Rousing Farewell For Sea Cadet Commander

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29783, 28 March 1962, Page 15

Rousing Farewell For Sea Cadet Commander

Eighty-nine boys of the Sea Cadf-t Corps, watched by parents and members of the Canterbury branch of the Navy League, gave Lieuten-ant-Commander F. J. Glanville. the commanding officer of the Canterbury division of the corps, a rousing send-off at his final parade at H.M.N.Z.S. Pegasus last evening. Commander Glanville. who has commanded the division for tlie last 12 years, is one of the three founders of the Sea Cadet Corps in New Zealand. It was formed in October. 1929. One of the three is Rear-Admiral P. Phipps, the present Chief of Naval Staff. The new commander of the division is Lieutenant L. A. Carr, executive officer of the headquarters unit and a cadet in 1938. He will take command on March 31. Presentations were made at the parade to Commander Glanville by the Canterbury branch of the Navy League and by his fellow officers. A large reading lamp was presented on behalf of the branch by its president (Mr P. D. Hall). A silver salver with the signatures of Commander Glanville’s officers engraved on it was the gift of the wardroom. Addressing the cadets. Commander Glanville said they should take pride in belonging to the oldest active youth organisation in the British Commonwealth. He

impressed on them that education came first, but that loyalty to the corps should come next. It was not wise to belong to too many organisations, he said. Commander Glanville asked whether the Navy League could look into the possibility of getting separate headquarters for the Sea Cadet Corps. H.M.N.Z.S. Pegasus no doubt gave the boys a sense of belonging to the Navy, but they missed pride of possession, he said. He sincerely hoped that one day he would see a new headquarters for the corps that it would really be able to call its own, perhaps at Kerrs Reach. Mr M. L. Newman, on-be-half of the Navy League, said that Commander Glanville had for 32 years given an enormous amount of time, energy, and interest to the corps. He had been a good ambassador for the corps and for New Zealand as officer in charge of a Sea Cadet Corps contingent he had taken to England for a Commonwealth shooting tournament. Commander Glanville had missed only two of 1584 parade nights that had been held since 1929, and he had missed those because of sickness.

The evening parade ended when Commander Glanville, in a car pulled by a 12-man guard, was towed past corps members and parents lined up before the building.