THE NAVY LEAGUE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 529, 9 June 1909, Page 4

THE NAVY LEAGUE.

| MONTHLY MEETING. - ' ; ' [.'■:. of. the 'Weflirigton Executive of tho ,Navy League last . night was fttiendtd by six ot • tha Oonimittee, Mr. J. B: ifaroourt -being in the c^air. It,;was resolved to add the.names !of Cap•taiil E. Edwin (late RiN.)". and Colonel A. Hume, to tho Wellington Executive. , The,lion., secretary..reported that arrange--monts for the -League'trAimiual Public iJenlohstration. at the Town Hall • on July 1 were weir in -hand, and that rehearsals had been 7 arranged for . the. Massed -School Choruses. ■ - ■ ■

Favourable- replies having been -received from several of the H&rboilr Boards, regarding the installation of Morse nightrsignalling at tLeili^itliouses/it< was resolved to prefer .tho_ matferdo -the Harbours Conference Assqoiatidny'fgi'v.considoration. .ri* ■ Sqhool '.for. - the ■ijSff.j'of-'one * v ■ league's' sot' of tjantoni, slideSjvwas. granted.,. ... . reported that several applications, iotf enrolment. from .• prominent Weir ifr thd 'COliritfj'; districts had been rer caved. ■ '

l ar £G quailtity of correspondence from he sub-branches at Napiety New Plymouth Ua-sterton, and branches at Christchurch and Dunodin was dealt with. .

The .Lon do n . Becretarjr wrote, 'intimating | that tho So wall maps ordered by the branch •w«re being shipped, together with 900 copies at the handbook, .Britain on and Beyond the Sea, .for, second-year school members. It was intimated that, in addition to this seveTnl -of tho* Education -Boards were, at the .instigation, of - the; Wellington branch jeague;,- ordanng, . .through the Education Dnpartment,' ovfet 100 more copies of the large wall map. . : k '/? f i was reAccounts amountpassed tor. payment. extracts from tho London letter of thsr.branch:— .... y,''The''lost;:menth;;.or. so here has been a retr,,strtnnons.,.tiae. .On "one-, ni«ht last T«?&3 fifa;" meetings on the same fffe-";'- ■' Shall ■ be•:-f;lad to hear: that the Matter of- .'sea training- home is .'iJrocdedingsatisfactorily, v. '• Dreadnoughts W6_can t bu\ld in two years, but we cannot twin.; seamenjn tAat time; and we must stiqk'.i.trt.!the''/Sfav.r li>a(Suo;,ideal.';tbat.' everv jrum' for bis livingshould he a trained fiKhtins mrfn: Nothing short of that Will, eradicate the foreign eloflietft from our mercantile marine. .; . P.S.—We are 'jtping tb; get' those "'eight Ships I" .' ■ !