NAVY AS CAREER

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 26, 30 July 1940, Page 9

NAVY AS CAREER

MORE MEN WANTED

"SAFETY OF KINGDOM"

"Any boy who joins the Navy is sure of a rich and varied career," said the Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones), when discussing the New Zealand Naval Forces as a career in an address last night. The Minister said there still existed the need for longterm recruiting, for this continued in war as in peacetime. A famous phrase from the articles of war of the Royal Navy was worth remembering. It read as follows: "It is on the Navy—under the good providence of God —that the wealth, safety, and strength of the Kingdom chiefly depend." "The Government aims to man ships of the New Zealand Squadron entirely with New Zealanders," said Mr. Jones. "After the war we shall depend on our men and boys who wish to make service in the Navy their life's career. These will be needed to replace reservists who took the place of Imperial men. "Our men and boys are trained m iHMS. Philomel. At the end of a year's training in H.M.S. Philomel, the boys are drafted to sea-going ships where they take their place in the real life routine afloat. In the modern Navy every boy has a great chance for advancement. Every boy who shows promise is destined for promotion today. He can qualify himself by the successive steps of ordinary seaman or able seaman. Every boy, if he possesses the ability and instinct, has the chance of becoming a warrant officer, and in outstanding cases a wardroom officer. "Any boy who joins the Navy is sure of a rich and varied life. He will have good food and good pay, he will have every care, he will find companions after his own heart, he will see the world as no tourist can ever hope to see it, and he will be serving his country."