Sat. at 9, Sun. at 2.15 and 9 construction of additional Air Force stations and the maintenance of units distributed throughout England and Scotland at a total cost, in the coming financial year, of nearly £11,000,000. They will be used principally for defence training establishments and maintenance purposes required under the extended expansion scheme.
Provision of the new stations will also entail the planning and building of roads and the installation of electrical and water supply systems on a large scale.
The magnitude of the works programme now in hand is shown by the growth of the works directorate vote. In the last five years, it has risen from £1,762,000 to £16,322,000 a figure which is not far short of the total expenditure of the Royal Air Force in 1933.—Wireless through Reuter.
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