From the Maitland Mercury report:
Luskintyre Aviation Flying Museum approached Maitland City Council to make a donation to its efforts to erect a 1920s style observation control tower at the airfield to remember Nancy Bird-Walton.
A report to the council’s meeting on Tuesday recommended the council decline to make a donation because the application did not meet the guidelines of a council policy.
But Cr Lisa Tierney, who is also gathering support for a statue of Australia’s first prime minister, Edmund Barton to be erected in Maitland, moved that the council get involved in the project to honour a part of Australia’s – and Maitland’s – history.
Full article by Briony Snedden available at Maitland Mercury, 24/09/2009.
