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DEFENCE MINISTER
STAYS HERE
ARRIVAL OF FLYING-BOATS
It was the intention of the Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones) to leave for Auckland today to welcome the officers and officials arriving in New Zealand by the trans-Tasman flying-boat Aotearoa and the PanAmerican Airways Boeing Clipper, but owing to the international position his official duties here make it impossible for him to make the trip.
The Minister said today that GroupCaptain T. M. Wilkes, Controller of Civil Aviation, would represent the Government on the arrival of the flying-boats, together with Mr. C. A. Furlong, of the Department of Internal Affairs. No official functions, he said, would be held. These would take place when the mail services were inaugurated on both routes!
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 49, 26 August 1939, Page 10
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