AN AIR SURVEY
contract for northern RHODESIA. RUGBY, December 10. The contract for an air survey of 68,000 square miles of Northern Rhodesia is to be awarded to the Aircraft Operating Company of London. “The Times” says that the projected taurvey, which will be begun next April, is welcome proof of the increasing realisation of the part which air survey is destined to play in the development of the Empire. It had * been recommended by the Special Development Act, and the resulting contract is the largest yet awarded to a commercial company. Except in Canada, the political use of air survey in the dominions and colonies' has so far been eonfined~to relatively small operations. V “InV future,” says the paper, “the administrators of any colony of which an air survey has been made will have a bird’s-eye view of the whole area at their disposal, and-they will thus be able to adjust their plans of development, in accordance 'with the character, resources, and.. railway requirements of the unexpected region. The resultant facilities for tapping and exploiting;the unused wealth of the Empire must eventually provide a real assistance in providing employment.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1929, Page 7
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190AN AIR SURVEY Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1929, Page 7
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