FAIREY BOMBERS
SHIPMENT DUE NEXT MONTH AUCKLAND. April 18. A shipment of fighting aeroplanes from the Royal Air Force depots in Egypt for the New Zealand Government will now be brought to Auckland by the steamer Port Sydney due on May 16. The motor ship Orari was reported to have left London recently for Egypt to lift the machines, but as a result of engine trouble she has been replaced. The Port Sydney left London on April 7 in ballast for an Egyptian port. It has been officially announced that Fairey Gordon machines will be sent from Egypt. Two-seater medium range bombers, they will be assembled at the Hobsonville Air Base.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21324, 19 April 1939, Page 14
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