FLYING TESTS
TWO MOKE NEW ZEALANDEHS PASS. ■ (BT TEtEGRAPB.—PRE6S ASSOCIATION) CHRISTCHURCH, 15th September. Two morts pupils ,ot thb (Janterburj ! Aviation School—Ross Brodie, ,of Rangltata, South Canterbury, and E. T. Sutherland, of Wanganui—passed their flying t tests to-day, and will be drafted into the , Royal Flying Corps. It ie stated Sutherland will be the first Maori to enter the Royal' Flying Corps. The conditions laid down by the Imperial Government provide that a candidate must be of purb European descent. Communication, however, was_ established with the Imperial authorities on the point, and they agreed to accept as a. pilot any candidate with Maori blood provided he was not a full-bloodad Maori.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 67, 17 September 1917, Page 4
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110FLYING TESTS Evening Post, Volume XCIV, Issue 67, 17 September 1917, Page 4
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