SEPTEMBER “BLITZ" RECALLED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 168, 19 July 1941, Page 4

SEPTEMBER “BLITZ" RECALLED

“MAGNIFICENT R.A.F.” SIR CYRIL NEWALL’S PART PRAISED “Still fresh in our memories is the part taken by the Royal Air Force during the ’blitz’ over England last September. Wc remember with thankfulness Ihe splendid service rendered 1o our nation by that force of superb men to whom the safety of England, and, indeed, the British Empire, was entrusted in those fateful In these words, the Dominion Chief Seoul. Commissioner, Mr. H. Christie, welcomed the Governor-General, Sir Cyril Newall, at a combined parade in Wanganui yesterday of Boy Scouts, Girl Guides. Cubs and Brownies.

“It lias been rightly said that every boy must have a hero.” Mr. boy must have a hero,” said Mr. Christie added. “I fear that most of the heroes of our boyhood diminished in size as the years increased in number. Boys of to-day have heroes who will appear bigger as the years go by. We have such heroes now in the Scout movement. “Little did we think that in less than a year from the ‘blitz’ I have mentioned, we would welcome as our Chief Scout the one who was the magnificent, leader of that splendid R.A.F.,” Mr. Christie added, referring to Sir Cyril’s work in England.