ROYAL NEW ZEALAND AIR FORCE

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21133, 7 April 1934, Page 14

ROYAL NEW ZEALAND AIR FORCE

* -■-■ - PREPARATION FOR ARRIVAL OF NEW .MACHINES ■,l r;t'-- l'«IMUII"( TH'.KBC) WELLINGTON. April (i. It, was ascertained from the Minister for Defence, Ihe Hon. J. G. Cobbo, that Ihe men of the first batch of new enlistments to the Royal New Zealand Air Force under the Government's re-ccntlv-announced intention to provide increased air defence were requested 10 report lo the air force base at Hobsonville yesterday, in order to begin training in preparation for the arrival of Ihe service aircraft due approximately about the middle of the vear. These men, the Mini.ser .said, will represent the first selection from a large list of applications received in answer to advertisements which appeared throughout the Dominion in November last. Two other drafts will be selected during the year from the waiting list, and these will receive their initial disciplinary training at the Trentham military camp. It was explained that the first flight of bomber aircraft was to be stationed at Hobsonville. while the second would tie located at the Wigram Aerodrome, Chrislchurch. The personnel being enlisted this year were to man those two flights, and allowance was being marie for a proportional increase in Ihe workshop personnel at both stations.