NO DIFFERENCES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 November 1939, Page 5

NO DIFFERENCES

OVER COST OF EMPIRE AIR TRAINING STATEMENT BY LORD RIVERDALE IMPRESSIVE RECRUITING FIGURES. SOME NEW ZEALAND PUPILS GOING TO EGYPT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, November 15. The leader of lhe British Air Mission in Ottawa. Lord Riverdale, today announced : “Throng'll lhe help of lhe Royal Canadian Air Force we are reaching' agreement in a |)heiiomena lly short time. I plan to be home at Christmas. “There are no differences of opinion over the sharing of the costs of the scheme. Anything Britain undertakes she will ultimately be responsible for. Of course, there must be discussions regarding what we will send to Canada. In order to get away from the question of dollars and cents, we will supply machinery, aircraft and other goods. “It will take time working these things into a picture, but our negotiations are perfectly businesslike and normal. We have had excellent advice from the Canadian Government, and that goes also for New Zealand and Australia." The system of training for the R.A.F. has now been extended on an Empirewide scale, (states a British Official Wireless message). Apart from the main centre in Canada, where 2000 recruits are now training, with a waiting list of between 10.000 and 15,000 training stations for Indian Air Force pilots are opening in India, where native princes have given large sums for the development of air defence. The Nizam of Hyderabad is financing an entire air force squadron. An Indian Air Force volunteer reserve is to be created. Flights will be established at Karachi. Bombay, Madras. Calcutta, and Delhi. The flights will be primarily for coast defence duties in India. The establishment of these flights is to be a permanent and not an emergency measure. Pilots are also being instructed in Irak, where fuel is immediately available, and numbers of pupils from Australia and New Zealand will be trained in Egypt under exceptionally favourable climatic conditions.