WANGANUI BOY TO TAKE COURSE IN THE ROYAL AIR FORCE
A Wanganui youth, R. C. Oliver, has been selected by the Royal NewZealand Air Force to train as an aircraft apprentice at the Royal Air Force College at Halton, England. He is one of 15 New Zealand boys selected to undertake a four-year course. They will spend four years in the United Kingdom and will then return to New Zealand engagements with the R.N.Z.A.F. These youths, who are 16 and 17 years of age. will leave for England in February after a short course at Wigram to Introduce them to service life. They will begin training in England next May. More than 100 enquiries were received when the R.N.Z.A.F. advertised this new training scheme last month. Many applicants did not have the required educational qualifications, and others were rejected for medical reasons, but i2B candidates passed the entrance examination. Of the 15 selected, nine i had seen service in the Air Training (Corps and two were already in the R.N.Z.A.F. as boy entrants. The other four are newcomers to the service. '
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Wanganui Chronicle, 27 December 1950, Page 6
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