ROYAL AIR FORCE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22498, 16 February 1935, Page 8

ROYAL AIR FORCE

TRAINING EXAMINATIONS NEW ZEALANDERS’ FINE RECORD. (From Oor Parliamentary Reporter) WELLINGTON, February 15. It is hot unusual for some of the young men of New Zealand undergoing hard training r in aircraftsmanship in England, where the competition is keen, to do well and quickly find full recognition of their efficiency. Cabled advice received to-day, shows that two further New Zealand boys, Cecil Dunn Milne, a son of Mrs K. Milne, Woodcot, Te Aroha, and Joffre Gordon Fraser, a son of ■ Lieutenant-colonel E. G. Fraser, V.D., formerly of' Auckland and now of Rotorua, have achieved a fine record in their training examinations. Both Milne* and Fraser were nominated by the Defence Department in 1931 for entry* into the Royal Air Force as aircraft apprentices. Entering the No. 1 School of Technical Training at Halton in January, 1932, the young students completed the three years’ course in December last. Both have been awarded cadetships and are therefore eligible for entry to the Royal Air Force College at Cranwell, to follow the full normal course of training for pilot officers. The Minister of Defence (Mr.J. G. Cobbe) stated to-day that the officers of the ! Defence Department were naturally pleased at the success of Milne and Fraser. In addition to being awarded a cadetship, Milne took first prizes for the grand aggregate and educational subjects, qnd was awarded the Lord Wakefield scholarship.