FLYING-BOAT BASE.
CLAIMS OF WELLINGTON. Addressing members at the recent annual meeting of the V ellington Harbour Board, the chairman (Mr M. A. Eliott, of Palmerston North) stated tliat the board had, with other organisations, taken active steps to bring before the Government the advantages of Wellington as a flying-boat base, and it bad offered its co-operation in providing any reasonable facilities that may be required in the establishment of the trans-Tasman air service. Recently the living-boat Aotearoa made a successful landing in Evans Bay. on which occasion the board provided temporary mooring and landing iacih“jf only on account of the central position of Wellington to the rest of New Zealand, and the saving of cost in the distribution of mails, it appears to the hoard, the City Council, and other interests of the city of Wellington that the Wellington harbour should he recognised in any Empire development scheme,” Mr Eliott added.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 117, 16 April 1940, Page 4
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