BOMBING PLANES
FOURTH OF FIVE ORDERED ARRIVES [Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, November 24. The fourth of the five Airspeed Oxford monoplanes acquired for the Royal New Zealand Air Force has arrived at Auckland in the Port Huon, and it will be unloaded to-morrow and conveyed by barge to Hobsonville air base for assembly and testing. The work at Hobsonville" will take about six days, and the machine will then be flown to the Wigram aerodrome, where throe other Oxfords of the order are now in service. The latest Oxford monopmne to arrive is intended, like the others at Wigram, for bombing purposes. The fifth Oxford is due to arrive in Auckland before Christmas, and it is to be equipped for air reconnaissance photographic work. ' \
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Evening Star, Issue 23124, 25 November 1938, Page 14
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125BOMBING PLANES Evening Star, Issue 23124, 25 November 1938, Page 14
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