Since the outbreak of the war more than 3000 women of the Ordzhonikidze territory in the North Caucasus have 1 learned to drive tractors. In 1942 their number is to be multiplied several times, Four thousand girls are now completing their training. By autumn more than 10,000 women tractor drivers will be working in the fields. Similar large figures arc reported from other regions.
Son of Famous Airman John Ulm, aged 21 years, has just completed his initial training course, and been selected as a pilot of the Royal Australian Air Force. He is the son of Flight-Liileutenant C. T. Ulm, who, after doing much to develop aviation in Australia with the late Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, disappeared in 1934 after leaving Vancouver on a flight intended to pioneer a British Pacific air loutc.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 90, 12 August 1942, Page 8
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134Untitled Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 05, Issue 90, 12 August 1942, Page 8
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