LATE NEWS N.Z. AID IN DEFENCE OF HONG KONG
WELLINGTON, This Day (P.A.). —The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, announced in the House of Representatives today that at the request of the United Kingdom Government New Zealand had agreed to provide one Dakota transport flight to assist and relieve the United Kingdom Air Force in Hong Kong. This flight, consisting, of three Dakota aircraft, and 57 officers and airmen will be based at Singapore and employed on transport duties between there and Hong Kong. Personnel are being selected and trained and are expected to leave for Singapore early next month. Mr Fraser said that discussions had .also’ taken place with the British authorities regarding other forms of assistance and arrangements were being made to send three New Zealand frigates to Hong Kong, if required.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 August 1949, Page 5
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