350-Mile Trip By Jeep, Car, And Plane To Inspect Air Force Camp

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28128, 17 November 1956, Page 10

350-Mile Trip By Jeep, Car, And Plane To Inspect Air Force Camp

(New Zealand Press Association)

WELLINGTON. November 16. Using two cars, a jeep, and an aeroplane. the Chief of Air Staff (Air Vice-Marshal C. E. Kay) today travelled more than 350 miles to visit unofficially the annual camp in the South Island of the Royal New Zealand Air Force boy entrant school. It was the first time a Chief of Air Staff has visited a boy entrants' annual camp. The 10-day camp is being held at Rainbow Valley, about 75 miles from Woodbourne, where the school is situated. Accompanied by Group Captain A.

B. Greenaway, director of training Air Vice-Marshal Kay left Wellington early this morning by car for ParaR a J T a^ rnu - where he boarded an R.N.Z.A.F. Devon for Woodbourne. After travelling 50 miles by ’ car from Woodbourne, they transferred to a jeep for the rest of the journey to Rainbow Valley. They forded 12 streams in the jeep. Air Vice-Marshal Kay arrived at the camp about noon, arid spent three hours there. He asked one of the boys whether he was enjoying the camp, and was told: “Yes. sir, but I don’t like getting up in the morning.” Air Vice-Marshal Kay said he-was impressed with the camp, and considered it a good thing for the boys to spend a period in the valley after a hard year’s study. “In my opinion, the boy entrants are one of the most important parts of the R.N.Z.A.F., and I am proud of the boys visited.” said Air ViceMarshal Kay-after returning to Wellington.