GROWING AIR STREINGTH
AUSTRALIA'S CONTRIBUTION
(Ree. 10.5:5 a.m.) RUGBY, July 17. Australians great and growing contribution to Imperial air strength is underlined by the opening this month, of four new schools for training air crews in Australia. This was announced by the Minister for Air (Mr McEwenl. The latest site selected is for a bombing and gunnerv school in Victoria at a cost of £;300,000. A school for training pilots, observers, wireless personnel, and gunners under the Empire air training scheme is to be established in Gippsland, Victoria at a cost of £-2r,0.000.
Expenditure on the R.A.A.F. during the present financial year, states the Dominions Office, will exceed £1,000,000 a week. Over 191.760 applications for enlistment have been received.—Official Wireless.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 194, 18 July 1941, Page 5
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