JUST IN TIME

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 50, 27 August 1937, Page 9

JUST IN TIME

As the Rangitata was pulling out from the Glasgow Wharf shortly after noon yesterday with a number of Naval ratings among her passengers, & taxi sped on to the wharf, two ratings, with plentiful supplies of liquid refreshments,, being in the back. The ship was by this time clear of the wharf, but the ratings were hurried to the end of the wharf, taken on board a pilot boat, and ferried over to the liner. When they finally boarded the ship, by means of a rope ladder, they received a hearty cheer frbm their mates already aboard. For the first time since she was given by the Mayor of Auckland (Sir Ernest Davis) to the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy last year for use as a two ing ship for boys attached to H.M.S. Philomel, the 67ft yacht Viking has Been listed in the official records of the Admiralty (states the "New Zealand Herald"). In the latest issue of the Navy List- there is inserted a line on the page dealing with the division to say that the ketch Viking is attached to the station. In; future, therefore, she is officially, to lose her former style of yacht and become a Icetch, although in a semi-official publication which deals with the navies of all the nations she is described as a sail training vessel. Such of tilt cable new* on this page ai Is as headed has appeared in Tha Times" and !s cabled to Australia and New Zealand by special pennlnsloo. It should bs understood that the opinions are not those of "The Times" unIMS eipressly stated to be. <o.