AIR TRAINING
ESTABLISHMENT OF STATION AT WERAROA GROUND WORK & RECRUIT DEPOT. PROVISION FOR FIVE HUNDRED y MEN. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The Minister of Defence (Mr Jones) announced today that the Government had approved the establishment of an Air Force station at Weraroa, on the property owned by the Education Department and used as a boys’ training farm, for the purpose of a ground training school and a recruit depot for the Royal New Zealand Air Force. The Minister added that preparations were already under way to mhke the necessary alterations in the existing buildings at Weraroa and to provide additional accommodation. Within a few months, a very large number of airmen will be under training at Weraroa, and it is probable that the maximum number that will be at the station will be in the vicinity of five hundred. It is hoped to post men to Weraroa early this month.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1939, Page 6
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153AIR TRAINING Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1939, Page 6
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