New Branches Of R.N.Z. Air Force
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Dec. 0. The establishment of new branches of the Royal New Zealand Air Force,‘the administrative and special duties branch and the medical branch, is gazetted tonight. The function of the former branch will be to appoint officers from civil life to take over administrative duties which are normally carried out by officers of tho general duties branch. An amendment to the Air Force regulations provides that in time of war when it is expedient to promote officers and airmen to bring the Air Force up to war establishment such promotion may be to temporary rank. The officer or airman appointed to temporary rank shall be entitled to the pay and allowances for tho equivalent substantive rank. Acting rank (unpaid) may be granted pending confirmation of appointment to a higher rank, temporary or substantive.
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Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 6
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143New Branches Of R.N.Z. Air Force Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 6
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