AIR DEFENCE
ROYAL N.Z. FORCE MEN COMMENCE TRAINING. [ Per Press Association. ] WELLINGTON, April 6. It was ascertained from tho Minister of Defence, 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 increased air defence, were requested to report to tho air force base at Hobsonville yesterday in order to commence training ii> preparation for the arrival of service aircraft due approximately about the middle of the year. “These men,” the Minister stated, “represent tho 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 Trcntham military camp.” It was explained that the first flight of momber aircraft was to be stationed at Hobsonville, while tho second would bo located at 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 workshop personnel at both stations.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 82, 7 April 1934, Page 10
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192AIR DEFENCE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 82, 7 April 1934, Page 10
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