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Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1933, Page 3

PUBLIC NOTICES. NEW PLYMOUTH AIRPORT. LOCAL BILL. IS HEREBY GIVEN that it is the intention of the New Plymouth Borough Council (hereinafter referred to as “the Council”) with the consent and co-operation of The New Plymouth Aero Club Incorporated (hereinafter referred to as “the Club”) to introduce in the forthcoming Session of Parliament a Local Bill under the title of "The New Plymouth Airport Act, 1933.” The objects intended to be effected by the said Bill are as follows:— 1. To validate a Deed of Agreement dated the 31st day of July, 1933, made between the Council and the Club. 2. To provide that the provisions of the said Deed of Agreement shall be deemed to have been enacted by the above mentioned Act. 3. To confer upon the Council and the Club certain necessary and incidental powers. 4. The said Deed of Agreement, which, if and when validated, will form part of the said Act, provides inter alia that:— (a) The Council shall purchase for the purposes of an Aerodrome 117 acres 3 roods 35 perches of land at Bell Block near New Plymouth adjoining the Club’s existing Aerodrome. (b) The Club shall vest in the Council without compensation tire Sixty acres of land owned by it and now known as the Bell Block Aerodrome. (c) No portion of these two pieces of land shall be sold or leased without the consent of the Club except that the Airport Board may exercise certain leasing powers granted to it. (d) An Airport Board to be known as “Tire New Plymouth Airport Board” consisting of seven members, three to be appointed by the Council, three by the Club and one by the Controller of Civil Aviation, shall be constituted. (e) The Airport Board shall interalia be empowered to construct and maintain landing and takingoff places for aircraft and provide buildings and other accommodation and equipment for the aerodrome; to purchase or otherwise provide land for the extension of the aerodrome; to carry on any subsidiary business which, in tire opinion of the GovernorGeneral, is ancillary to the car- * rying on of the aerodrome; purchase or hire aircraft and necessary plant; as a business ancillary to the aerodrome, carry on the business of aircraft proprietors, carriers of passengers, general carriers, mail contractors, and sellers and dealers in aircraft, parts, or oilier things used in connection with aircraft; to carry out at the aerodrome the business of garage proprietors, fitters, etc., dealers in petrol and 'oils, or goods which may be profitably dealt with by the Board; to erect or purchase hangars, garages, or other necessary buildings, and to equip them as necessary; to erect buildings for the accommodattion of guests, and club-houses, and to determine charges and regulations for them; to provide searchlights and floodlight equipment; to provide gardens or lawns, and facilities for playing any games; on or near the sea-coast to acquire land, buildings, etc., for the housing or repairing of seaplanes; to provide offices; and generally do all things necessary for the establishment and carrying on of the aerodrome. The Board will not have the power, to establish an aerodrome 'in opposition to the one on the land purchased. With the consent of the owners it may remove obstructions on adjacent lands if they are likely to interfere with flying. The control of flying and the administration of by-laws and air regulations will be vested in the Board, which may also make regulations of its own. The appointment of officers will be done by the Board. (f) The constitution of the Board, the qualification and appointment of its members, its proceedings, its powers and duties, its revenues, its finance, its methods of legal proceedings, etc., its powers of leasing, shall be as set out in the said Deed of Agreement. (g) Persons causing . damage to the Aerodrome or other property of the Board, damaging any lighting apparatus, extinguishing lights, or molesting, obstructing or threatening any Officer of the Government, Board, Council or Club in the execution of his duty shall be liable to certain fines and penalties. (h) Tire Board may be dissolved under certain circumstances, in which case the Council shall become the Airport Board with all its powers. (i) Upon dissolution of the Board, the Club shall lose all its rights and privileges under the Deed, and the Council shall pay to the Club the sum of Three thousand five hundred pounds (£3500) in full satisfaction thereof. (j) Certain rights powers and privileges as set out therein shall be reserved by and conferred upon the Club. Inter alia, these rights, etc., comprise perpetual, free, but not exclusive, flying rights over the aerodrome, the right to train aviators and continue its previous activities in the way of developing public interest, providing ground services, providing and operating machines for travelling by air, but not the establishment or maintenance of regular services in competition with commercial aviation authorities. The Board is not to grant similar flying rights to any other Aero Club or similar body, and the Club is