AIR TOUR OF COUNTY
Councillors' inspection Tour An aerial tour of the Cook County from end to end was made recently by members of the council and the chiefs of the staff, before cousiderdng estimates the same day. This is the first occasion ou whieh an entire local body has ueed aircraft for this purpose in New Zealand. The flight was undertaken because of a change in the system of rating, In the past the council operated on the system of riding accounts, and this year these have been abolished. Formerly, a eouncillor was required to know only his own riding, but under the present system a knowledge of every portion of the county will be holpful. For this reason it was decided to inSpect the whole county. A tour by road, it was estimated, would have occupied at leaat foUr days, possibly more. Iuquiries showed that an aerial tQur could be aeeomplished in a fractiou of tho time at a greatiy reduced expenditure. Botli the East Coast Airways aeroplanes wero chartered at a cost of £25, and an estimate made of the cost to travol round the county by road was nearly double that amount.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 98, 12 May 1937, Page 12
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196AIR TOUR OF COUNTY Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 98, 12 May 1937, Page 12
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