LEAVE FOR TRAINING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 7

LEAVE FOR TRAINING.

ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE. APPEAL MADE TO EMPLOYERS. At the request of the director of the Rnval Naval Volunteer Reserve, Capt-ain E. <i. Morris. R.N.. the New Zealand Employers' Federalion is seeking the co-operation of employers in the "ranting jo who are members of the reserve l»;.vc sufficient to enable them to obtain their annual sea training. . The Navy Department is appreciate e of the assistance pi von by employers in the past, and recognises that in recent years employers have had such difficulties to contend with that in some cases it has jiot been possible for leave to be "Tallied. The president of the federation. Mr. A. Milcliell. has stated that the work of the R.X.Y.R. is jof sueh national importance and value as to l>e worthy of the utmost measure of support that employers can give. The circumstances under which the reserve was formed are outlined in <i circular issued by the federation. It states that ajiart from drills in the evening and on Saturday afternoons, officer? and men are required to perform seven days' sea training annual] v—l 4 days in the <*H-e of *-igua] and wireless telefrraphy ratinp-. It is dr—iralile. how - ever, that all ratings should perforin 14 days' >( . a train in;; during the first vear •if enrolment. (Iffirers and men. when -<i embarked. receive tlk- ordinary rales nf pay obtaining in the New Zealand 1 >ivision of the liuva] Nm v. I<i enable otlicers and men to pass the higher examination- it is generallv necessary fur them to carrv out voluntary sea training. which i~ usuallv perforined at a suitable lime bv private arranjriiient between the officer or man <-on<-erned <md his emplover. or during his annual leave.