MINISTER’S TOUR

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25239, 31 May 1943, Page 2

MINISTER’S TOUR

MR JONES IN ENGLAND (N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent) (ROC. 9 p.m.) LONDON. May 29. The placid cloisters of King’s College. Cambridge, the quiet Ely hospital wards, the memorial marking the point where the Tory sailed for New Zealand from Plymouth, and the bomb damage in that’ famous port were all seen by Mr F. Jones when continuing his round of visits to New Zealanders operating with the R.A.F., members of the Fleet Air Arm in training, and ratings on leave. Mr Jones made a special visit to King’s College to thank the provost for the college's action in granting five scholarships to members of the R.N.Z.A.F. who are wounded and unfit for further service. There are none at the college at prssent. Mr Jones dined with the staff and students. At Ely Hospital he met sick and wounded New Zealanders. At the Fleet Air Arm training unit he talked with several New Zealand pilots and also met Paymaster-commander I T . T. P. Cooper, the former naval secretary in New Zealand.' At Plymouth Lady Astor took him to many service clubs used by New Zealanders. Mr Jones next me rning addressed ratings in Devonport dock yards and saw realistic training in a gunnery school, where the men work under war conditions, sheets of water being thrown- over them and shells fired as they work the guns. Mr Jones toured the dock yards, accompanied by a former Dunedinite, Rear-admiral C. Sinclair Thomson.