Additional Recruits

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 47, 25 February 1939, Page 5

Additional Recruits

SCHOOL OF INSTRUCTION With the completion of the Ohakea and Whenuapai stations the Wigram aerodrome will bo used largely as a training centre and Hobsonville as a repair and stores base. The present programme at Hobsonville is modelled mainly on the role that it is to follow under the new air defence scheme. It was announced in October of last year that the creation of tho new Air Force stations and the ordering of further modern aircraft to strengthen the Dominion’s defences necessitated the enlistment of approximately 200 additional young men in the Royal New Zealand Air Force. Under the enlistment scheme 63 recruits, who have already been chosen, Will start at Holsonville on February 1 and will attend a school of instruction. These men haw been recruited from various parts oi New Zealand. The erection of a hall and other facilities for recreation is In conformity with a promise made by the Minister of Defence, Hon. F. Jones, in the House of Representatives last {September, that additional facilities would be provided as soon as possible. The Minister then stated that as a result of an investigation as to why a number of airmen had taken their discharge at Hobsonville it was found that one of the contributing factors was the lack af amenities, a defect due to difli culties inherent in a fcrce that had been rapidly expanded.