AIR TRAINING
EXPANSION IN CANADA CONSTRUCTION OF SHIPS. MANY VESSELS ALREADY LAUNCHED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 13. An increase of 4,000,000 dollars in the cost of the British Commonwealth Air Training scheme was disclosed today with an announcement that the revised estimate is placed at 1,000,600,000 dollars, of which Canada will provide 583,000,000 dollars. Some details of the big shipbuilding programme which is to be undertaken by the Dominion are also disclosed and they show that the programme includes 70 corvettes, 50 mine-sweepers and 20 merchant vessels as well as a large number of small craft. The Canadian shipyards have already launched 45 corvettes and 13 mine-sweepers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1941, Page 5
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108AIR TRAINING Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1941, Page 5
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