N.Z. AIR FORCE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19144, 29 October 1927, Page 5

N.Z. AIR FORCE.

TRAINING OF RECRUITS. F3Z3S ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, October 23. In reply to an enquiry concerning the response that was being made to. the call for recruits for the New Zealand Air Force, the Minister for Defence (Mr F. J. Rolleston) stated that several hundreds of applications had already come to hand, but there appeared to be a misunderstanding of the position on the part of some of the applicants, ■who seemed to be under the impression that the employment was of a permanent nature. The Minister emphasised the fact that this was not so, as the enrolment proposed was to bo in the New Zealand Air Force, which was a Territorial air force, and not to be confused with the New Zealand Permanent Air Force. The position was briefly that the ten trainees proposed to be selected would be required to undergo a twelve weeks' course of instruction during the present financial year (1927-23), and after the completion of that course they would leave the Wigrarn Aerodrome and follow their normal civil avocation until November, 1928, when a similar course of twelve weeks would be carried out. After the completion of these two courses trainees who graduated would be posted as 2nd Lieutenants to the Territorial Air Force, otherwise known as the New Zealand Air Force, and would annually attend camp for refresher training for a period of approximately ten days during the succeeding five yeara. Trainees and graduates would be paid only for the time they actually were in attendance in the courses.