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15the time available to cover the other Dominions in any detail. Like Australia the other dominions received generous Imperial Gifts. Canada utilised its aircraft to form the Canadian Air Force, later the RCAF, initially on a militia basis. The Air Force initially had additional responsibility for civil aviation and devoted much of the resources to that end. Nevertheless, the Gift %u2018did provide the [Canadian] Air Board with the means of equipping a military training organization %u2026%u201921 It was not until the end of the decade that the RCAF purchased any other military aircraft. The CAF%u2019s official regulations were also adapted from the RAF%u2019s, and Air8Vice Marshal Gwatkin, the Inspector General, corresponded with Trenchard, and received moral support and advice in the same manner as Williams.22 RCAF officers also attended the RAF Staff College, which gave them an intellectual underpinning which a service of such modest size could not have sustained, and which was to stand them in good stead in the 1930s. Indeed both the Canadian Government and its air service recognised that the fate of the RCAF was intimately bound up with that of the RAF. Had the latter not survived the political battles of the 1920s as an independent service there would have been no Canadian equivalent. New Zealand followed Canada, but struggled with sustaining any permanent forces and also adopted a militia model. In 1928 John Salmond wrote another of his reports on the New Zealand air service The Imperial Gift to Canada included 125 aeroplanes, half of them Clerget?powered Avro 504Ks, like this one which was rebuilt in 1927 to become a Lynx?engined 504N. (CF)