AIR TRAINING SCHEME
Memorial Trees From N.Z.
(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, March 7. To honour the memory of their comrades who trained under the Empire air training scheme in Canada and subsequently lost their lives in combat, the Vancouver Island Reunion Committee is sending 100 trees to be planted as a grove of memory in Stanley Park, Vancouver. The honorary secretary of the committee (Mr G. Harrison, of Wellington) said today that he and his fellow members were grateful to Mr E. Hutt, director of Wellington parks and reserves, for supplying the trees,. and to the Union Steam Ship Company, Ltd., for freighting them free to Canada. The trees selected are 50 pohutakawa and 50 kowhai. The Counsellor of the Canadian High Commission (Mr J. H. Stone) has been in touch with the Mayor'of Vancouver, and he has been assured that the trees will be most welcome. They will be given every care and attention, and planted in a grove with a suitably inscribed marker. The trees will serve as a memorial to those New Zealand airmen who were killed in action after having their initial air training at Tofino, Patricia Bay, Cool Harbour. Ucluet, Victoria, and Vancouver.
It is hoped to send the trees to Canada in the Waimate, sailing at the end of March.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29458, 9 March 1961, Page 2
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216AIR TRAINING SCHEME Press, Volume C, Issue 29458, 9 March 1961, Page 2
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