WOMEN’S AUXILIARY AIR FORCE
Start At Rongotai About 140 members of the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force have begun duty at Rongotai. Seventy went in on Saturday, 70 on Monday and about 40 are still to be drafted.' “The women are tackling their work with zest and efficiency,” -said the air secretary, Mr. T. A. Barrow, yesterday. It is expected that all the women will be provided with uniforms within three weeks. Men, whose jobs the udmen are doing. are being released for training as pilots, observers and air gunners and for service in the Army. The next, move will probably be to provide women for Harewood and Wigram stations; 300 are expected to begin duty there early in June. Mrs. C. I Carlyon, of the Air Department, yesterday expressed appreciation of the response by people of the Rongotai district to an appeal made through' the Press for accommodation for women serving on the station there.
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Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 71, 2 May 1941, Page 7
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