AEROPLANE SURVEYS.
•9 "NOT WARRANTED AT PRESENT" WELLINGTON, Last Night. In the Legislative Council to-day, the Hon. Wm. Thompson asked whether the Government had taken into consideration the practicability oi obtaining by aeroplane, photographic survey, more economically and rapidly than by any other method, a series of topographical maps, on which geological surveys and forest surveys may be based, as well as surveys of railway lines over forest-covered country. In reply, Sir Francis Bell said the matter had been thoroughly investigated and it had been found that On account of the high initial cost of aerial survey and the fact of the hilly country preventing accuracy, an aerial survey on the lines asked was considered unwarranted at the present time.
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Shannon News, 28 August 1925, Page 4
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120AEROPLANE SURVEYS. Shannon News, 28 August 1925, Page 4
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