DISCIPLINE PRAISED

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4428, 21 May 1941, Page 4

DISCIPLINE PRAISED

NEW ZEALAND AIR TRAINEES. “The training and discipline of these boys began before they joined the Air Force. It began in their homes and was given by their parents.” This was the fine tribute paid by a high officer of the Canadian Air Force to New Zealanders who are undergoing their training in Canada under the Empire air training schemeIt was paid by the officer in the course of conversation with Mrs E. H. Hunt (nee Haybittie) of Calgary, on the occasion of a visit to one, of the training schools, and Mrs Hunt has passed it on to friends in New Plymouth, who have a son in the Air Force at Calgary, with her own comment: “What a nice tribute; and the parents of these boys ought to know the fine opinion that has been formed of them.” Mrs Hunt refers in her letter to meeting several New Zealanders. She says they all remind her so much of her own country and she and her husband are anxious to do all they can for any New Zealand boys who go to Calgary for training. Those who were there when Mrs Hunt wrote, a few weeks ago, were expected to move out by the end of May.