AERIAL SURVEY
OF COAST SEA BED MAY BE DELAYED v ßy Telegraph—Special to "Th« Mail") CHRISTCHURCH, 18th July. Unless the weather clears up enough to aiTow a Moth 'plane to fly over the Southern Alps within two or three days the aerial survey of the sea 'bed between Greymouth and Farewell Spit will have to be postponed for a further five or six days. This is because aircraft flying to Westport, which has no landing ground, have to use the beach and though the tides are suitable at present they will not remain that way for more than two or three more days. Then will come a week when low tide falls at night, and the' beach is not workable.
The Moth which is to go to Westport will be Hown either by Captain M. W. Buckley, N.Z.R.A.F., O.C. Wigram Airdrome, or by Captain H. B. Burrell, N.Z.R.A.F. and the pilot will have with him as a passenger Captain Whiteford of the Marine Department who will make personal observations from the air. The Karamea Gorge will also be surveyed presumably because the river has fallen and it is feared that the gorge is blocked.
"Very fine weather is necessary for the scheme to be successful," Captain Burrell told a reporter to-day, "otherwise •he sea floor cannot be seen from the air."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 19 July 1929, Page 4
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