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Work on Timaru Airport Steady progress has been made in the draining and .levelling of the Timaru airport site — the £25,000 scheme being undertaken by the Public Works Department, to be completed by the end of August this year. The work involves the diversion of a creek and largescale drainage operations. V Heavy machinery will be used for" the surlace levelling on the, airport. A 98 horse-power Diesel track-typn tractor has arrived, but the "carryall" for digging, levelling and spreading) has not yet been shipped from "Wellington This equipment is new to the Dominion, for though there are a feW "c&rry-alls" in the North Island, they have arrived only within the last few months. Fifty men are now engaged 6n the airport work. There may be some increase on the £25,000 cost originally estimated, becau^e of increased rates of pay; but the progress of the work is well ahead of «cliedule.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 5, 21 January 1937, Page 9
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