AERODROME

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 68, 30 April 1943, Page 8

AERODROME

* QUESTION OF SITE

COUNTY AND BOROUGH

VIEWPOINTS

Writing the County Council at its meeting last Tuesday on the question of the proposed site for the future district aerodrome the Borough Council stated that the proposal discussed at the combined meeting held 18tli March to use County Council's "plantation" property at Te Teko was reported and considered at the Borough Council meeting held on 12tli April, and the - following resolution passed:—

"That the County Council be advised that this Council does not consider the suggested site at Te Teko to be a suitable one, it being considered insufficiently central concerning the district it would be required to serve; that the local bodies, invite an officer of the appropriate department to visit Whakatane and district for the purpose of inspecting and advising on suitable sites, the two bodies in the meantime, to endeavour to locate and decide upon alternative sites for his inspection and consideration.®' All previous departmental negotiations had been arranged, and correspondence with other parties, conducted by the Borough Council, which held complete records ing the proposal since an aerodrome for Whakatane was first mooted. In consequence it was suggested that the Borough Council might continue to make arrangements or conduct correspondence concerning this joint project through its officers, it being understood, that all correspondence. etc. past, present and future was freely available to the Whakatane County Council. The council resolved that the Borough Council be respectfully requested to name its first preference as a Whakatane aerodrome site— that both preferences be then submitted to the authorities for report.