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Five Other Training Centres Announced by - Tenders Called , one in Quebec, and another in tivestern .. The' wireless school at Trenton is to be greatly I~AVIr FGLINTON, TOO enlarged, the ministers stated . An armament school at Trenton for training instructors for the air Ry :2i. IL. A~',1VISTItONGr scheme staff has been established Ottawa, .Jan, 22 .-Sites selected and is now operating at half i-bs for the first seven air training ultimate strength . 112r, -Ropers an- schools at ~arhich flying instruction nounced the technical txainin will be given under the empire school at St. Thomas- has now 700 air training program were an- technical students and a staff of nounced today by Hon. Norman 300. This, he stated, was about one- Ropers . minister of defence, and third the ultimate capacity of the Hon. C. D. Howe, minister of school . transport . A flying instructors' school is Two of the schools will lae a~ being established at Trenton, and Malton, where the present airpoxl. two equipment depots for the air will be utilized, Tenders - have project have been organized at been called for construction of Ottawa and 1Vinnipeg. Two otha~ buildings there. The schools wtf will soon be opened at Moncton be for elementary instruction anc and Calgary. Mr. Ropers en: - for training of air observers. phasized the progressive nature cf These tivili be in addition to tha the air scheme . Further announce- non-flying initial training school a ment of additional schools v7rill be the Eglinton Hunt club, . made soon, he said . An elementary training school i; He explained an effort eras aeing to be established, immediately a made to have training centres open-. , Ont., an advanced flyinc ed,in every section of the Dominion . training school at Camp Borden, ai: Air fields axe already available ai elementary school at Fort William the seven locations revealed today and Poxt Arthur, an air observe9 and buildings will be started im- scixool at Bdmonton, and an elemen~ mediately to house the staff, stu- tary instruction institution at Wind" dents and equipment . sor Mills, Que, The ministers stated that the or- ganization and executive command of the air training project in Can- ada will be definitely entrusted to the. Royal Canadian Air Forae. Air Vice-Marshal Croi1 will be the di- recting head of the air training plan in~ Canada, they emphasized. They announced the appointment of B. ~, Roberts of Ottawa as financial ad- ministrator of the training plan. Wireless Schools, Too Three large wireless schools are to be inaugurated immediately in addition to the one now operating at Trenton. They will have a capa- city of 1,000 pupils each and will turn out over 10,000 air wireless operators a year. The course is i6 weeks. One of the schools will be in