THE AIR FORCE
POLICY WITH ENLISTMENTS. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 6. In a. statement issued to-day the Minister of Defence (Hon. J. G. Cobbe) said the. first batch of new enlistments to the Royal New Zealand Air Force under the Government’s recently announced plan to provide increased air defence were requested to report to the Air Force base at Hobsonville on Thursday in order to commence training i.u preparation for the arrival of service aircraft due approximately about the middle of the year. “These men,” the Minister stated, “represent the first selection from a largo list of applications received in answer to advertisements which appeared throughout the Dominion in November last. Two other drafts will be selected during the year from the waiting list and these will receive their initial disciplinary training at the Trentham military camp.” It was explained that the first flight of bomber aircraft was to be stationed at Hobsonville and the second at Wigram Aerodrome, Christchurch. The personnel being enlisted this yean were to man those two flights and to allow for a proportional increase in the workshop personnel at both stations.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 109, 7 April 1934, Page 2
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