"OUR NAVY."

Feilding Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 1410, 15 April 1902, Page 2

" OUR NAVY."

Great interest has been aroused by the announcement that " Our Navy " will be shown at the Drill Hall to-morrow (Wednesday). The ! Auckland Star says : — " 'Our Navy ' is a series of living pictures depicting the career of a blue -jacket from his entry on board the training ship up to the time he is a competent A.8., and extending through the naval manoeuvres. The living pictures are really splendid — large and clear — the subjects admirably chosen, and the description supplied by Mr Butler is really a model of what such descriptions should be. In addition to this, the mechanical effects are managed on a most complete scale, sailors are heard marching on the , decks, orders are given in the proper style, and one feels as if one was really looking on the scene itself. ! Pretty well the whole life of Jack is presented, Jack at work and at play, on shore and on ship, cleaning and coaling, working his gnns or getting shaved, dancing a hornpipe, or saying good-bye to his best girl. The animated sea pictures are the best ever shown here, and no finer idea of the Navy could be obtained than that afforded by the sight of a long line of battleships rolling through the ocean swell. Even more absorbing were the pictures of the torpedo destroyers and torpedo boats; One picture that excited great admiration, depicted bluejackets going through gun drill on land, and the way in which the guns fell to pieces and were put together again must be seen to be appreciated, it is impossible in these limits to do full justice to the excellence of all the pictures, but mention must be made of a few which were particularly fine, ' Shifting the Jibs,' 'Torpedo Explosions,' 'The King Presenting Medals,' 'Bating Round the Fleet," 'The Yachts of Great Britain,' and 'Heaving the Lead. 1 " Already a large number of seats have been reserved at Milson and Coles. "Our Navy" appeared in Palmerston last night to an immence house. Our Palmerston correspondent asserts that " Our Navy '* is the best show that has ever visited that city.