ROYAL AIR FORCE

Feilding Star, Volume 7, Issue 2243, 26 June 1929, Page 5

ROYAL AIR FORCE

FIRST APPRENTICE FROAI NEW ZEALAND The first New Zealand apprentice to the Royal Air Fore© in England hjas just been appointed and accepted. He is F. A. Cramp, aged 16, son of Mr E. R. Cramp, of Birkdal© road, Birkdale, Auckland. He qualified for lii.s apprenticeship under the conditions recently published in the Dominion, and had been accepted by the. Air Council at Home. He will leave New Zealand to enter upon his apprenticeship at an R.A.F. training establishment shortly. Passages arid expense,c; to England have, to he paid hv "file apprentices. . Mr A. At. Actpn-Adams'i, ID, son of thp, Ja/to Col. P. AL Acton-Adam.s, D.i?.p., AM)., of Kaj-koura, has been accepted for a. IRoval Air Force oacletship at the R.A.F. College, C-ran-tvell, on the nomination of His Eixcelldney the Cove.rmor-General, Sir (tliarles Fergussorii. and iwitl he leaving 'New Zealand shortly to enter on the term commeuahig in September. The late.''Colonel P. Af. Acton-Adams '• was well known throughout the Dominion, and saw considerable sendee during the war.