CAMBRIDGE & ELY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1943, Page 4

CAMBRIDGE & ELY

VISITED BY "NEW ZEALAND DEFENCE MINISTER

gratitude for kindness to men on service.

SERVICE CLUBS AND WAR DEPOTS

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The placid cloisters of King’s College, Cambridge, the quiet wards of Ely HOooital, the memorial marking the point where the Tory sailed for New Zealand from Plymouth, and the bomb damage to that famous nort, were all seen by the New Zealand Minister of Defence, Mr Jones, who is continuing his round of visits to New Zealanders operating with the R.A.F., members of the Fleet Air Arm in training, and ratings on leave. , Mr Jones made a special visit to King’s College to thank the provost for the college’s action in granting five scholarships to members of the R.N.Z.A.F. who were wounded and unfit foi further service. There is none ac the college at present. Mr Jones dined with the staff and students. At Ely Hospital he met sick and wounded New Zealanders. At a Fleet Air Arm training unit he talked to several New Zealand pilots, and also to Paymaster Commandei N. T. P. Cooper, a former naval secretary in New Zealand. At Plymouth, Lady Astor took him to many service clubs used by New Zealanders. Mr Jones next morning addressed ratings in the Devonport dockyards and saw realistic training in a gunnery school, where the men work under war conditions, sheets of water being thrown over them with shells firing as they work the guns. The Minister toured the dockyards accompanied by RearAdmiral C. Sinclair-Thomson, formerly of Dunedin, and he met Captain J. W. Rivett Carnac, D.S.C., former commander cf New Zealand cruisers. He called on the commander-in-chief, Admiral Sir Charles Forbes, and thanked Lady Forbes for her interest in forming a club for Dominion personnel. She is assisted by Mrs Sinclair-Thomson. Mr Jones said: “Wherever I went it was gratifying to hear the splendid reports of the New Zealanders’ work. I was much impressed by the excellent facilities in the clubs used by our boys, who much apreciate the untiring work of voluntary helpers, to whom I expressed the thanks of New Zealand and the Government. I was also impressed by the great spirit of the English people —a spirit that will not be beaten.”