CO-OPERATION IN NEW ZEALAND

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24546, 20 April 1945, Page 4

CO-OPERATION IN NEW ZEALAND

ADDRESS BY GENERAL PUTTICK “ WINGS " CEREMONY AT WIGRAM “I regard it as a distinct compliment and of even greater importance, a mark of that co-operation whichbas been so emphasised in this country and in so many different dirfectiohsi" said Lieutenant-General E. Puttick, Chief of the General Staff iiuNew Zealand, expressing thanks for the invitation to present “wings" badges at a graduation ceremony- foe airmen pilots at the Royal New Zealand Air Force station at Wigram yesterday. “Whether or not co-operation was liked, it would have been forced on everyone, service and civilians-alike,-by the stress .of circumstances of mis great war, and we have seen examples of co-operation which I prefer to call working together for the common good in all sorts of 1 fields,' in all' countries of the world. The necessity for working together and co-operating has been stressed,'and, I think, accepted all over the world, but I doubt very much if a great many of the advocates fully realise the implications of co-operation, which is not a case of taking all you can get; it is a caSe of working together, of giving more than taking. , “The situation in the future will call for all the tolerance, all the wisdom, and all of the giving of which all of us —each one of us altogether—are capable, because unless those nations of the world which iiave more or less similar ideals are prepared to giye up in many cases their own chosen path to some extent, to accept the point of view of the other 'fellow a great deal more than has been the case in the past, their chances of getting somewhere recede very much into the background.” Group Captain C. E. Kay presided at the ceremony. “Wings” were presented to Sergeant G. D. Campbell, Corporal L. V. Petrowski, and Leading Aircraftmen J, S. Bayliss, T. C. Beech, A. J. Bosson. I. H. Brown, N, V, Christie, R. A. Clark, J. Cochrane, R. W. Coleman, A. G. Craigmyle, W. G. J. Deller, M. J, Digby, W. S. fernery, J. D, C. Fagan. G. S Flavell, A. W. Fraser, G. S. Garratt, K. C. Horrobin, G. R. Kelly, C. E. Lambert; R. H. Lane, T. Larkin, L. D. Luxton, D. D. McCambridge, S. Mclnnes, R. M. Mackenzie, A. A. Osborne, M. A Pagani, R. J. Press, N. D. Schofield, J. E. Tombleson, D. L. Ward, K. A. G. Wilde. Trophies were presented as follows: Medium steep glide bombing, Leading Aircraftman Wade; low-level bombing, Corporal Petrowski; air to air bombing, Leading Aircraftman Fraser; air to ground bombing, Leading Aircraftman Dellow; honours student, Leading Aircraftman Digby.