TRAINING BEGINS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20274, 7 April 1934, Page 11

TRAINING BEGINS.

New Enlistments for Air Force. INCREASED PERSONNEL. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 6 It was ascertained from the Minister of Defence (the Hon J. G. Cobhe) that 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 to report to the Air Force base at Hobsonville yesterday, in order to commence training in preparation for the arrival of service aircraft which are due approximately about the middle of the year These men, the Minister said, represented 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 would be selected'during the year from the waiting list and these would receive their initial disciplinary training at Trentham military camp. It was explained that the first flight of bomber aircraft was to be stationed at Hobsonville, while the second would be located at Wigram Aerodrome, Christchurch. The personnel being enlisted this year were to man those two flights and allowance wa' being made for a proportional increase in the workshop personnel at both stations.