AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN
26,000 TO BE TRAINED (United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyng-h: SYDNEY, Dec. 16 The Prime Minister, Mr R. G. Menzies, officially announced that Australia had undertaken to provide 26,000 men—lo,4oo pilots and 15,600 observers, wireless operators and gunners—as an initial contribution to the Empire air scheme. Most of the men would be trained in Australia. This adjustment of the original, scheme under which most of the men were to have been trained in Canada was made on the representations of the Commonwealth Government, which emphasised the value that participation in the scheme would be to Australia’s security if the greater part of the training were completed within the Commonwealth. Mr Menzies revealed that Britain would make substantial contributions to Australia’s scheme in finance, aircraft and instructors. The total cost of the scheme to Australia within the next three years was estimated to be not less than £50,000,000 (Austral-
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20990, 18 December 1939, Page 4
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149AUSTRALIAN AIRMEN Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20990, 18 December 1939, Page 4
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