SEA CADET CORPS

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 201, 22 May 1941, Page 8

SEA CADET CORPS

Navy League Extension

A meeting of delegates of the Navy League branches in New Zealand washeld in Wellington for the purpose of extending and widening the scope of the Sea Cadet Corps, Mr. Gordon J. Reid, chairman of the New Zealand Navy league War Council, presided. The value of the Sea Cadet Corps to the Navy and the Fleet Air Arm was explained, and it was observed that to maintain and develop the Sea Cadet Corps and Training Ship Movement was one of the main planks in the Navy League platform. It was unanimously' decided to establish a central office for the control of the Sea Cadet Movement in Christchurch under Hie auspices of the Canterbury branch of the Navy League, which is the oldest branch in New Zealand and whose Sea Cadet Corps lias been established for some years. With the establishment of a central body, it is hoped to expand the Sea Cadet Movement and to gain the assistance of the naval authorities which has not been possible in the past in the absence of a single controlling authority to represent the t’orps. The Sea Cadet Corps movement is already well established in Englttnd. Canada. Australia and South Africa, and some years ago Lord Nuffield gate £50,000 to the home branch of the Navy League for its special development