UNION COMPANY'S TRAINING SHIPS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 183, 1 August 1908, Page 8

UNION COMPANY'S TRAINING SHIPS.

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIX, Friday. Considerable interest is being taken in an experiment which the Union Steamship Company have decided to make in the direction of training youths for subsequent service a? officers. The company recently purchased two sailing ships, the Dartford and the Loch Lomond, and on the arrival of the latter in the Dominion it will be decided which of the two will be utilised for the training ship. Applicants for appointment must br> British subjects of European race, thoso of Xew Zealand birth to have preference. The ape is to be 15 and under 17: education, sixth standard certificate or its equivalent; term of service, indentures to be signed for four years; premium. £50, portion of which will he returned a* pay, which for the first year is to be £3 per annum, second 3'ear £6 per annum, third year £0 per annum, fourth year £12 per annum. Tho uniform is to he supplied by parents or guardians: the holiday to be ten daya yearly, and when practicable a free saloon passage will be given to the home port. Parents or guardians desirous of providing pocket money for apprentices and cadets will hand the saimo to the captain, to be given to apprenticed cadets at his discretion.