AIR RECRUITS TO ENTER CAMP

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23587, 14 March 1942, Page 3

AIR RECRUITS TO ENTER CAMP

SERVICE- IN ARMY PROPOSED

MOBILISATION PLAN ANNOUNCED (P.A.) WELLINGTON, March 13.

Men who have been accepted for service with the Royal New Zealand’Air Force and who are awaiting entry, and those whose applications are pending* will in the near future be mobilised by the Army and posted to the territorial force.

Announcing this, the Minister for Defence (the Hon. F. Jones) said that those who would be required to enter the Royal New Zealand Air Force from now until the middle of June for training, in either aircrew or non-flying trades, would not be included in the present Army call-up. Those mobilised for territorials, he added, would be recalled when and as required for training with the Air Force. All volunteers might rest assured that their Air Force applications would remain current. They would not be forgotten and, in their turn, would be withdrawn from territorials and given facilities on Air Force stations to complete their pre-entry in educational training. The international situation was such, the Ministc. added, that no reserves of manpower should remain untapped, and a reserve of Air Force applicants, both at present and in the future, would be a welcome addition to the strength of the territorials. The Government was confident that the men involved would recognise their first duty was defence of the country in whatever sphere they were needed.