Airwoman To Retire
fN.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, Dec. 28. The first woman in the Royal New Zealand Air Force to serve overseas in peacetime is to retire from the service at the end of this month. She is Flight Officer T. W. Robinson, who has made the air force her career for 24 years. Flight Officer Robinson joined the R.N.Z.A.F. in 1943 for the duration of the Second World War and subsequently extended her engagement In 1953. she was posted to Lauthala Bay, Fiji, becoming the first member of the W.R.N.Z.A.F. to serve overseas since the war. She was later joined by a party of 20 other airwomen.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31564, 29 December 1967, Page 11
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