Wairarapa Times-Age FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1942. AN AIR FORCE RESERVE OF YOUTH.
yO doubt there will be as ready a response in the NVairarapa as there Jias been in other parts of the Dominion to the invitation to lads of suitable age and qualifications to join the Air Training Corps. As may be seen from an item in our news columns today, following on a visit yesterday by Wing Commander G. A. Nicholls, this organisation is now to be set definitely on foot in Masterton. The formaton of a unit of the A.T.C. at Wairarapa College is under consideration. A town unit, for boys who have left school, will also be formed if sufficient recruits come forward and a correspondence course is available for those who cannot join a unit.
Like the similar organisation which has been developed on a much greater scale in Britain, the New Zealand A.T.C. holds very valuable possibilities as a means of building up a reserve from which the Air Force may later draw recruits who have been put through a useful course of preliminary training and have to an extent been tested and tried out. There is, of course, no question of rushing lads into the Air Force. Recruits will be admitted to the Air Training Corps only with the consent of their parents and this consent does not of necessity imply permission for a lad to join the Air Force when he is of an age to do so. That question is left to be determined when it actually arises.
The development of the A.T.C. offers all-round advantages. Tt enables the authorities controlling the Air Force to give methodical and extended training of a preliminary character to those who will later be seeking to enter the Air Force, and will facilitate the selection of the best personnel offering. At the same time if a lad has not the qualifications or any real inclination for service in the Air Force it is better that this should be determined at an early stage than later on. The organisation in this district of a unit or units of the A.T.C. should be welcomed by parents, as it undoubtedly will be by many members of the oncoming generation.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1942, Page 2
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