AIR CASUALTIES
NOTIFICATION TO NEXT-OF-KIN. QUESTION IN THE HOUSE. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. A request that a better or more accurate method be adopted of notifying the next-of-kin of death or injury by New Zealand airmen serving overseas was made by Mr F. W. Schramm to the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones, when the House of Representatives met this morning. Mr Schramm mentioned the case of a pilot officer from' Auckland who was killed in an aircraft accident at Singapore on August 12. His next-of-kin was first notified that he was seriously injured and it was not until after private advice had been received that he had been killed that an official notification to that, effect was received some weeks later. Mr Jones, in reply, said the whole matter was a regrettable error and apparently due to inexperienced officers handling the case. He was sure a similar mistake would not occur in future.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1941, Page 6
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155AIR CASUALTIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1941, Page 6
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