16. Colonel FABERasked the Under-Secretary of State for War if he will state why ten probationer certificated officers of the New Zealand Flying Corps, who left Now Zealand in October and arrived in England early in December viâ the Panama Canal, were sent to Blackdown Camp, Surrey; whether five of them are now ordered to Egypt without any flying trial whatever; and whether it will be arranged for such officers to go in future by a shorter route than by the Panama Canal and Halifax to arrive in Egypt?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThe probationer officers referred to were candidates for admission to a cadet wing, and passed through Blackdown to the cadet wing in the course of ordinary routine. While in the cadet wing five of them volunteered to join a draft of cadets for training in Egypt, where they will complete their cadet training and instruction in aviation.