FAREWELL TO CHIEF OF AIR STAFF
Group Captain Cochrane
SERVICES TO GOVERNMENT APPRECIATED
After completing a 24- years’ engagement in New Zealand as Chief of the Air Staff, Group Captain the Hon. R. A. Cochrane will leave for England by the Mataroa, which is scheduled to sail from Wellington tomorrow for Southampton. He was officially bade farewell by the Government at an afternoon tea gathering yesterday in the office of the Minister of Defence, Mr. Jones, in Parliament Buildings. The gathering was attended by members of -Cabinet in Wellington. The Minister of Education, Mr. Fraser, represented the Prime Minister, Mr. Savage, who is in Auckland. The High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in New Zealand, Sir Harry Batterbee, various departmental officers and representatives of the three services were 'also present.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 153, 24 March 1939, Page 10
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130FAREWELL TO CHIEF OF AIR STAFF Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 153, 24 March 1939, Page 10
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