TECHNICAL TRAINING

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 200, 24 August 1945, Page 7

TECHNICAL TRAINING

SCHOOL TO BE TRANSFERRED P.A. NELSON, Thursday. The R.N.Z.A.F. technical training school at Nelson is to be transferred to Hobsonville, Auckland, as soon as it can be accommodated at the northern station. In the: meantime the general demobilisation of the station personnel is to proceed. Air headquarters could to-day give no definite date for the closing, but it is suggested that all but the maintenance staff will have been released or transferred to Hobsonville in a fortnight. The first men to be demobilised will be trainees who have only recently commenced their courses. Men who have got beyond a certain stage of their training and who wish to complete their course for rehabilitation purposes : will be given an opportunity to do so and those who have applied to join the. permanent force will also, continue at the SC lt o is expected that the releases now proposed* will bring the number at the school down to about 400.Jine technical training school was established at Rongotai, Wellington early in the wan transferring to Nelson in -June, 1943, when the Nelson station was vacated fjytae No. 2 General Reconnaissance Squadron..' ;