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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 11327, 3 October 1930, Page 7

The part * that youthful aviators olayod in the Great War, and the aticged practice of calling ipon boy?> were referred to by 'he Deputyr Mayor (Councillor Thacker, speaking to'the annual report of the Canter-bury-Centro of the'Koyal''Life?-Sav-ing Society, "lioys-oi ■ twenty-two who may still he at Christ’s College or High School are still called ‘boys, when they are men,” stated Cr. Thackeiv '“When I was'young 1 believed that I was •.man-when, sixteen. We don’t van-; otur young manhood called boys 'and our young women called girls. It is a perfect humbuc to have voting women' described as °girls. It is a ridiculous way' of talking baibvislilv, and is a. sort.of spoon-led thing that is no good. The war was won- to a- large extent by aviators, who were at their best at ■nineteen years and under.”

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