STATUS OT CITY AIRPORT

Southland Times, Issue 25655, 24 April 1945, Page 4

STATUS OT CITY AIRPORT

GOVERNMENT PROMISE OF CONSIDERATION “I will be glad to arrange for the Government to give full consideration to the points that are raised by you as to the suitability of Invercargill as a terminal for a service between Melbourne and Hobart and your city,” states the acting Prime Minister, Mr Nash, in a letter to the town clerk, Mr W. F. Sturman. The letter is in reply to one which Mr Sturman wrote to Mr Nash after the recent conference held in the city to urge the claims of the Invercargill airport as a trans-Tas-man terminal.

The conference also decided to urge the Government to grant Union Airways a permit for the purchase of additional planes so that an all-the-year-round air service between Invercargill and the north could be maintained. In reply to this representation Mr Nash stated: —“I will arrange for the subject of the existing plane service to Invercargill to be examined and for a reply to be sent to you at, an early date.” A letter conveying the representations of the conference was also sent to the Minister of Transport, Mr O’Brien. He has replied stating that he would refer the representations to the Minister in Charge of Civil Aviation. Mr Sturman has also received a letter from the town clerk of Dunedin, stating that the Dunedin City Council would write to appropriate authorities and bodies supporting the representations of the conference on the Invercargill airport. The Dunedin Manufacturers’ Association has written stating that Mr L. Tomison, of the Invercargill branch of the association, had been appointed to represent the association on the committee set up at the conference.