EXTENDED TO 1945

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 May 1942, Page 3

EXTENDED TO 1945

EMPIRE AIR TRAINING PLAN ANNOUNCEMENT IN OTTAWA. NEW AGREEMENT NEGOTIATED. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) OTTAWA, May 26. The Air Minister, Mr Pow- ■ er, and the British Undersecretary for Air, Captain Balfour, stated that a new agreement is being negotiated to extend the life of the British Commonwealth training plan for two years till March, 1945/ * Under the new plan, Canada will have a larger quota of trained men for home defence. Mr Power said that Australia, New Zealand, Britain and Canada will participate in the new agreement, but the terms of the New Zealand and Australian participation are not yet announced. FULL SUPPORT GIVEN BY NEW ZEALAND. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “The New Zealand Government instructed its representative at the joint air training conference in Canada to support the extension of the scheme,” said the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, when the above cablegram was referred to him last night. Mr Fraser added that New Zealand had been represented at the conference by the New Zealand Minister to Canada, Mr Langstone. Associated with Mr Langstone as New Zealand representatives were Air Commodore L. M. Isitt, air attache at the New Zealand Legation in Washington, and Wing Commander T. W. White, E.D., New Zealand liaison officer at the Air Ministry, Ottawa, who was also the New Zealand representative in Canada on the joint air training board.