The Wanganui Chronicle WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1928. WANGANUI AS AN AIRPORT
yiFE PRESENCE here of Major Wilkes, Director of Aviation, may have a most important bearing on the future of Wanganui in connection with aviation. This city has good claims for consideration as an airport, and there is little doubt that they will be pressed well home by the Mayor, Mr AV. J. Rogers, and others who will to-day escort Major Wilkes to likely landing fields in the locality.
There will, in the development of the future, be certain need of an airport on the West Coast of the North Island. There can be no centre more suitable than Wanganui, and its claims are enhanced by its river, which offers remarkably fine facilities for the establishment of a seaplane base. In the question of coastal defence, seaplanes must be considered as inseparable adjuncts 1o warships. The resiilt of this visit by the Director of Aviation will be awaited with much interest. Meanwhile the Mayor must be congratulated on his enterprise iu attracting the attention of such airmen as Kingsford Smith and LTm, and of the Dominion air authorities, to the rare claims of Wanganui.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 6
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194The Wanganui Chronicle WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1928. WANGANUI AS AN AIRPORT Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 222, 19 September 1928, Page 6
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