AIR SENSE
Twenty-one vacancies for aircraftsmen and aircraft apprentices for the New Zealand Permanent Air Force brought a response from over six hundred applicants, and, according to a statement by the Minister of Defence, others are still coming in. Recently, when the Department required ten men for the Sockburn aerodrome there were four hundred applications. This rush of applicants cannot be altogether due to> unemployment. One is rather inclined to regard it as evidence of keen interest in the development of flying and its associated industries in this country, and a strong foundation upon which to create that national “ air sense ” in which, up to the present, New Zealand has been lacking. We are still very far behind, but with) the right kind of encouragement, and the steady development of flying, we should quickly overtake the leeway. We have lost little by delay. On the contrary we have profited by the experience of others, and taken up aviation at a stage of its scientific development which should involve us in little loss of time or money in pioneer experimentation.
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Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1929, Page 8
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179AIR SENSE Hokitika Guardian, 19 October 1929, Page 8
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