THE AIR FORCE
NEW ENLISTMENTS. EXPLANATION BY MINISTER. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, April 6. It was ascertained from, the Minister of Defence (the Hon. J. G. Cobbe), 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 an increased air defence were requested to report to the Air Force base at Hobsonville 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 said, represent the first selection from the large list of applications received in answer to advertisements which appeared throughout the Dominion in November last. Two other drafts would be selected during the year from the waiting list and these would receive an initial disciplinary training at the Trentham Military Camp. It was explained by the Minister that the first flight of bomber aircraft was to be stationed at Hobsonville, while the second would be located at the Wigram Aerodrome, Christchurch. The personnel being enlisted this year were to man those two flights and allowance ■was being made for a proportional increase in the workshop personnel at both stations.
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Southland Times, Issue 22293, 7 April 1934, Page 6
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