AIRPORT PROPOSED.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20648, 24 June 1935, Page 8

AIRPORT PROPOSED.

Consideration by Dunedin Harbour Board. (Special to the “ Star.”) DUNEDIN, This Day. A proposal to equip Dunedin with an airport is under consideration. The locality lies on what is known as the southern endowment, an area of land lying between the head of the harbour and Anderson’s Bay Road. This land is under the control of the Otago Harbour Board, which at its last meeting “ received and noted ” a report from its engineer recommending that the board should postpone its decision on the subject until the reclamation of the area has been completed, an operation which it is estimated will occupy* about four or five years. When the subject was referred to Mr Ivan Penrose, vice-president of the Otago Aero Club, he said that if the area were to be made suitable for an airport it would be necessary to extend the runway further into the harbour in a north-easterly direction. There was sufficient length east and west for aeroplanes to land in calm weather, but for the prevailing winds, which were north-east and south-west, the present runway of 400 yards was not considered long enough for the larger type of transport aeroplanes. ’