INSPECTED BY AIR

Waikato Times, Volume 123, Issue 20668, 1 December 1938, Page 10

INSPECTED BY AIR

MARLBOROUGH AREAS , ADVANTAGES DEMONSTRATED TOUR BY COMMISSION (By Tele?rapn.—Press Association) BLENHEIM, Thursday The advantages of the use of an | aeroplane in carrying: out inspections j in hackbiock hill country were de- | rnonstrated in possibly a unique | fashion this morning when the Marlborough Aero Club’s Waco cabin machine was chartered by the Marlborough No. 2 Adjustment Commission for examining several properties in the Sounds district. In the ordinary course visits to the areas concerned by launch and on foot would j have occupied at least two days but by air over 200 miles were covered in 1 hour 45 minutes and more comprehensive investigation was possible than would have been the case otherwise. The members of the commission, Messrs G. M. Spence, A. R. Graham and E. Reid, piloted by Mr E. F. Holdaway, took off from Blenheim and flew over the Queen Charlotte, Perojus and Kenepuru Sounds, circling the properties several times at a low altitude. From the air they found it > possible to gain a very much better i idea of the class of country com- | prised in the properties than would I have been possible by clambering over them on foot. One thing that unfavourably impressed the commission was the evidence of extensive slipping and erosion in some parts of the Sounds that were denuded of bush.