SPEEDED UP

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21508, 22 November 1939, Page 6

SPEEDED UP

WORK ON WOODBOURNE AIR STATION By Telegraph—Press Association BLENHEIM, November 21. An inspection of the air squu. stationed at Woodbourne was carried out by the Governor-General. Vfcjov .( Galway, who arri*. d in one of t. Cook Strait Airways machines recently taken ov~r by the Government. His Excellency displayed a lively inte’-es in the work being carried out in the construction of the air .nation, the progress ’ which has 1 ?en speeded up in recent weeks. One of the ha ‘ gars is now complex :g and houcirg a considerable nuuioer ol machines. The u~ngar is wen on the way completion. Provision is also being made for two add-ticr.al hangars but for the moment the main concentration is on the completion of the second one and the finishing oi ;.ne multitude of smaller buildings wi icb make up the administration and living quarters. Scores of carpenters a”? employ' 4 and other trades are also well reprer. :nted. especially electricians and plumbers. The whole work gives a vivid impression of the g-.rat extort being mr.de to complete at least the principal portions of building programme in the shortest time possible. Viscount Galway this afternoon addressed a meeting of the War Funds Council, later returning to Wellington.