ONTARIO HOME.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 308, 28 December 1940, Page 6

ONTARIO HOME.

CRUMLIN AIRPORT. OBSERVERS AT WORK. REVELLING IN HOSPITALITY. (By Air.) TORONTO, Dec. 20. Crumlin airport, Canada, may now be described as a suburb of Xcw Zealand. At this Air Force training ground about hix miles from London. Ontario, air observers who left thi> country >e\cral week:- ago \m\c settled down lo the next phase of thc : r training after having completed a 10,000-mile journey from ''down under."' Despite the rigours of a Canadian winter they are enjoying the novelty of their temporarily adopted j country, j Others of the parly which arrived at 1 Vancouver from New Zealand were j separated en route from the Pacilic Coast lo undergo their training in other parts of the vast Dominion where different courses are studied. But Crumlin airport is the training ground for observers on the Air Force. The men who went there had not interrupted their training during the long voyage from Xew- Zealand. There were daily lectures on board ship and on the train travelling across Canada—for the theoretical side of the mysteries of aircraft is just as important as the practical side. To-day Crumlin airport sees keen "Enzedders*' settled down at Number 4 Observers* School as though they were old-timers in the great Dominion. And they had little time to adjust themselves to the new conditions because they resumed their studies on the day of their arrival at London. Hospitality Extended. According to reports from the airport all the men were healthv, happv and keenly interested j n the magnificent scenery through which thev had passed on their long journey. Travelling over the famous Rocky Mountains was to them a wonderful experience, and the magnificent expanses of the prairies of the West brought homo to them something of the va§tness of their sister Dominion. iThey arrived at their destination in brilliant, snowless weather but the i following dav thev got their first taste of what a Canadian winter brings when a storm began during the night and transformed the landscape blanketing it deep in snow. The men are all pleased with their quarter*, and have had no trouble in finding new friends among the people of J?S? n^^ ity J - with a Population of 80,000. The Canadians are noted for their hospitality, and this time they have set out to take the strangers in their midst .o their hearts and introduce them to the sports and pleasures of tie Dominion. Tran*-Canadian aircraft stop at Crumlin airport three times a dav after ££5 the P r B ou°te. the T ™**"«* h.« ! S i C * rt * in that when the ""Hen I have to leave on the next stage of their journey to assist the Empire thev will 22 re^ et . from the* good £iem£ they have made in Ontario.