DOMINION AIRMEN
CANADIAN TRAINING SCHOOLS “A COMMENDABLE GESTURE ” (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 14. Further evidence of the high calibre of the New Zealand air trainees in Canada is afforded in advice received by the National Patriotic Fund Board dealing with the splendid gesture which the men made towards air raid victims in Great Britain and their fellow New Zealanders serving in the United Kingdom.
According to the report, last May 145 boxes of comforts for R.N.Z.A.F. trainees received in Canada from the National Patriotic Fund Board. Fourteen boxes went to the wireless school at Montreal, where the New Zealanders decided unanimously to give the comforts to the Red Cross for the use of people in the bombed areas in Britain. “We consider* this a most commendable gesture on their part.” stated the Canadian Red Cross. , The New Zealand trainees at another training school also decided unanimously that their comforts should go to England. Their attitude was that members of the R.N.Z.A.F. in England were more in need of comforts than they were. Accordingly, arrangements were made to ship these goods to London. '
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24738, 15 October 1941, Page 7
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