SEA CADET CORPS

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26724, 7 May 1952, Page 6

SEA CADET CORPS

Navy League Camp In England SPECIAL TRAINING FOR N.Z. PARTY i Seagoing experience in destroyers, frigates, and submarines, and visits to a naval air station and the Portsmouth dockyard will be included in the training programme of the Navy League Sea Cadet party which will represent New Zealand at tne Navy League Empire camp to be held in England in July. There will be 18 cadets, including three from Canterbury, in the party, which will be led by Commander D. P. J. Enright, M.V.0.. D.S.C. and bar, R.N. (retd.), and Lieutenant-Com-mander (S.P.) F. J. Glanvilk R.N.Z.N.V.R., officer commanding the Canterbury division of the Sea Cadet Corps. Commander Enright and LieutenantCommander Glanville. with Cadets D, P. Rogers. D. W. Fanning and R. H. J. Burnett, and four cadets from the Otago division, will leave Christchurch to-morrow evening for Auclt’ land, where they will join the Ruanine, which will sail for England on May 23. The four cadets from the Wellington division will travel with the South Island party to Auckland on the afternoon of May 9. On the morning of May 10 the cadets will draw their kit from H.M.N.Z.S. Philomel, and in the afternoon they will go to H.M.N.Z.S. Tamaki on Motuihe Island for their pre-embarkation training. When they reach England the New Zealand cadets will be accommodated in selected hotels in London Arrangements will be made for them to visit places of historical interest, and also to make a coach tour of England and Scotland. They will be granted leave to visit friends or relatives, and to meet English Sea Cadets. From July 5 to July 19 the overseas cadet? and a detachment selected from units throughout the United Kingdom will attend an official training course in H.M.S. Osprey, the anti-submarine training base at Portland. While training the cadets will be accommodated in the shore establishment. under the command of selected Sea Cadet officers and their own officers. They will do small boat work, visit places of interest, and take part in games, competitions, and reoat'as During the course it is excreted that Dominion High Commissioners end representatives from the Admirr’tV and the Navy League will visit the cadets. A subsidy of £l5OO has been granted by the Government to assist the New Zealand Naw League to send ♦he Sea Cadet part” to England. The fares will cost £3505, The rest of the monev is being raised by the Navy League. Expenses in England will be met by the Navy League of Great Britain.