APPARENT SUPREMACY

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 249, 22 October 1942, Page 2

APPARENT SUPREMACY

N.Z. AIR SECRETARY'S FINDING.

P.A. Special.

LONDON, Oct. 20.

The visit of Mr T. A. Barrow, New Zealand Air Secretary, is now drawing to a close. He is attending the daily conferencc at. the Air Ministry, where he ;s discussing the Empire Air Training scherne which will be carried on till at least 1945. Mr Barrow is acting-chairman of the sub-committse on finance, in the absence of the flnancial adviser. in five weeks, Mr Barrow has visited five out of the six New Zealand squadrons and has also met many New Zealanders at other stations throughout Britain. He said he was impressed b\ their splendid morale, their keenness and also their good health. Mr Barrow has been given every opportunity to study the R.AF.'s organisation. He was ' particularly cheered and interested to observe the R.A.F.'Vi apparent supremacy over the Luftwafle, which is shown by the reports and also by the accounts of pilots roturnmg from operations, who state it is ver.y hard to find a German aircraft. Mr Barrow met the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Archibald Sinclair, and the Parliamentary Under-Secre-tary, Mr Balfour, also ail members of the Air Council, having attended several Air Council meetings, He discussed with Lord Keynes, Bursar of King's Coliege, Cambridge, and the Provost. the question of scholarships being awarded. to New Zealand airmen. Negotiations in this connection are proceeding.