R.A.F. TITLES
TO BE ADQRTEB; IN DOMINION, • } % :';a \ ■'■■■■ WELLINGTON, Nov. 11. In a- few days a notice will appear in. tlie Gazette stating that the •Royal Air Force , titles are to be adopted in New Zealand instead' of the Army ranking as-’at present. This intimation was given by Wing-Com-mander Grant-Dalton, D. 5.0., A.F.Q., when replying to - the toast of the “Navy, Army, and Air Forces” at the annual reunion of the Wellington Regiment on Saturday nigiit. He thought the idea a good one and that Gle Air-Force l here should follow that'iat home:. :' Small as it was, the New Zealand Air• Force contained some 'excellent fellows. The Air Force and Army lyere one and the cooperation between the two was absolutely perfect. “Iftyou .want safe travel, travel by air,’’^aid“ Commander Dalton. “I see the Mrnisler ,for Railways here, and I mighfesay T got a terrible shaking up on one of his trains, the other day, and 1 will always go by air when possible.”’
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1929, Page 3
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164R.A.F. TITLES Hokitika Guardian, 13 November 1929, Page 3
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