YOUNG SCOTSMEN
AIR RAID "VETERANS" ARRIVAL FROM, ENGLAND TWO BOYS FOR DUNEDIN (Special to Daily Times) WELLINGTON, Sept. 11. Veterans of many air raids, - four sturdy young Scots—Alastair and lan McKay, and James and Robert HamdltbrirrWere,among the party of British children who arrived in the Dominion to-day from the Old Country. Their ■'ages varied from 11 to 14 years. They were conspicuous among the 170, young travellers by their broad accents, their bonnets, kilts, and sporrans, and their Jivelyf'' cheerful dispositions. They 'were; accompanied by their mothers and were going, to friends in various parts, of the Dominion, the. Hamiltons to Auckland, and the McKays to Dunedin. All came from Glasgow. “Aye, we’ve seen air, raids,” said Alastair. He said there had been air raids over Glasgow and afterwards when they were in London shortly before they left England. “And What did you do? Go down into the A.R.P. shelters?” “ Nq,” ,he replied scornfully “we just stayed in our beds.” . ; “ Were you vety frightened? “Of course, not,” he said indignantly. His reply was stated to be typical Of the matter-of-fact . attitude .of the youth of Britain to Nazi frightfulness.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24401, 12 September 1940, Page 8
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