AIRPORT FOR AUCKLAND
“CONTROLLING BODY SHOULD BE FIRST MOVE” DEVONPORT OPINION Stating that the first move in the establishment of an airport for Auckland was to determine and set up a controlling bod>, tho Devonport Borough Council last evening instructed its delegates to move accordingly at the next meeting of local body delegates called to discuss the question of an Auckland airport. The council held that once a controlling body had been set up, the question of a suitable site, and that of finance, could then be gone into. “Otherwise it is a question of putting the cart before the horse,” agreed councillors. . sv , , Tho council considers that, in tne meantime, until air transport develops sufficiently to warrant a separate department of State, the Marine Department should be the controlling body—since New Zealand is essentially a marine country and the Marine Department, with its subsidiary harbour boards, is now controlling all our foreign commerce, and much of our local trade as well. The council expressed tho opinion that it was inevitable that flying boats would become a very important factor in New Zealand's air transport.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1056, 21 August 1930, Page 13
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185AIRPORT FOR AUCKLAND Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1056, 21 August 1930, Page 13
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