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the Minister for Air, Mr. Fairbairn, i cast. were planning to do was a colossal Poor Australia. he said, what they undertaking, but he was confident that the Royal Australian Air Force, with the assistance of hundreds of old war birds and thousands of young fledglings, would be equal to the task.
Mr. Fairbairn said that under the original Empire scheme advanced training in Canada would have cost Australia £51,300,000, placing a great additional strain upon the country's already very severe]: strained dollar exchange. "Under the altered proposal their training in Canada would cost only £11,400,000.
As a result, the 40,000,000 which would have been spent overseas would now be spent in Australia, thus increasing Australia's financial ability to play her part in democracy's struggle for existence, Because training in Australia was very much cheaper than training in Canada, owing to climatic conditions and the number of civil aerodromes developed prior to the outbreak of war, ihe total cost to Australia also would be considerably less.
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