ROYAL AIR FORCE
THE TIDE OF RECRUITING IN BRITAIN. BIG INCREASE AS COMPARED WITH LAST YEAR. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY. August 14. A total of 541 recruits joined the Royal Air Force last week, bringing the entry of pilots, observers, airmen, and boys since April 1. to 15,944, compared with 8,083 in the corresponding period in 1938. A number of the centres of the Royal Air Force Voluntter Reserve are now approaching the establishment set for them in the current expansion scheme. I The question of raising the current esI tablishment of centres is, however, constantaly under review. In several of the larger towns the number of applications for air sections in hand is sufficient to fill all immediate vacancies. Several centres are training memj bers of the following sections of the j volunteer reserves —pilots air observers, wireless operators, air gunners, skilled and semi-skilled tradesmen and aircraft hands. With all those sections fully functioning it can be seen with what completeness the volunteer reserve is taking its place behind the regular air force.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1939, Page 5
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