PRESENTATION OF WHALER

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 106, 28 January 1939, Page 10

PRESENTATION OF WHALER

New Zealand Shipping Co.’s Gift To Sea Scouts

CEREMONY ON MOTOR-SHIP | ORARI “This is the fourth whaler which the ! New Zealand Shipping Company Im- | pres, nted to' the Sea Seoul organize , lion in the Dominion," said Captain M McLeod, when a wjuiler was prisented to the Dominion Boy Scouts' organiza-

tion on board I lie motor-ship Orari at Wellington yesterday. . The organization mainly oweu tne boat Io Gaptain McLeod, said Mr. C. M Turrell, general manager of Ihe N-w Zealand Shipping Company, Lid., when making the presentation. Captain McLeod had asked the company to bear in mind the Iron Duke Troop. Nelson, who would use the boat, when there was a whaler available. Though the boat did not look as nice as he would like to see it, he understood that the scouts intended to burn the paint off it. -o that had the company done any overhauling the money would have been wasted. He handed the boat over to Mr. D. Boyle. Dominion headquarters commissioner ot kindred societies, on behalf of the New Zealand Shipping Company. Mr Turrell had struck a very modest tone,'said Captain McLeod. He was acting as a nautical adviser and the boat belonged to the New Zealand Shipping Company. On another occasion one of the “Rang!” ships had delivered to the Scout movement, freight free, four whalers. Through the generosity of the company the Sea Scout movement now had standardized boats in which Io carry out training. Before the move~ment had bad the present equipment they had had to train in all sorts of craft. To build oue of the boats which the company had given would cost £l5O. Through the practical generosity of the New Zealand Shipping Company they had acquired the boats they needed. As a result of the gift of the boats there were now more boys joining the movement and more were going to sea each year. He believed that the Sea Scouts provided 50 per cent, of (fee men who were at sea today. When a boy left a Sea Scout troop he was fit to take his place as an able seaman. Mr. Boyle, Mr. N. Jones .secretary of the Iron Duke Troop, and Mr. 11. McNamara, scoutmaster of the Iron Duke Troop, also' expressed thanks to the New Zealand Shipping Company.

Among those present were: Messrs. C. M. 'Turrell, general manager of the New Zealand Shipping Company, A. H. Sinel, Wellington manager of the New. Zealand Shipping Company, Captain J. G. Almond (master of the Orari), Mr. F. Pover (chief, officer of the Orari). ■Captain F. E. Tether (marine superintendent of the New Zealand Shipping Company), Captain W. McLeod (deputy harbourmaster), Messrs. D. Boyle (Dominion headquarters commissioner of kindred societies), T. Cook (Dominion secretary), P. Smither (acting-metro-politan commissioner), A. Dale (assist-ant-Dominion secretary), H. McNamara (scoutmaster of the Iron Duke Troop). N. Jones (secretary of the Iron Duke Troop) and A. A. Brown (scoutmaster of the Collingwood Troop).