THE NAVY LEAGUE

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2669, 15 January 1916, Page 15

THE NAVY LEAGUE

LETTER PROM COMMODORE HALSEY. The following is a copy of a letter received from Commodore Lionel Halsoy to the Wellington branch lion, secretar yof the Navy League in refcrenco to a resolution carried at til© annual meeting of the branch:— "H.M.S. Iron. Duke, "October 28, 1915. , "I am writing on behalf of the Com-mander-in-Chief, Sir John Jfellicoe, to ask you to convey to the Wellington branch of tho Navy League his sincere thanks for the expression of confidence passed by the branch and conveyed in your letter of September 7. "I should like to add that I have told the Commander-in-Chief ofniy experience in New Zealand, which has shown me what a deep and thorough interest is taken in the Royal Navy in the Dominion—Believe me, yours very sincerely, (Signed) Lionel Halsey, Commodore, Captain of the Fleet." Extiact from letter from Navy League Headquarters 'in reference to the attitude of the Christchurch City Council and others as to the non-observance of Trafalgar Day:— " "As I think I pointed out to you, after .the outbreak of war, the question of the celebration of Trafalgar Day was most carefully considered before any action was taken, and the proposals contemplated by tho league were submitted to the French Ambassador, who not only endorsed our scheme, but sent a representative of the French Embassy'to be present at the function. He would have been' present himself if he had not been soriously ill at the time. "There is a good deal of misapprehension of this kind even in this country, but everyone who witncssed_ the magnitude of this year's celebration and the far-reaching results of what we were able to accomplish from a patriotic point of view, must ot once conccdo that Nelson Day was as much a tribute to tho forces ot our Allies by land end sea as to our own."