ARE WE AIRMINDED?

Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19212, 19 September 1934, Page 4

ARE WE AIRMINDED?

(To the Editor). Sir,—There is a talk of establishing an airport at Thames. Are we alive to the possibilities of an airport? It is worthy of consideration of small towns and cities, the great significance of commercial aviation. In the near future you will see new names come into prominence,, names that .are little known to-day. You will hear of Auckland as an air station; of New Plymouth as a terminal of importance; of others north, east, south and west. Important development of the new trans-* portation is coming. Great transportation lines will be inaugurated, tying city to city, ocean to ocean, continent to continent, by routes that will be measures not in miles, but in terms of time. Already it is possible for an airplane to reach any port in New Zealand in twelve hours. As the dedevelopment of the motor-car depended upon the extension of good roads, so the general usefulness of the airplane depends upon the establishment of adequate landing fields, lighted routes and townmarkers visible from the sky. The ships of the air are already vital factors of commerce, looking always for new harbours and new markets. Let Thames, with its suitable landing ground, awake to the great possibilities of the ah*, and determine that it shall be known in the skies as a harbour open to the commerce of the Dominion and of the world.—l am, etc., J. WILSON JOHNSTONE.