WHANGAREI AERODROME
j SITE AT POHE ISLAND OFFICER TO MAKE REPORT ' The Whangarei Borough Council lias j been advised by the Minister of Public Works. Ihe lion. 11. Semple. that the department's land purchase officer has been instructed to confer with the conncil in regard lo a landing ground at -Polio Island. This is the result of the t council's request that thai officer should i report in regard to the valuation of Grown tenants' interests on Polie Island. I where it is proposed to develop a temporary aerodrome. Continuing, the Minister slated thai the aerodrome engineer had informed |,i m thai I'ohe Island site, if developed lo the best advantage, would serve air transport until such lime as the Otuika site could be developed as a permanent -round. The Minister pointed diil that liie'airporl authority, whether.! the Borough Council or a specially constituted authority under an airporl board, could not be constituted a local aviation authority until such time as Ihe body concerned was actually controlling a piece of land for aerodrome . purposes . | H wan decided lo take no forth >r ~,.|,ioii until the deparlmcni.'s ollict r had I eonferreil with the council.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19360326.2.16
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18974, 26 March 1936, Page 3
Word Count
194WHANGAREI AERODROME Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18974, 26 March 1936, Page 3
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in