LEAFLETS FROM AIR
CANDIDATE’S RESPONSIBILTY (By Telegrapn—Press Association) AUCKLAND, Friday. Sole responsibility for the “leaflet raid.” carried out from an aircraf over Auckland on Wednesday afternoon was acknowledged by Flying-Officer L. S. Dromgoole, Democratic Labour Party candidate for Auckland East, during an election address last night. He added that when he returned to his station on Sunday morning he expected to be court-martialled. Mr Lee knew nothing about the raid. “Repercussions already have begun,” Flying-Officer Dromgoole continued. “I believe the police are on my trail, and I intend to see them and tell them that I did it. The Prime Minister also is on my trail. He telephoned the commanding officer of the station to which I am attached wanting to know how this sort of thing could possibly have happened. “On the instructions of the Prime Minister, the pilot of the aircraft was interrogated. I was taken before a tribunal today and examined for two hours.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22151, 24 September 1943, Page 4
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