MEN FOR AIR FORCE.
DRIVE FOR RECRUITS.
DOMINION-WIDE EFFORT.
(P.A.t WELLINGTON. Thursdav
Arrangements for a Dominion-wide recruiting campaign for men to train as pilots, observers and gunners are now being coni|)leted by the Royal New Zealand Air 1- oree. This campaign will mark the beginning of New Zealand's full cooperation in the Empire air fcheme as the Air Force authorities are now ready to train men by the thousand*.
Activities will 'begin in Wellington or Monday, a week's programme having been arranged, embracing parades /if men in training, radio talk*, and the screening of a film entitled "Wings Over New Zealand." which is the first comprehensive pictorial record of New Zealand's effort in training men for the Air Force.
The campaign will be continued in Napier. Hastings, Danncvirke. Palmerston North. Wanganui and New Plymouth. At the conclusion of this programme a campaign will be opened in the South Island.
Flights of aeroplanes will participate in the campaign, and in Palmerston North, Wanganui, New Plymouth and Wellington the Kinds of the Royal New Zealand Air Force will perform. Men from near by Air Forw stations will take part in parades through the towns.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 73, 28 March 1941, Page 8
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192MEN FOR AIR FORCE. Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 73, 28 March 1941, Page 8
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