ROYAL AIR FORCE
ADMISSION OF SHORT SERVICE OFFICERS. RECORD INTAKE FOR ANY YEAR. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.40 a.m.) . RUGBY, January 4. Since June, when Sir Kingsley Wood (Air Minister) announced that, owing to the further expansion of the Royal Air Force, 1.700 pilots would be recruited, 1,300 candidates have been accepted, leaving only 400 vacancies to be filled during the next three months. These 400 recruits will complete a record intake of short service officers for any year in the history of the Air Force.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 January 1939, Page 5
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