GISBORNE AIRPORT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 157, 5 July 1934, Page 4

GISBORNE AIRPORT

AN ENLARGEMENT PROGRAMME [ Per Press /sboclatlon. J GISBORNE, July 4. Proposals have been submitted to th Borough Council on behalf of the Civi Aviation Board for the reconstructio of the Gisborne Airport, to provide fo a heavy commercial aircraft schcmi It is estimated that the cost will b approximately £12,000, of which £lO,OO will be provided by the Unemploymen Board for wages. Costs of supervisioi will be met by the Aviation Board. Local bodies will be asked to provid about £3OO for materials. The matte will bo considered at a special meetin of the council next week. transacting the Maori was exposed 1 a warm discharge of musketry from th lower stockade, but after exposin himself for some little time he retire to the bush, apparently unhurt. Mi McGregor was speedily relieved froi his awkward position by the enter prise of a spirited young officer, whe on more occasions than this, has distinguished himself here, namely Mi Middleton, of the 58th. This gentle man, accompanied by the master c the Edward Stanley, crossed in tha vessel’s boat, and brought him ovu to .safety, and yet in time to have shot at one of the rebels who was poj> ping his head over the bank. “Mr. McGregor’s wound is nc serious, but was within a line or tw of proving a very complicated an dangerous one. for the ball entered a. the right angle of the lower jaw, an passing between that bone and the soft parts composing the cheek, made its exit by the lips without other lesiou than the external wound.” To-day a tar-seal road skirts the bo; ton. of the cliff, the brink of which T lined with pine trees. The bush ha been cleared from the spot where t»h enterprising Maori took refuge from the stockade fire, and the hand of th . Wanganui Beautifying Society is tbe seeq in the vicinity.