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EMPIRE AIR TRAINING SCHEME GREAT EXPANSION ANNOUNCED FORCE OF 35,000 AIRMEN A YEAR. ALL PLANES REQUIRED NOW UNDER CONTRACT. By Telegraph-Press Association—Copyright. OTTAWA, January 22. The Minister of Defence, Mr Rogers, announced that the training establishments under the Empire air scheme had been increased by 13 to 71, capable of producing 35,000 pilots, gunners and observers a year. He added that the United Kingdom, Australian and New Zealand Governments had agreed that Mr B. J. Roberts, former Commissioner of the National Harbours Board, should supervise the expenditure. It is anticipated that 90,000,000 dollars will be spent by September. It is announced that Air ViceMarshal George Mitchell Croil has been appointed chief executive officer under Air Marshal Brooke Popham. He revealed that the recruiting of the ground staff was proceeding at the rate of 300 a week. General recruiting will begin shortly. Twenty-five thousand have already applied to join the overseas force.
In a speech in Ottawa, the Canadian Minister of Transport, Mr Clarence D. Howe, said that more than 4000 planes had been ordered for the scheme, a radio report states. Simutaneously the Minister of Finance, Mr Rogers, said that all the planes required were now under contract. The Canadian R.A.F. had sufficient instructors to start the training, and shortly 200 airmen of various ranks and grades would come to Canada from England. Mr Rogers also announced the location of seven new schools. In addition there would be three wireless schools, each with accommodation for 1000 students.
The Secretary of the United States Treasury, Mr Morganthau, has announced that at the request of President Roosevelt, it had been decided to coordinate Allied and American purchases of planes in the United States. Mr Morgenlhau said he saw no danger involved in the liquidation of British-owned securities in the United States to supply dollar exchange to finance the Allied war purchases.—By radio.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1940, Page 5
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