AIR FORCE CADETS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20541, 16 February 1935, Page 16

AIR FORCE CADETS.

New Zealand Boys Achieve Success. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, February 15. Cabled advice received to-day shows that two more New Zealanders, Cecil Dunn Milne, son of Mrs K. Milne, Woodcot, Te Aroha, and Joffre Gordon Fraser, son of Lieutenant-Colonel E. G. Fraser. V.D., formerly of Auckland, and now of Rotorua, have achieved a fine record in their training examinations. Both Milne and Fraser were nominated by the Defence Department in 1931 for entry intp the Royal Air Force as aircraft apprentices. Entering No. 1 school of technical training, Halton, in January, 1932, the young students completed a three years’ course in December last. Both have been awarded cadetships and are, therefore, eligible for entry to the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, to follow the full normal course of training for pilot officers. The Minister of Defence, the Hon J. G. Cobbe, said that the officers of the Defence Department were naturally pleased at the success of Milne and Fraser. The young men, he said, wellmerited the congratulations they had received. In addition to being awarded a cadetship, Milne took first prizes for grand aggregate and educational subjects, and was awarded the Lord Wakefield scholarship. “The success of Milne and Fraser,” added the Minister, “is all the more pleasing because it is known that cadetships in the air force are difficult to obtain, and are only awarded to apprentices who show most outstanding ability. Reports before me show that in some years no cadetship is awarded. Three were granted to the Halton entry of eighty-two apprentices who passed out of the training establishment last December.”