MISSION TO BRITAIN

Evening Star, Issue 24332, 22 October 1942, Page 4

MISSION TO BRITAIN

NEW ZEALAND AIR SECRETARY (N.Z.P.A. Special Correspondent.) LONDON. October 20. The visit of Mr T. A. Barrow Air Secretary for New Zealand, is now drawing to a close. He attends a conference every day at the Air Ministry, where he discusses the Empire air training scheme, which will he carried on until at least 1945. Mr Barrow is acting as chairman of the sub-committee on finances. In five weeks Mr Barrow has visited five out of six New Zealand squadrons, and has met'many New Zealanders from other stations -throughout ’Britain. He has been impressed by their splendid morale and keenness and their good health. He has been given every opportunity to study the 'R.A.F.s organisation, 'and he was particularly cheered and interested to observe the R.A.F.’s apparent supremacy over the Luftwaffe, which is shown both by reports and by the accounts of the pilots returning from operations, who state that it is very hard to find a German aircraft. Mr Barrow met Sir Archibald Sinclair and Captain R. H. Balfour and all the members of the Air Cvmcil, having attended several Air Council meetings. He discussed with Lotd Keynes, the bursar of King's College, Cambridge, and the provost the question of scholarships being awarded to New Zealand airmen. Negotiations in this connection are proceeding. \