SUPPLIES BY PLANE TO BACK COUNTRY

Chronicle (Levin), 21 August 1946, Page 7

SUPPLIES BY PLANE TO BACK COUNTRY

-Press Association

By Telegrayh-

WELLINGTON, August 2U. The treinendous possibilities for the use of aeropianes to maintain contact with.isolated baek country areas and in sovring seed and manuring border lands between plains and hills to make them suitabfe for pasture, wero mentionecl by aii official of the Areonautical Division of the Public Works Departinent today. Au inter-departmental ' comniittee was sitting on the subjcct at the moment and was considering the setting up of an organisation on a big enougn sealc to deal with all the potentialities. A report would be niade of the findings to the Government. Already much experinicntal work hau been done. One quite obvious feature of it was the great saving in both expense and time. All jobs were carefutiy explored bet'ore embarked upon. The finn desire of those involved in the selicnie was to lceep it on a rationai basis while reulising the great seope for an expansion of the plau which, u was possilile, would Jater be carried mto practice. As the result of oxperinients in the Tararuas where matorial.s for the buihling of huts liad beeu dropped from the uir, was the transport of supplies toi const rucling ,10 or 00 huts in country alniost up at .the busli line in rough areas, wliirli could becoiue headquarter? for parlies engaged on the destruction of deer. Tliese liuts were almost iiupos silile lo Ituild except by this method oi getting in niaterials. as the time wasted by land liaulage would be prohibitive Thougli certain supplies had been land ed in the baek regions of the Tararuas tliis work had been hcld up for severn reasons, while also the plane most suit able for the joli had been undergoing au overland. The field for the use of aeropliines was one altracting privnte enterprise ' and already two eonipanies had been I'ornied to do tliis type of work, ouo ai least liaving been licensed.