MAJOR ISITT IN NAPIER
INSPECTION OF INNER HARBOUR POTENTIAL FLYING BOAT BASE. A comprehensive survey of the lnner barbour from the point of view of its suitability for a seaplane or flying boat base was this morning carried out by Major L. M. Isitt, of the Defence Department, accompanied by Messrs N. F. Harston, E. N. H. Stewart and S. H. Hole, of the Napier Aero Club. Major Isitt was taken for an extensive tour of the basin in a launch kindly loaned by Mr Hole and members of the party stated that he seemed very favourably impressed with all that be saw. Interviewed this afternoon, Major Isitt declined to make any statement, but told a Daily Telegraph reporter that he was making an immediate report on his observatious to the Minister of Defence. This afternoon he met His Worship the Mayor, Mr J. Vigor Brown, Mr W. E. Barnard, M.P., and members of the Napier Aero Club, when an informal discussion on aviation took place. Later in the afternoon Major Isitt carried out an inspection of the Hawke's Bay Aero Club's aerodrome at Longlands. He leaves this evening by car for Gisborne.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 98, 28 May 1929, Page 9
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193MAJOR ISITT IN NAPIER Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 58, Issue 98, 28 May 1929, Page 9
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