Air Training Corps, Whangarei Unit

Northern Advocate, 7 March 1942, Page 2

Air Training Corps, Whangarei Unit

“Arrangements have been completed for the formation cf a town -mil of the Air Training Corps in Whangarei,” .stated Squadron-Leader W. £. R. Bloomfield today. The North Island Divisional Commander of the A.T.C. further stated that training would commence with a parade on Monday, March S, at 6.3 J p.m. at the Y.W.C.A. The. cadets have been placed in two flights. At the parade they will bring sandshoes, shorts, notebooks and pencils to enable a good start to be made.

Any youth between the ages of lot and "l 8 years who has not yet joined the Air Training Corps can do so if he reports at this parade, where full particulars can be obtained. The corps is already large, consisting of 41 cadets divided as follows: A Flight : J. W. Percy, O. E. Wells. J. 11. Finlav, P. B. F. Smith, K. E. Smith. C A. Macpherson, T. O. Tupp. H. L. Armstrong. C. D. Sutherland, L. A. Shanks, L. S. Ormandy, R. G. Bignell, M. T. Conaghun, A. J. Pearson. R. C. Mullins, C. H. MarshallMuir, T. W. Broomfield, G. Mears, A. R. Pickmere, R. N. Steadman, R. H. Lane, N. K. Stevens, D. F. Williams.

B Flight:—N. Penney, D. C. Hamilton. C. R. E. Drinnan, A. J. Adams. E. J. Johnson, J. E. Stainton. L. H. Johnson. K. A. Adams, R. Lawrence. S. Thorstenson, C. Hardy. W. King, N. S. Wood. M. M. McDonald. R. N. Steadman, D. H. Bourke. J. H. Wright.

Radio For Hospitals.—The secretary of the National Patriotic Funds Board has received from the office of the DirectorGeneral of Medical Service a letter asking him to convey lo the Anzac War Relief Fund Organisation in New York grateful appreciation of the gift of 100 radio headphones. with cords and plugs, provided lor the use of sick and wounded soldiers in hospitals in New Zealand.