SUPPORT OF SEA CADETS

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28651, 30 July 1958, Page 7

SUPPORT OF SEA CADETS

Big Part Of Navy League Work

Support of the Sea Cadet Corps was becoming more and more the most important part of the Canterbury branch of the Navy League’s activities, said Mr P. D. Hall, president of the branch, in bis annual report last evening Apart from administrative expenses, etc., all the funds of the league were spent in support of the Sea Cadet Corps, said Mr Hall. As the work increased, however, so did the expenses, and there was a loss of £416 3s in the accounts for the year ended March 31. 1958.

At the present rate of expenditure the league’s reserve funds would be depleted in five years. “Now that the Sea Cadet work is assuming such large proportions, and the Sea Cadet movement is becoming in effect an important part of the naval defence of New Zealand, I think a different approach to the question of raising funds should be studied by the executive.’’ Mr Hall said.

“I am sure that if the importance of this work were more widely known there would be an adequate response to an appeal for funds.” „ The strength of the Sea Cadet Corps was given as eight officers, three cadet chief petty officers, and 128 cadets. Apart from members’ subscriptions, the only revenue of the league came from the efforts of the Women’s Auxiliary, the Middle Watch, and tte Junior League, said Mr Hall.