WOMEN'S AIR SQUADRON
PRECEDENT IN CANADA HALIFAX, June 2. Believed to be the first in Canada, a flying squadron for women has been organised in Halifax, including high school pupils, stenographers and clerks. Miss Melda Walters, captain of Trinity Girl Guides and associated with the movement for more than 15 years, has organised the squadron, which has 17 members. Miss Walters said she believed women could be trained for emergencies, pointing to the valuable part they played during the Great War. Miss Walters is taking lessons at the Halifax airport, and the women's squadron meets once a week. Their study will be confined to ground work for some time, and Miss Walters said that when they were thoroughly familiar with the details, the flying squadron would start lessons that would make them efficient pilots.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19699, 3 August 1938, Page 13
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134WOMEN'S AIR SQUADRON Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19699, 3 August 1938, Page 13
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