N.Z. AIRMEN IN TIME OF WAR

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 151, 29 June 1939, Page 11

N.Z. AIRMEN IN TIME OF WAR

1300 Annually To Go Overseas

NEW AGREEMENT

'PLANE FACTORIES FOR DOMINION

BIG TRAINING SCHEME

(British Official Wireless.—Rec. 12 noon.) RUGBY, June 28. Comm!ln. S fk 'V*** °t St * te A " annou "«d i" the House of ZrZZn t com P'ete agreement had been reached with New Zealand. "commendation of the recent Air Mission to New The recommendations had two inter-related aims—first the of" " 1 sea,andJ5 ea,and J ? f manuf actU"ng capacity for produc Dom^Lon C with an ? eC ° nd, y- expansion of training facilities in the Dominion with a view to increasing the output of fully-trained and" war?' 80 "" A " F ° rces of fn peace With this end in view the mission recommended: (1 ) That New Zealand should place an immediate order tor training aircraft to be manufactured in New Zealand by De Havilland, Company, which would Cl l a ur u con JP an y to Proceed at once with the establishment of an aircraft factory in the Dominion. (2> rW ° f flyi " g trai " ing facilities in COnneCti °" Sir Kingsley Wood explained that there had been in operation for some time a scheme under which RwJ Air °Fo?c° < m ' n Tk P , b " n ,rain<!d annuall >' <°' w 1J V*? a l dd,tl ° n l al training facilities now to be established would enable the number to be raised to 220 a vear in pe.c. h™ ,„d would put New Zealand in a po, 1 1io„ 1 o ,"nd '"a " venl War " ol le » 'l>an 1 300 fully-trained pilots and other flying personnel annually. "ainea pilots both «r^ ea,and intima s ed . that 9he had decided to implement both of these recommendations at once and by way of contriY° 8t , ? v ° lved . ,n these two important projects Britain training "scheme! ™ * *« -»« ">e e .1 "^ e Minister concluded by expressing appreciation of the Mid beTmoT 6 thu « B>ven by New Zealand which would, he •aid, be a most valuable contribution to Imperial defence.

Jones expressed the thanks of the Government to Sir H»r<lm" V r f por,cr ' colleagues lor their v„l„.ble work on lE™",Mi.lL *" L * Ve * and hi »