“MEN, NOT BOYS.”
The part that youthful aviators played in the Great War, and the alleged practyp of calling men boys, were referred to bv the Deputy-Mayor (Councillor Thacker), speaking to the annual renort of the Canterbury Centre of the Royal Life Paving Society Wst bight. “Boss o c twentvtwo who may still be at Christ’s College or High, School are still called <boys,’ when>. they are men,” stated Councillor;c .Thacker. "When I was young I believed that T was a man when sixteeni : : We don’t want our 'young mail hood called boys and our young women called girls. It is a perfect humbug to have young women described as girls. It is ridiculous way of talking babyishly, and i*> a sort of spoon-fed thing that is no pood. The war was won to a large extent by aviators, who were at their best at nineteen years and under.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1930, Page 2
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