MILITARY TOURNEY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 242, 16 November 1914, Page 10

MILITARY TOURNEY.

The Defence authorties have: dpcided ■to abandon the naval and military tournament for this year. For years the .annual tournament drew volunteers (and, later, Territorials) from all parts of New Zealand to Palmerston North for the Christmas-New Year * week. When the Defence Department decided to take over control three year's..ago, it was arranged to hold the tournament in successive years in each of tlie four military districts. The first was held at Ohristehurch, and last year the tournament wa« held in Auckland. This year it was the turn of Dunedin, and the preliminary arrangements had been made, but it has now been deemed advisable in all' the circumstances, to • abandon the meeting for this year.

H.M.A.S. SYDNEY'S CAPTAIN. Captain Glossop, of H.M.A.S. Sydney, the vessel which put the Emden out of action at Cocos Island, was at one time in command of H.M.S. Prometheus in New Zealand waters. He wrote to the lion, secretary of the Wellington branch of the Navy League, congratulating the foranch upon its educative work. He also commended the action of the Wellington branch in drawing attention /j the fact that the Harbour Board &0&. 7 then in course of construction, would Jkcmire to be slightly lengthened to proi vide for the docking of Dreadnoughts. Later on, Captain Glossop, at the suggestion of Lord Plunket, took \ the Prometheus" to Gisborne (while en route to Auckland) to enable some 500 juvenile „ Navy Leaguers and their parents to ""have an opportunity of inspecting the Many Gisborne sub-branches of the league were, formed under the auspices of the Wellington branch immediately prior to the visit of; the Prometheus.