YOUNG FLYING MEN
TWO MORE NEW ZEALANDERS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Christchurch, September 15. Two more pupils of the Canterbury Aviation School—Ross Brodie, of Eangitata, South Canterbury, and E, T. Sutherland, of Wangamii—passed their flying tests to-day. and will be drafted into the Royal .Flying Corps. It is stated Sutherland will be tho first Maori to onter the Royal Plying Corps. Tho conditions laid down by tho Imperial Government provide that a candidate must be of pure European descent. Communication, however, was established with tho Imperial authorities on tho point, and they agreed to accept as a pilot any candidate with Maori blood provided ho was not a full-blooded Maori.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3192, 17 September 1917, Page 4
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109YOUNG FLYING MEN Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3192, 17 September 1917, Page 4
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