LATE NEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 235, 4 October 1937, Page 3

LATE NEWS.

AIR DEPARTMENT. Legislation is to be introduced during the present session of Parliament to set up an Air Department to control both the a -r Force and civil aviation. :-i mak'ng this announcement this ar ~r"cci She Minister of Defence, the !-;o~.. r. iJo.k.s, said that in addition to " ■ Fo'-re Bill and the Army Board •'■ '', r-icntioied by him last weelf, he ?:'■;;,■: i to introduce an Air Department FS ' .v! :•:'-, would establish an Air De-:>r-r> '-.ent under the control of an air ■■ rretsry T"is Department, said the •*-:■!>. would control both the Air Fa-;» a"' c ; v.| aviation, and the air secre -v would be in charge of both ;." i-'"i~s.- — < Parliamentary Reporter.) SCHOOL CADET CORPS. Special Sections To Go. WELLINGTON, this day. The Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. •Jo«es, announced this afternoon that all •"•■•V .-!'•• schools had been advised of ••: (o he made in the training given i :» ;..-•-;.-! battalions ■vv,. 3 rp r.ur'irg out the specialists r ... ~,.., ~ so ;n „,, Jones. ''In the past •he best of the boys have been drafted .-■no specialist corps, but we do net think that snecial training in certain branches is necessary." )' 'o-ger.era! opinion is that such traino' l.ttle va'ua, and. it is felt that P." t:me involved can be better used for ohvsi'.a 1 or some oUnir form of training." Te fVt i nister said that the signalling and ! -s> aid riivibisns wjuld remain,