NAVY LEAGUE BABY

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 211, 25 May 1918, Page 5

NAVY LEAGUE BABY

A "HAED LUCK" ELEVENTH-HOT!R ; , EFFORT. '

The Mvy League has a very charming baby to work, and many have been doing their utmost to add to ,its voting strength, before the poll in the cpmnctihon closes this evening. They ivould have made a good deal of money yesterday, had they- not had/ the hardest of luck with the weather. For the greater part of tha day (lie rain poured down, nnd immense' credit is dun ro the ladies and gentlemen (including, of course, the gallant lads' in blue and the members of the Trenthairf Bund) who stuck to their ■task in a manner so characteristic of the British Navy. The ladies managed imit, flower, nnd vegetable -stalls in various , parts of the sdddib city, and though there were frequent wiish-ouls they came up smiling to inyite dripping passera-by to purchase, their wares. The Trenthnm Band paraded the streets, nnd money-boxes were rattled under the nose of everyone who ventured into town, The sailors -did' good work in the heavy I weather. Two of them clumped round the city in complete c,ostiimes of naval divers, with the huge copper helmets weighing like worlds on the shoulders of so many Atlases, and heavy bras?toed, lead-soled Ijoots of .gargantuan size, which ensured that I heir footfalls •ivnuld bo heard through the Uiunder. /■Their best effort, however, was the. exhibition of a real German floating;mine, secured off Cape Farewell fairly recently. This was christened in "jocular mood, so typical of the Navy, "Baby's Mine" (nn appropriate parody of the comedy "Baby Mine"). This deadly instrument of destruction will ,yet earn a. lot of money , if shown, under more favourable 'circumstances 'than was possible yesterday, when it Was carried round in a covered lorrj. The mine is a fine piece of workmanship. The cylinder itself is one complete casting in nickel .steej, circular in shvpe, standing about four feet in height, and having a diameter of about three feel.' From the. rounded top project some, seven, steel arms or horns, conned ed with a perfect-ly-fitted plug (which after some months' immersion in the water work in and out with ease. These are connected to the horns with a collar fitting of soft lead, so _ that any one of the horns on conungin contact with a vessel or any object, must push in the steel plug that frr.es the detonating charge. These mine* were anchored so as to float about ei°hr ieet below the surface; of the watei. T.t is understood that up to date ' some eleven mines have been recovered from the deep on the New Zealand coast?. Accompanying the mine is a square of \. awl T. high explosive, with which the mines are loaded, and the Maxim gnu with which the mines ure explode-' wnen,fouhtl.. With the Maxim il is, of eour.se, necessary : to hit one of the seven horns in order to lire thb mine, and some hundreds of rounds are used at times m makinp a direct hit, "tint in Hie I north Son and Channel time is valuable, ami a -l-inch or 6-inch gun is used to pirn? a hole riirhl through the mine itself, and 60 sink it. .

Nurse Hilda Flynn, formerly of Jlorren, but for some years nurse in Hawer.i nnd Wnipufcurnu Public Hospitals, has returned to the Dominion. She spent some time in Egypt, proceeding from there to the Hants Hospital, in Englwid Nurse Flynn is well known iii musical circles in South Canterbury, and wns formerly a pupil of the Sacred Heart I Convent, Tiniaru. She heard lire sud I news of her father's death in Auckland. [ Nurse Flynn is a sister of Jtr. Jnmos Flymi, 'Mnrven, and her, mother resides at St. Albans. . ' The National Council of Women of New Kenliiml has soul; congratulatory messages to the ne-.vly-enfrn "cli isocl women of Great Britain and the United State of..America on their sains. The mc?sago to the women of Great Britain commences "To , you whoso half-century of struggle ha,s been the admiration of all who love humanity, we, the youngest of women's councils, although representing ■ (ho oldest enfranchised State in the Em-1 pire, send hearts' greetings on the glori-■ ous victory that ushered in the year." Tlio message contains a reference to the wide scope which lies ahead for women's influence in the problems uf coming peace. The'message to the women of America is likewise couched in warm congratulatory vein. Both messnges are signed, on behalf of the council, by Mrs. K, W. Sheppanl, president, and Miss C. Henderson, lion, secretary.

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