HALF-MILLION WASTED

Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 119, 20 May 1918, Page 6

HALF-MILLION WASTED

ON SCOTCH AERIAL GUNNERY SCHOOL. I Received 11.35 a.m.) LONDON, May 19. The report of the Select Committee on National Expenditure shows that after half a million sterling had been expended in preparatory work establishing an instructional school of aerial gunnery at Loch Doon, Ayrshire, the project was abandoned because climatic conditions in the locality were unfavourable to flying, also because it was necessary to drain a large bog to make an aerodrome (A. and N.Z. fable.)