OHAKEA AIRPORT
Sir,—Before Ohakea is to be used as the airport for Wellington-Australia, etc., planes, may we have an estimate of the cost involved of transporting the various staffs? If the planes from Australia arrive, say, at 7.30 a.m., will the customs, medical, servicing, office, bank, etc., staffs rise from their beds in Wellington at 3.30 a.m. and indulge in the “comfortable” two hours and a half run to Ohakea or will they be all billeted at hotels in Palmerston North, Marton or Bulls (3, 4 and 5 star) for the previous night? Further, will the heavy expenditure thus involved be recovered by a surcharge on fares when Ohakea is the terminal or departure point, or will it be recovered by the three routes. The ChristchurchMelbourne route has had to carry all the cost of the extra mileage over the Wellington-Sydney flying-boat route. — Yours, etc., CURIOUS. July 7, 1954.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27396, 8 July 1954, Page 7
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