W.A.A.F. POSTMISTRESS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 111, 4 February 1943, Page 5

W.A.A.F. POSTMISTRESS

Auckland Girl In Britain (Received February 3, 7 p.m.) LONDON, February 2. Aireraftwoman June Buddle, aged 21, of Auckland, has been appointed first R.A.F. postmistress, the Air Ministry news service reports. June is a clerk postal worker, which is u new W.A.A.F. category. She is in charge of a lighter station post ollice in the South of England. Iler day begins at 6.30 a.m., when she accompanies a car to the civil post office to collect the mail. She was working a teleprinter for two years and was chosen for the first R.A.F. post office course. She passed out two weeks ago. “First, I thought the post office job dull after operational work, but I find it fascinating,’' she says. June arrived in Britain with her mother in 1938 for a year's holiday with her English grandmother. She planned to return to Auckland in 1939. but joined the W.A.A.F. instead. Her fiancee is serving with the 2nd N.Z.E.F. in North Africa, and her only brother is in the Merchant. Navy.