GIFT AEROPLANES.
WELLiNGTON, June 10!
With reference to the cable announcement that the British Government has decided to offer 100 aeroplanes to any dominion requiring them, with the object of assisting the dominions in, aerial forces and thereby developing the aerial defences of tho Empire, Colonel Bettington, aerial adviser to the New Zealand Government, interviewee^ to-day, stated that the value of the offer to each dominion wae at least £600,000. Whether, a scramble did or did not ensue for machines, it was obvious.that the dolpinion which got in first would 'fit-fc the pick of tho machines. Any doiminion desirous of obtaining them should therefore arrive at an early decision. It was expected that two "D.H. 4 S." and Bristol fighters, which were being sent out to New Zealand, would be ahipped tho first week in June.; /•
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXIX, Issue 9631, 11 June 1919, Page 5
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