AID FOR AVIATION

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 798, 19 October 1929, Page 8

AID FOR AVIATION

LOCAL BODIES POWERS AMENDMENTS TO BILL THE SUN’S Parliamentary Reporter PARLIAMENT BLDGS., Friday. The legislation giving local bodies more power in the development of aviation is now' on the Statute Book, the Local Authorities Empowering (Aviation Encouragement) Bill having been put through all stages by the Legislative Council. A new clause has been added enabling local authorities to combine to establish an airdrome, the control to be vested in either or all of the combining bodies, as may be agreed on. Another new clause gives special authority for the Gisborne Borough Council, the Cook County Council, and the Waikohu County Council, to raise a joint special loan not exceeding £5,000 for the purpose of establishing an airdrome in the same way as the larger centres are allowed to do. A poll of the ratepayers will not be necessary. A minor amendment to the Bill is the defining of an airdrome to include a landing-place for aircraft, whether or not such landingplace has any buildings or other equipment on it. “I do not think these in any way affect the Bill adversw* said the Minister of Defence, the Lott. T. M. Wilford, when the Bill was ported back to the House of Renresei* tatives. The amendments vvere agreed to.