NAVY LEAGUE

Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 142, 18 June 1919, Page 3

NAVY LEAGUE

PRESENTATION OF AN ENSIGN. Representatives of the Navy League visited Mount Cook Girls' School yesterday, for the purpose of presenting a Now Zealand Ensign to the school. The Kdiacation Committee of the league has arranged! that every school enrolling one hundred or moro members will receive a flag, and the scheme has been heartily take np by tho school principaJs. The Mount Cook^ Girls' School—the first, school to receive tho honour—rose to the occasion, , and the speakers from tho league met with a most cordia-1 welcome from the teachers andl the girls. In presenting the flag, the Chairman of the league's Education Committee said the schools should remember the splendid' reputation our soldiers had made for th« New Zealand Ensign. Later on. the girls of to-day would be women, and they should bear tho making of that reputation in mind—how it was made, and what it meant to them and to the Empire. Also they must bear in mmd1 what the flag meant in connection with Naval supremacy, and do all in their power to assist towards the carrying out of that great ideal. It is pleasant to note that nearly every girl in the higher standards is a member of the league, as are most of the teachers, and the league expressed high appreciation of the enthusiasm displayed by Miss % Piggsford and1 her pupils. Before tho proceedings closed, tho hon. secretary of the league briefly outlined 'the aims of the league, and promised a lantern lecture with naval illustrations at an early date.