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FLIGHT, MARCH 28, 1929 . THE ROYAL AIR FORCE MEMORIAL FUND THE usual meeting of the Grants Sub-Committee of thefund was held at Iddesleigh House, on February 28. Mr.W. S. Field was in the Chair, and the other members of the «ommittee present were :—Mrs. L. M. K. Pratt-Barlow, O.B.E., and Sqdn.-Ldr. Douglas Iron, O.B.E. The com- mittee considered in all 10 cases, and made grants to the amount of £190 10s. The first meeting of the new year of the Executive Committee of the above Fund was held at Iddesleigh House, March 13. The Committee proceeded to give formal approval to the Annual Report for 1928, and their acceptance and approval of the accounts, both as regards the General Fund and the VanbrHgh Castle School account, and the Report, when printed, was ordered to be issued to all concerned. The Report shows very great progress, both in receipts from all sources, and in the distribution of relief of all kinds, both to past and present members of the Royal Air Force. The Chairman, Lord Hugh Cecil, to the regret of the Committee, found himself compelled to persist in his wish to resign the Chairmanship of the Executive Committee in view of heavy pressure of work, and the Committee in accepting his resignation, passed a resolution of warm thanks for his services to the Fund as Chairman during the past 10 years. The new Chairman, Sir Charles McLeod, was unanimously elected to the chair, and, at the same time, at the p wish of the Committee, consented to retain the post of Honorary Treasurer to the Fund, which he has filled siace its inception in October, 1919. The resolution of thanks to the late Chairman was proposed by Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan, and further remarks of warm thanks were made by Air Chief Marshal Sir John Salmond, both on behalf of the Executive Committee of the Fund, and of the Royal Air Force itself. Vanbrugh Castle School opened for the Spring Term on January 8, with 33 boys, and several vacancies, dne to a number of boys having passed into the Royal Air Force, are in process of being filled. The Committee received, with very great pleasure, a further offer of the munificent sum of £'5,000, in addition to a generous donation of £10,000 which was presented to the Fund in the autumn of last year by an anonymous donor. The £5,000 will be added to the previous sum, and will constitute a Fund towards the education of the sons and daughters of officers of the Air Force, past and present, and the annual income, which is at present about £480, will be augmented by an additional £240 in respect to this further very handsome contribution. The next meeting of the Executive Committee was fixed to take place on April 24. Hard Luck THOSE who intend going to the A.I.D. Dinner on April 19 at the Hotel Russell, W.C., and read our paragraph last week which stated that the tickets were 10s. 6d. each, inclusive of wines, must have smacked their lips in anticipation of a cheap night. Unhappily we must dash their pleasure. Sorry '. The 10s. 6d. ticket is exclusive of wines. New Air Ministry Aerodrome THE Air Ministry has purchased 150 acres of land at Thornabv-on-Tees for an aerodrome. SOUTHAMPTONS - FOR THE ARGENTINE : Acceptance tests have just been carried out with the firstLorratne-engmed Supermarine flying-boats ordered for the Argentine Naval Air Service, Commander Zar and Lieut. Portillo observing the tests officially. 264
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