PERSONAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17502, 26 February 1931, Page 5

PERSONAL

The Rev. John Wear Burton has been elected, president of the Methodist Conference of New South Wales. U 6 spent his early years in New Zealand, where lie was educated, and entered the ministry. He ser\ ed at. Thames and Malvern, and then was some years in the Fiji mission; afterwards going to Australia. U.P.A. Mr. F L. Truman, of Auckland,_who went Home to join the Royal Air Force in June, 1927, has returned to the Dominion. He received Ids training in EgypL, and has been stationed at Quetta, India, where he has been engaged occasionally in bombing raids against the Afriilis and other native border tribes. Mr. Truman is on furlough, and will leave New Zealand loi India, in April. As the first New Zealand girl to gain her pilot’s license for flying in England, Miss J. G. Batten attracted a good deal of attention on the Mararna, by which sho arrived at Auckland on Tuesday. She left New Zealand last February for a holiday, and as slio was always keen about flying she determined to take the opportunity to learn. She learned at the London Aero Club, and passed the Air Ministry examination for an A pilot certificate. Miss Patten speaks with great confidence and enthusiasm of all things connected with aviation. She intends to make it her life woik, and if possible to secure a post in commercial flying. She does not consider that flying is a strain on the nerves, except in longdistance flights. She said flying gave her a sense of freedom and exhilaration She took an engineering course at de Havilands, so as to get- a knowledge of more than the actual piloting of the machine. She intends to join the Auckland Aero Club,