PROSPECTS NOT GOOD

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 134, 4 December 1930, Page 15

PROSPECTS NOT GOOD

R.A.F- APPLICANTS

liONCi WAETIXG tiyT

(By. Telog'rapli.), (Special to "The Evening Post.") ,-.[■ - AUCKIiAiSro,. 2nd December. '"■There are a number, of New Zcalantfersfin "the Koyal Air Force at present, anfl most of them are doing exceptionally ,well, '' said Miv G. W. CM. Easton/ who ' returned to' Auckland by the,'Marama. .Mr. .Easton, whoso home is iii■■:Tai-aiiaki,'.obtained-. a commission in, the Air fFovco '• immediately after his arrival inTEhglaiid about ...tw;b., years agoybut >'after- .18 . months.? service had to relinquish his commission a^s the result of a serious crash while he was flying -a Bristol -fighter at Holton-le-Moor, Lincolnshire. He was in hospital for over seven months, and has now been invalided out on pension. Flying-Officer Binley, of Wellington, was one New,Zoalander who was making-; excellent, progress ;in, England.; Mr. Easton' said.' '■■ Other prominent officers from New Zealand were Flying-Officer A. Mathias, of Auckland, ' a' . former, Auckland Kugby representative, who was' playing good football as -well as making a .i/.me for himself in; the' Air Force; Pilot-Officer Williams, of Wellington, who was in the Air Force Kugby fifteen; and who had beaten Flight-Lieutenant G. K. Beamish in the .final of the!,-Air Force heavyweight boxing • championship; -■ Pilot-Officer Grant, of Auckland, and-Pilot-Officer Allen, of ■ Wanganui. "Prospects for New Zealaudors wish-' ing to obtain Air Force commissions are not very good at present," Mr. Easton said., "The Air, Ministry 'hasj been rushed Tvith applications)',;, and there isr'a'lojig waitp'g.'-'list* , . Tho 6tandar4v.o£ pliysieal "fitness hag,.been raised/ and. it is littleY-use foiv anyone to go,^o:jEngland 'on; spec,' <-as many did a:few years,iago."-;C. ";;:.: