AERODROME PROPOSAL

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 55, 12 March 1943, Page 5

AERODROME PROPOSAL

COUNTY COUNCIL'S MOVE INVITATION TO BOROUGH "Well it certainly is refreshing to see the Counity Council! moving in this direction after all the difficulties it made in the-past,'» said the Mayor, Mr B. S. Barry, at the monthly meeting of the Whakatane Borough Council, when discussing a letter from the County Council inviting a delegation to attend a joint conference on the question of establishing, an aero-» drome in the district. 2 Mr Barry added that past e x per ie eiiee 011 the question of an acro--1 drome had shown the County to be 3 most disinterested until Mr Cliff Mc- - Cullocli became chairman. Up till " that time the Borough had been left 3 to do all the pushing on i£sj <y\vn, J getting no co-operation whatsoever. "> Cr Canning said, there was. some new blood on the Council and lie * was very pleased to see a move to 1 join hands on the important question of an aerodrome. At. the suggestion of. the Mayor 5 it was decided, to make the propos- - cd conference an, open occasion for t all Councillors to attend if they so ■* desired. Cr Good intimated that, the ChamI ber of Commerce had also been in- * vited and that body was of the opinion that every effort, should be made [ to get down to a tangible working - basis and finalise the project one - way or the other. t