NAVAL LIFE.
NOW HARDER TO JOIN. ONLY 10 PER CENT. ACCEPTED. (Special to the Times.) WELLINGTON, April 20. It is now harder to join the British Navy than ever before. Figures which have just reached New Zealand bear striking testimony to this fact. Given by Mr Bridgman, First Lord of the Admiralty, in the House of Commons in answer to Col. Hedlam, these figures reveal that last year only ten per cent of the men who sought to join the Navy and Royal Marines were accepted. A total of 53,915 men offered themselves for service and of these 5,655 were accepted and 394 a waitdecision. This according to the New Zealand Navy Office, is due. to the fact that, with so many men anxious to enter the Navy, only the cream are being accepted. ,To aid an understanding of the position it may lie' stated that whereas, in 1914 Britain had 112 -warships available for service, to-day she lias about 50.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10566, 20 April 1928, Page 8
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