Nelson Training School Moved To Hobsonville
(PA.) NELSON. This Day. The R.N Z.A.F. technical training school at Nelson is to be transferred to Hobsonville. Auckland, as soon as it can be accommodated at the northern station. In the meantime the general demobilisation of the station personnel is to proceed. Air headquarters could give no definite date for the closing, but it is suggested that all but the maintenance staff will have been released or transferred to Hoi>sonville in a fortnight. 'the first men to b<* demobilised will be trainees 1 who have only recently commenced their courses. Men who have got beyond a certain stage of their training, and who wish to complete their course for rehabilitation purposes, will be given an opportunity to do so. and those who have applied '.o join the permanent force will also continue at the school. It is expected that the releases now proposed will bring the number at lhe school down to about 400. The technical training school was established at Rongoiai, Wei lmgtcn. early in the war. transferring lo Nelson in June. 1943, when the Nelson station was vacated by the No. 2 General Reconnaissance Squadron.
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Northern Advocate, 24 August 1945, Page 2
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