AVIATION DEVELOPMENT
A PROBABLE APPOINTMENT
The appointment at some future date of a New Zealand Air Force officer for liaison duties in England was foreshadowed by the Prime Minister (Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr. Coates said that for two years a senior Air Force officer had been, stationed in England with tlie object of collecting information concerning military and commercial aviation, and upon his return he was entrusted with the formulation of a scheme, now well known, which provided for air bases at Wellington and Auckland and the types of machines to be obtained for service in New Zealand. For some time consideration had been given to the question of stationing a liaison officer in Britain, but the immediate concern was that of cost. He believed, however, that tlie Minister of Defence had in mind, when suitable opportunity offered, tlie making of such an appointment
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 261, 4 August 1928, Page 8
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152AVIATION DEVELOPMENT Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 261, 4 August 1928, Page 8
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