£5000 BY LOAN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19371, 8 July 1937, Page 11

£SOOO BY LOAN

NAPIER AERODROME MAYOR’S PREDICTION A statement that lie could foresee the early expenditure of £sooo—to be raised by loan—on the Beacons aerodrome, was made by the Mayor ol Napier, Mr. C. O. Morse, at a meeting of the Napier City Council.

Mr. Morse indicated that it would be impossible for the council’s general fund to surrender this amount, which would be required for the provision of necessary equipment and the improving of the aerodrome.

“The first move which the Napier Airport Board will have to make is to decide which of the Beacons and Embankment aerodromes will meet requirements,” said Mr. Morse. “That will be decided at the next meeting, when I intend to move that the board should decide whether or not the Beacons aerodrome is to be developed. The next move will be to go into ways and means of providing hangars and other equipment. I have visions of a £SOOO expenditure. "It will be necessary to have proper plans and specifications for this work and we will have to go before the ratepayers for permission to raise the loan,” Mr. Morse went on. “It is impossible to take that amount gut of the general account. An amount of £SOOO, of course, will not be a great deal spread over the ratepayers of Napier.” Referring to allegations of delay which had been made recently, Mr. Morse claimed that the Airport Board, through the generosity of the City Council, had done all it possibly covild under the circumstances.

“Aviation has mopped up £2OOO of the ratepayers’ money in two years,” Mr. Morse went on. “An amount of £IOSO of that has gone on the establishment of the present aerodrome at the Embankment, in addition, of course, to the £20,000 expended by '.he Public Works Department through the channels of the Employment De'■irtment. Apparently, all that is tc go bv the board, and we have to turn our thoughts to the aerodrome at the Beacpns.”