R.A.F. POSTMISTRESS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21009, 4 February 1943, Page 4

R.A.F. POSTMISTRESS

•AUCKLAND GIRL FIRST IN BRITAIN (Special Correspondent.} LONDON, Feb. 2. Aircraftwoman June Biddle, aged 21 years, of Auckland, has been appointed the first Royal Air Force postmistress. She is a clerk and postal worker which is now in the W.A.A.F. category. She as in charge of a fighter station post office in the south of England. Her day begins at 0.30 a.m. when she accompanies the van to the civil post office to collect the mail. For two years she was teleprinter operator and was later chosen for the first Royal Air Force post office course from which she passed out two weeks ago.

“At first I thought the post office was a'dull job after operational work, but I find it fascinating,” she said. She arrived in Britain with her mother in 1938 for a year’s holiday with her English grandmother and planned to return to Auckland in 1939. She joined the Womens Auxiliary Air Force instead. Her fiance is serving with the New Zealanders in North Africa. Her only brother is in the Merchant Navy.