INCREASED PERSONNEL
| DOMINION AIR FORCE NE W RECRUITS REPORT (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. It has been ascertained from the Minister of Defence that the men of the first, batch of new enlistments to the Royal New Zealand Air Force under the Government’s recently announced intention to provide increased air defence were requested 1 to report to the Air Force base at Hobsouville yesterday in order to commence training in preparation for the arrival of the service aircraft due approximately about the middle of the year. “These men,” the Minister stated, “represent the first selection from a large 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 initial disciplinary training at Trentluvm military camp.” It is explained that the first flight of the bomber aircraft is to be stationed at Hobsouville, while the second vvqjP be located at Wigram aerodrome, Christchurch. The personnel being enlisted this year are to man those two flights, and allowance is being made for a proportional increase in the workshop personnel at both stations.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18366, 7 April 1934, Page 14
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194INCREASED PERSONNEL Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18366, 7 April 1934, Page 14
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