GIFT AEROPLANES.
NEW ZEALAND'S SHARE. (rBESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.'* WELLINGTON, Juno 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 establishing; aerial forces and thereby developing the aerial dofencos of the Empire Colonel Bottington, aerial adviser to the Now Zealand Government, interviewed to-day, stated that the value of the offer to each Dominion was at loast £600.000. Whether a scramble did or did not ensue for machines, it was obvious that the Dominion which pot in first would got the pick of the machines. Any Dominion desirous of obtaining them should therefore arrive at an early <W'sion. It oxpectcxl that two D.H. 4 S and Bristol fighters, which were being sent out to New Zealand, would bo shipped in tho first week in June.
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16546, 11 June 1919, Page 6
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