FLYING BOAT BASE
CONSTRUCTION AT DURBAN. The first steps have been taken in connection with Durban’s permanent flying boat base and the preparation of a site for the floating dock, which is expected to arrive from England f in November. Durban is the terminus of the mail service with Europe carried by Imperial Airways flying boat. It is expected that approximately £120,000 will be spent on the flying boat base, the floating dock site, and a repair scheme in the same locality. The flying boat base and hangar will take about £60,000.
Spoil dredged and excavated is to be used in the land reclamation necessary for the hangars and workshops, and also to provide a mole about 650 ft. long. Flying boat passengers will land on a jetty putting out from this mole, to which a roadway 30ft. wide will lead.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1938, Page 3
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