, which has lain in crates on the airfield, was taken there to be erected, not to be left in the state it was in now, overgrown with grass, he said. “I consider Invercargill has had a raw deal so far as the airport is concerned,” he added. Mr Jones, Minister of Civil Aviation, will visit Invercargill on Saturday next, and it is hoped that he will be able to make a statement which would clarify the position about the location of the airport.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27093, 30 May 1949, Page 4
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