FLYING SCHOOL
IN OPERATION IN AUGUST DELAY IN ERECTION OF BUILDING It is expected that the flying instructors' school at Tauranga will be in active operation toward the end of August. When work is completed, instructional work now being done at Hobsonville will be transferred to Tauranga. The Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones, stated in Wellington, that, since his announcement of the Government's decision to establish a school at Tauranga, there had been some unavoidable delay in the erection of the necessary buildings. It was not anticipated that they would he finished until about the middle of August. "The Air Department," continued the Minister, "hopes to be able to send a small maintenance party to Tauranga early in August, and has hopes that the school will be in active operation toward the end of that month." The MinisT&i- referred to the excellent aerodrome available at Tan-' ranga and to the assistance given ! y the Borough Council to the Works Department. The, training of more flying instructors would enable more of the present instructors to be released for overseas service.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 123, 30 June 1941, Page 5
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181FLYING SCHOOL Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 123, 30 June 1941, Page 5
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