AIR TRAINING IN CANADA

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26204, 30 August 1950, Page 7

AIR TRAINING IN CANADA

COURSES FOR R.A.F. AIR CREWS

NAVIGATORS AND PILOTS FROM ENGLAND

(Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 29. Royal Air Force pilots and navigators are to be trained by the Royal Canadian Air Force in Canada, starting next January. The Air Minister (Mr Arthur Henderson) announcing this added that pilots in groups of 25 will undergo a six weeks’ training course.

Similar arrangements are being worked out for navigators. The full scheme will provide training for 200 Royal Air Force crews in Canada next year.

The new scheme is an extension of the present one under which the Royal Canadian Air Force is already training air crews of North Atlantic Treaty nations.

“I wish to exnress my warm appreciation of this action on the part of the Government of Canada,” said Mr Henderson.

In Ottawa last night the Canadian Defence Minister (Mr Brooke Claxton) announced that Canada will add 350 fighter planes to its air force and revive its wartime schools to train British pilots, navigators and other airmen.

Mr Brooke Claxton said that Canada has bought 100 Mustang fighters from the United States as a stop-gap measure to bolster the Air Force at once and will buy 250 more jet fighters.

The Foreign Secretary (Mr Ernest Bevin) the Argentine Ambassador yesterday that Britain will not pay more £9o a ton for Argentine meat, states the “Daily Express.” The Argentine is demanding a minimum of £9O a ton. witji progressively upward payments for quality. Mr Bevin said that, taking quality into account, Britain was paying more for Argentine meat than New Zealand meat.

He also told the Ambassador (Mr Carlos A. Hogan) that Britain wants settled private debts totalling £20,000,000 owed by the Argentine to Britons.

The Argentine cut off all meat shipments to Britain on July 22 after a deadlock over prides.