Nautical flavour to service
The 11 a.m. service in Christchurch Cathedral on Sunday will have a nautical note. The colours of the Girls’ Nautical Training Corps will be laid up and the ensign of the Christchurch Sea Cadet Corps deposited. The Girls’ Nautical Training Corps was founded during World War II to train girls aged between 14 and
18 for entry into the Women’s Royal Naval Service. When the war ended the Girls’ Nautical Training Corps became a youth organisation and still functions in the United Kingdom under the Navy League. A unit was established in Christchurch in 1955 by Miss Margaret Hall and her sister, Elizabeth, after they had attended an officer training course with the corps in England. The activities of the corps included sailing, rowing (they owned their own boats), seamanship, rifle shooting, and parade drill; and they even had their own drum corps. The unit was disbanded in 1980 when the girls were able to join the Sea Cadet Corps (New Zealand Cadet Forces) or the Sea Rangers. The Christchurch Girls’ Nautical Training Corps colours were paraded and consecrated in 1960. A former member and present member of the Sea Cadet Corps, Sub-Lieutenant L. Ditford, will be colour-bearer on Sunday.
Lieutenant - Commander M. M. Coleman, the retiring commanding officer of Training Ship Cornwell, will be the flag-bearer of the Sea Cadet Corps ensign. Members of the ships’ companies of the Christchurch Sea Cadet Unite Training Ship Steadfast and Training Ship Cornwell will parade. Former members of the Girls’ Nautical Training Corps will also be present, with members of the Sea Ranger ship Canterbury.
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