TOLL OF THE AIR
School Loses Old Boys REFERENCE BY PRINCIPAL By Telegraph.—Press Association. ~ Christchurch, December 14. “It would be a good thing for .this school if it turned out boys whose only motto was ‘safety first,’ ” declared the headmaster, Mr. R. J. Richards, at the Christ’s College prize-giving in referring to the deaths of two old boys, members of the Royal Air Force, in aeroplane smashes during the year. “Last year I spoke with approval of the number of boys who were going Home to take up commissions,” said Mr. Richards. “During the past three years this school has been hard hit by the number of young old boys lost in accidents in the Royal Air Force but I do not believe this will deter others from entering a profession which must be well, supplied, even if it is more hazardous than other professions. While we deplore the loss of these young lives, we remember them with pride, and hope that a due proportion of boys will never be lacking when, adventure or danger points the- way.”
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 70, 15 December 1933, Page 13
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