N.Z. NAVAL FORCE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19854, 15 February 1930, Page 19

N.Z. NAVAL FORCE.

fIUWIN GOF MEN.

MARCH

of branches of all the i tpW . NeW Zealand will be <•«? J f t L x t month in Dunedin. fell w 7 i»«t the sub-committee » branch met to diej tie C«>t y at last night's meetGeneral Committee of the a ,ft hrtnch, the following reoH'S S>P ted £or circulatlon the Ne ; v Zea ; (1) * 'Sent that a proportion of pi eadets being trained anvl Zealand be trained in & If iplanea, and as naval ob- ** foible thm to act as tthe Boyal Navy. •«nress upon the New Zeathat, as far as posJji It form of vocational training &< *« men who desire the same New Zealand DiviBoyal Navy, either in teehor in such other manner Aought advisable, so that, »f Bi * .j n f their twelve years term sfffiee would be able to estabin civil life, provision be made by the nd Government for addiof the Royal Navy (Class D) to be m \ iL nhristchnrch and in Dunedin. provision be made by the Z«land Government for Sea tL(ton* to be formed as ad j uncts for, the Royal Navy ?h*teer Beserve (Class D), which is K,to in Auckland, Welling.jSbury, and Otago The idea, approved by Larl Jelhcoe jmi Governor-General of New Zea*7 !> that lads in proximity to the 5 ports, as they become eligible for St etdet training, T>e given the S ro to the required number, of gjpimg elementary training as sea "rtfttat the New Zealand branches JJjer and report to the conference gjggtuy their opinion as to increased 5St:—(a) By supplying 235 newsSm covering 117 cities, towns, and r-Li,. and surrounding country disin New Zealand with important for League resolutions and items of tfKttttion and interest; (b) by obieiiagspei- at exhibitions and shows , M t S»vy League stall, at which and pictures of naval sub!l gaps, relics, and other naval ob«t»ef ixtereit could be exhibited, and Isaatara distributed.

The Optional Clause, lie Bev. A. H. Norria raised the of the so-called Optional Ifamtt the Statute of the Permanent (jut of International Justice, which fend Ike signatories to submit discs to this Court, and which Mr scm nU was set out, in the DecemtffjMU of the "Navy," to mean that imil confine the British Empire, for tk tot ten years, to one specific of settling certain important dMM flf dispute, both in peace and in nr, tad which would force the Empire ti MMft the decisions of a new and JaspCourt in any dispute with a twif eonatry concerning any questin it international law. Tto eiairntan, Mr J. J. Dougall, that the House of Commons had atiM {fee tignature by British deleatcrof tin Clause, although IrAMtro Cfainberlain had moved an

jmnAmn* »«Vmg acceptance of the Optimal (Sum abjwt to an additional itttrntioa nJattif to the laws of war Oft tea, hid im bj tie Foreign Secretary it Geneva la Baptember, 1924, as beiag abubtety aeeemaxy to safeguard tie freedom of tetion of the British Stvj. was lost, and tie Optimal Gmttf waa agrced to in its entirety, "■ Befewaee wai nude to four resolu-

tioai carried at the London Navy Leaps Conference on October 24th last, aid, aa tkej concerned matters wbie& affect ovtoeaa branches, it was molted tilt the conference secretary be iiked to sebmitthoae matters to ike New Zealand -branches for con■teatioi, before Hie date of the next Sw Zealand Conference, at which &tgai« eevll report thereon. «e Bitten an:—(a) Financial astoward* the expenses of a Uttgu eavoy; (b) direct reprebranches at future con-

ftHutt* (a) closer co-operation beertneaa branches and the possi®«j7 ef branches being represented at 1 meeting of representatives 7 kMi to all tin Dominions in turn: «) to feterEapin trade.