TERRITORIAL AIR FORCE

Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 26985, 10 March 1953, Page 6

TERRITORIAL AIR FORCE

training offered STUDENTS (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, March. 6. Opportunities to serve in territorial units of the Royal New Zealand Air Force as administrative and technical officers are now open to university students who do or have done their A > ir'Fo SOry miJitary tra >n>ng in the Training for these posts, which will be spread over two years, will be carried out during vacation periods. Students will be paid £6 6s a week during their training. A number of students *who will become pilots and navigators in territorial squadrons have been training under a similar scheme for some time! Engineering, signals and armament officers are required in the technical branch and secretarial and supply officers are wanted in the administrative branch. If there are sufficient applications students wno entered camp with the January intakes and from those who have already completed their compulsory training with the Air pree, the first training period will begin m November. Students accepted for the course will be required to accept an appointment to a .five-year commission in the Territorial Air Force followed by four years on the reserve. They will be commissioned as acting pilot officers on the successful completion of their compukory training and will be pro,o ran J c of P ilot officer, if suitable, when the two-year, course has been completed. Students will not be required to attend night lectures or to undertake terms" end duties durin g university