SEA CADETS’ WAR WORK
* ARMOURED VEHICLE equipment VOLUNTEER EFFORT IN CHRISTCHURCH The production of essential equipment for light armoured fighting, vehicles manufactured in New Zealand is the valuable war work that has been undertaken by boys of the Navy League Sea Cadet Corps in Christchurch, Every Wednesday night keen volunteers put on old clothes instead of uniform and spend several hours patiently ;.nd carefully preparing and splicing lengths of wire rope. , There are 60 boys in the corps, and usually 15 to 20 are at work each Wednesday under the guidance of their commanding officer, Lieutenant-Com-mander H. B, Anderson, R.N. (retd.), the chief instructor. Sea Cadet Lieutenant E. C. Collins, D.S.M., and other instructors. Besides making a valuable contribution to the war effort the boys receive instruction which will be valuable to them if they enter the Royal New Zealand Navy or the Merchant Navy. Their work involves attaching hooks, which are manufactured locally, to lengths of wire rope. This equipment was also produced last winter, and this year the corps has been asked to provide double the quantity. On Monday nights the boys, who are between the ages of 14 and 18, parade in uniform, and are taught knotting and splicing, signalling, the use of the compass, and other matters. In the summer the boys are given sea training in the corps whaler. Their war work also includes ,valuable service connected with coastal defence.
The Navy Leagtfe Sea Cadet Corps in Christchurch has been in existence since 1932, and has now received definite recognition from the New Zealand Naval - Board. The Navy League, Christchurch, is the parent body, and is Sea Cadet Corps Headquarters for New Zealand. There are also Sea Cadet Corps in Dunedin and Wellington. All are affiliated to the Navy League Sea Cadet Corps in Britain, which has 400 units and a 'strength of 50,000 cadets. Its training has now become the direct concern of the Admiralty, and His Majesty the King has become Admiral of the Sea Cadet Corps.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23668, 19 June 1942, Page 6
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