DEFENCE ECONOMIES.
Even though flying is becoming easier year by year, for defence purposes it is highly specialised, and the pilots of the Dominion’s Air Force need their few days of training each year to keep in touch with the latest developments, and) also, to keep themselves moderately fresh in 'the handling of machines. The Air Force, h/ds. been; reorganised in’ ;>uch a way j now ' that the benefits of,/ti aining will be" even more apparent than they weye in .the- past, and it is unthinkable that the . Government should/, 5 at this stage refuge to pay 'for the rie/xt series of courses.'Mr Cobbe and liik'-.adyisers have been unwise in scrapping.;th;e summer militarv camps for those fyho wish to attend them, but it will be; adding folly to folly if the Air Force,’ tpo, is to be hit by an economy campaign/that is being carried much too far.—Christchurch “Sun.” /’•;//: . ► .
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Hokitika Guardian, 8 December 1930, Page 7
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149DEFENCE ECONOMIES. Hokitika Guardian, 8 December 1930, Page 7
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