Women's Auxiliary Air Force anniversary

This recording contains interviews by an unidentified female broadcaster at a cocktail party to mark the 21st anniversary of the founding of the Women's Auxiliary of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (WAAFs).
It features interviews with members of the WAAF who talk about the founding of the organisation, and the roles of women within the organisation.
Mrs E. Carlyon talks about the first days of the organisation after its foundation in January 1941 and the appointment of Mrs Kain as superintendant.
Mrs Kitty Kain talks about her appointment and how the work the women were to do rapidly expanded. The first women started at Rongotai but women were soon stationed all over the country at Wigram, Harwood, Ohakea, Levin, Hobsonville and Whenuapai, Taeiri, Nelson and Woodbourne.
She resigned in 1943 and Mrs Carlyon succeeded her as superintendant.
Several unidentified women speak - one of the first WAAFs stationed at Wigram describes working in the bakehouse, baking for 3,000 men during the war.
Another woman who took the first contingent of New Zealand women overseas to Fiji. They went on a U.S. troopship and were mostly clerical workers.
A wireless operator recalls sailing to Fiji on the Matua, as part of a successful trial of women as wireless operators.
Another woman talks about joining the WAAFs in 1942 and she is still a member of the Royal New Zealand Women's Air Force.