BRITAIN'S GIFT MACHINES.

Marlborough Express, Volume LIII, Issue 167, 11 June 1919, Page 5

BRITAIN'S GIFT MACHINES.

' WELMNGTON, June TO. Tin.-reference to- tlie cable announcement that the . British (Government 'had decided to tfffer one hundred aeroplanes to liny Dominioiii reauirmg them, yfitfi tlie object of assisting the Dominions to establish aerial forces and thereby derelop tiie aerial defences of tl)e Empire, Colonel Bettington, Aerial Adviser to the New 'Zealand Govern.'nent, interviewed. today,, stated that the value of the offer to each Dominion was worth at least •£600,000. "Whether a- scramble did ■or did not ensuo for the machines it was obvious that the Dominion which ■got in first would get the pick of the 'inacliin.es. Any Dominion desirous of obtaining them Should tlierefore ar-, rh'e at an early decision. He expect--ed that the two DH4 machines and flic 'Bristol 'fighters being sent out to "NeAV Zealand would be shipped duriing the'first week in July.