AERO CLUB INVESTIGATES HANGAR AT AIRPORT

Taupo Times, Volume XIV, Issue 57, 22 July 1965, Page 8

AERO CLUB INVESTIGATES HANGAR AT AIRPORT

Taupo Aero Club is to investigate the building of a hangar and clubhouse on the new Taupo airport site and is expected to plan a vigorous fund-raising campaign to this end. The club recommended this to the incoming committee at the annual meeting last night. It made this decision after hearing the recommendations of a special subcommittee set up to discuss arrangements between the Taupo and Rotorua clubs. At present Taupo does not own an aircraft, having sold its machine to Rotorua. The Rotorua club, however, keeps two aircraft at Taupo for the purposes of scenic flying and club work. Under this arrangement, Taupo club members become members of the Rotorua club and part of the subscription is remitted to Taupo. Rotorua now requires a five - year agreement on this arrangement with some variation of the

original conditions. The Taupo sub-committee made recommendations designed to keep the number of aircraft stationed at Taupo up to the maximum. These recommendations will now be negotiated with Rotorua. Members instanced two cases where they had been unhappy with the arrangement. One concerned a tourist scenic flight which had had to be made through an outside company, with consequent loss of revenue. The second concerned the flying scholarship in which the results were announced before the Taupo candidate was given his flight. "This was shady," said a member, Mr R. Johnston. The meeting passed the following resolution: — "That this meeting does not regard with favour the manner in which the recent flying scholarship was operated by the Rotorua Aero Club in this district."