AIRMEN FOR SERVICE
NEW ZEALAND TO SEND 1300 ANNUALLY. CANADIAN TRAINING SCHEME. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, November 20. With the buildings erected and those in course of erection, and the plant available. New Zealand will be able to fulfil its promise to Great Britain to send 1300 pilots, observers, and airgunners annually, the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones, said yesterday. The first batch of pilots under the scheme announced some time before the outbreak of war passed out of the Royal New Zealand Air Force Training School at Wigram yesterday, the Minister meeting the pilots personally. The possibility, Mr Jones said in an interview, was that the Empire scheme now being devised in Canada might make a big alteration to the scheme. "We promised to have 21 of the 650 pilots for the year ready in November and they are ready,” said the Minister. “The present proposal is to train pilots for three months in New Zealand before sending them to England to finish off; but the discussions that have taken place in Canada may modify that. The extent to which pilots will in future receive training in New Zealand is questionable.” There was an ample flow of recruits, for the Air Force, the Minister stated.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1939, Page 4
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