INSPECTION OF LAND

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1938, Page 8

INSPECTION OF LAND

MORTGAGE COMMISSION USES PLANE. IN MARLBOROUGH HILL COUNTRY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. The use of the aeroplane in carrying out inspections of backblock hill country were demonstrated this morning when the Marlborough Aero Club’s Waco cabin machine was chartered by the Marlborough No 2 Adjustment Commission for the purpose of examining several properties in the Sound.district. In the ordinary course, visits to the areas concerned by launch and on foot would have occupied at least two days, but by air over 200 miles were covered in one hour forty-five minutes and a comprehensive investigation was made. The members of the commission, Messrs G. M. Spence, A. R. Graham, and E. Reid, piloted by Mr E. F. HoldaWay, took off from Blenheim and flew over the Queen Charlotte, Pelorus and Kenepuru Sounds, circling the properties several times at a low altitude. From the air they found it possible to gain a very much better idea of the class of country comprised in the properties involved than would have been possible by clambering over them on foot. The distinction between i the different classes of land, was very I marked. One thins? that unfavourably j impressed the commission was the evi- j dence of extensive slipping and erosion | on some parts of the Sounds country that have been denuded,of bush.