AIR RECONNAISSANCE
GENERAL SQUADRON FORMATION PROPOSED NELSON-MARLBOROUGH (Per Press Associution.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Government has decided to establish a general air reconnaissance squadron ot three flights in the Nelson-Marlborough district. The headquarters unit and two flights will be established at the Nelson aerodrome and one flight at Omaka aerodrome, Blenheim. The aerodromes already developed will be used, but the civil services will not be interfered with. The arrangement is for the duration of the war only. The headquarters and first flight will join at Nelson in January. The plan will necessitate considerable buildings for technical services and personnel and preliminary work at Nelson is already in hand. The buildings will include two new hangars and subsidiary buildings at Nelson, and onehangar and other buildings at Blenheim.
The personnel at Nelson will number 220, who at first will be accommodated in tents of the public works camp pattern, and at Blenheim 90, for whom buildings will be erected.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20377, 14 October 1940, Page 11
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158AIR RECONNAISSANCE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20377, 14 October 1940, Page 11
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