JOIN TASMAN AIRWAYS

Grey River Argus, 12 October 1944, Page 4

JOIN TASMAN AIRWAYS

EIGHT MEN FROM AIR FORCE. PA AUCKLAND, October 11. Five pilots and three flight engineers from the Royal New Zealand Air Force have already been rehabilitated into civilian work with the Tasman Empire Airways. Hitherto the company’s flying personnel came fully-trained from England, but since the return of some of the pilot staff to the British Overseas Airways an increase in the Service’s training programme to adjust each selected new man to commercial, requirements has been embarked upon in Auckland. All the new pilots have been on active service overseas, the first three in the Pacific and the others in Britain with the Coastal Command. They now are ranked as first or second officers. The men in the order of their joining the company, are:— Flying Officer D. W. G. Keesing, of Auckland; Flight Lieutenant F. F. Le Couteur, of Dunedin; Flight Lieutenant J .R. McGrant, of Auckland; Flight Lieutenant C. J. Le Couteur, D.F.C., of Dunedin; and Squadron Leader I. C. Patterson, D. 5.0., of Auckland.