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Rose Bay Terminal In Australia FLYING BQAT SKRVICI
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(Received 4, 9.30 a.m.) CANBERRA, Aug. 3. The Fedej.al Cabinet, aft^r long consideration, decided to establish the overseaa air mail terminal at Rose Bay inside Sydney Harbour. It will be ready for the inauguration of the flying boat service ip January. The base will eventually be Botany Bay. which is expected to become a huge airport, embracing both land and water machines in the vicinity of Mascot aerodrome. Only passengers and mails will be handlod at Rose Bay. Re■pairs will be carried out elsewhere. The decisjqn of Cabinet was greatly delayed being hampered by the hostility oi the citizens of the Rose Bay area who raised all manner of objections to 'the establishment of the terminal in their district which contains tine homes and residential sites.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 169, 4 August 1937, Page 5
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