H.M.S. PHILOMEL.
TO BE HANDED OVER SHORTLY
APPLICATIONS FOR TRAINING ALREADY. d [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT! WELLINGTON, March 9. Hon. J. Allen informed a reporter yesterday that there is now every prospect of the Philomel being handed over to the New Zealand Government in a few months’ time. The Imperial authorities have to appoint a commander for the ship who will be the naval adviser to the Government and a crew, signed on probably for three years, will also be found by tlie Admiralty. “Already,” said Mr Allen, “I have had a number of applications from young men who would bo willing to enter on the course of training for the British Navy for’ which the Plhilomel is to be utilised although the Government has not yet made any appeal to the public on the subject. “The number of men for training that- the ship can accommodate is about 60 and I do not anticipate any difficulty in finding that number.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 3586, 11 March 1914, Page 5
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