SEAMEN IN THE MAKING.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15268, 3 May 1915, Page 9

SEAMEN IN THE MAKING.

THE AMOKURA AT LYTTHLTO.W An arrival at Lyttehon on Saturday, aa absence of about setea years, rathe .Sew ieaiand Government trainir.!? stcarcer Axw2nira, which is. en route to Well;nsrto3 to !ay up for the winl«T 120111515. after visitr ing the southern islands of Kavr 2i«aland. On board the ship are 5S boys, whoeo ijes ranse froai 13* to 15, and who are under as agrecm-jnt to <s*rve two y?ar*. At the coucl'i«S)ii of thai period the ]ads have to t;o to -«a ior cis months. tli*ir p»ront? eijrcinET an affrccmtfut to thai e&ei-t. The training they arc giveu la e<i"i:il to that at a seaman, a.nd

will viiab.c the Jads so join the Koyal Navy oc mercantiid niariar. several iari* are in ..u- i\a.vy nt the urchin Umv, and übout iwctity arc u-,th tii« KxpediiiouaiJ- Jr'oroee, "fli-c; otniTj ilio i;i viMioiis parts of th< •tone. ,n th... Uγ;.;.,!, lll<Lrcillu ;.., !ilannc . tJ, n ■ oa ' >o'ird0 ' ird conic iro! *" ; "1 parie of ' t °' ~ h - t at l' te *>nt Chmtcfcuroh is particular.;.- wo l! roi,.os«nt«d. The traiaiß-* SJvon is thought lij K hiv of by the «Ui->P'"n^ wfi..rf moro than ton minutes on Saturday when an application was mad- to fin •» vacancy on the Victoria, and" a lad"\-a* ">g?ed oa t a a. v able seaman. mc voii-1 has been in by tho Govcniment now for about oi,h. vcarsf ; nd chirms tnat time covered many thesteered by a , nan< thc Wllrk hay - ■ b ned out wholly and sole:-.- by 'ho bo\" day Amokura ' leuv « i'.'T AVcliiastoii" to-