AIR DEFENCES
NEED FOR CO-OPERATION AUSTRALIA AND SINGAPORE [from our own correspondent] > - SINGAPORE, May 24 "There must be close co-operation fcetween the air defences of Australia and Singapore," declared Sir Leslie Wilson, for five years Governor of Queensland, in an interview when he arrived at Singapore by Qantas airliner to join the liner Ranpura for London, on six months' leave. "It is no secret that Australia plans to push ahead her air defences as fast as possible," he said. "Civil aviation, too, has made rapid progress in the Commonwealth. All the important centres are now linked by air," Sir Leslie was accompanied by Lady Wilson, Lieutenant R. C. de Mussenden Leathes, His Excellency's aide de camp, and Mr. A. J. L. McDonnell, • private secretary. During the three days they were in Singapore they 6tayed at a seaside hotel, the Governor of the Straits Settlements, Sir Shenton Thomas, being absent at Kuala Lumpur, the capital of the Federated Malay States.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22777, 10 July 1937, Page 12
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