(1) Building up the New Zealand Air Force for Home defence and for training of pilots. A training aeroplane, manned by instructor and pupil, about to take off at one of the training centres established since the outbreak of war. (2) A vital factor in the modern army is the motor cycle corps. From the restricted functions of despatch carrying, its uses have been developed to include swift transport from place to place of light arms units. Illustration shows a member of a Lewis gun section with standard equipment. (3) The first line of defence in the New Zealand Air Force is made up of large bomber squadrons, the type adopted being the twin-engined Vickers-Wellingtons, which are being supplied to the New Zealand Government by Great Britain. A total of thirty of these machines has been ordered for use in New Zealand. (4) Typical of the machine era in modern warfare is this mechanised column on the march, led by armoured Br en gun carriers, one of the most recent developments in the New Zealand, forces. In the past few months great advances have been made in the building up of this branch of the army. (5) A mobile "anti-aircraft unit undergoing training. Batteries1 of this type stand guard over important ports in the Dominion. (6) Men of the First Echelon of the Second New Zealand Forced receiving instruction in the use of the Vickers machine-gun. (7) A mechanised battery of field artillery moving up into firing position. The powerful wagons which now move the heavy guns swiftly and easily from place to place give the batteries a mobility of great advantage in attack or defence. (8) H.M.S. Leander, one of the cruisers of the New Zealand Squadron, and a sister ship to H.M.S. Achilles, which played a heroic part in the battle with the German pocket battleship, Graf von Spee, in the South Atlantic, one of the first major naval actions in the war.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24022, 22 January 1940, Page 21 (Supplement)

(1) Building up the New Zealand Air Force for Home defence and for training of pilots. A training aeroplane, manned by instructor and pupil, about to take off at one of the training centres established since the outbreak of war. (2) A vital factor in the modern army is the motor cycle corps. From the restricted functions of despatch carrying, its uses have been developed to include swift transport from place to place of light arms units. Illustration shows a member of a Lewis gun section with standard equipment. (3) The first line of defence in the New Zealand Air Force is made up of large bomber squadrons, the type adopted being the twin-engined Vickers-Wellingtons, which are being supplied to the New Zealand Government by Great Britain. A total of thirty of these machines has been ordered for use in New Zealand.

(4) Typical of the machine era in modern warfare is this mechanised column on the march, led by armoured Br en gun carriers, one of the most recent developments in the New Zealand, forces. In the past few months great advances have been made in the building up of this branch of the army. (5) A mobile "anti-aircraft unit undergoing training. Batteries 1 of this type stand guard over important ports in the Dominion. (6) Men of the First Echelon of the Second New Zealand Forced receiving instruction in the use of the Vickers machine-gun. (7) A mechanised battery of field artillery moving up into firing position. The powerful wagons which now move the heavy guns swiftly and easily from place to place give the batteries a mobility of great advantage in attack or defence. (8) H.M.S. Leander, one of the cruisers of the New Zealand Squadron, and a sister ship to H.M.S. Achilles, which played a heroic part in the battle with the German pocket battleship, Graf von Spee, in the South Atlantic, one of the first major naval actions in the war.