The Ontario Scrapbook Hansard

Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 9 Apr 1941, p. 2

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| Legislators C d Galt Air School Pupil More than forty members of the ; have their students' administrative Provincial Legislature, conducted | council which takes over the by Hon. Norman Hipel, Minister of :;*:';pl:?'e. of ""'b S':'dcg"'-d 'I'hedy + Tt ! eir own bugle band and, Labor and the originator of ""',allhough a new bangi is necessary * scheme, visited the Air Training | whenever a class graduates, the one School at Galt, which is operated ! that played for the march past was by the department. much better than an organization Each member of the House who| just four weeks old. visited the different departments of Following the inspection, about the school, where more than 900| 800 of the students, excepting only : Ontario young men are training for|those in the welding and sheet| industry or for the maintenance | metal industrial school, participated branches of the R.C.A.F., came away | in a march past. The salute was impressed with the value of the| taken by Col. Fraser Hunter, mem-- work being done, the keenness of | ber for St. Patricks, while on the \the pupils and the possibilities of | saluting base with him were Mr. such a scheme being operated in | Hipel; Capt. Eric Billington, the 'pvm-olime-. | chief instructor; Col. T. L. Ken-- | _ The R.C.AF. school is divided into | nedy, Conservative Whip, and Lieut.-- several sections: the machine shop,| Col. J. A. McIntosh, D.S.O., officer \ where 120 young men are under--| commanding the Highland Light \ going a fifteen--weeks' course; lhe'lnfanlry of the 3rd Division, who air frame, assembly and radio| was home on leave. |classes; the basic fitting school,|} At a luncheon Mayor W. S. Mc-- where the pupils are taught how to| Kay said citizens of Galt were make and handle tools, and the ro-! happy to have the school and "if fresher course, where a score or|all our war efforts are kept up as more of older men are taking |this school has been, then I know courses extending from two to six | all of us would be a lot happier." weeks. | _ Already more than 1,100 graduates It is one of the most rnlhuaiasliolof the school have joined the \ groups of students in the country. | R.C.A.F. and there are 600 more who Close to 900 strong, the pupils li\-clwill report as soon as the present and eat in private homes, but they | course is completed.

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