A NURSERY NAVY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 30 August 1924, Page 16

A NURSERY NAVY.

THE “CORKSCREW FLOTILLA.”

'. ou, 7 011 the Isis and the Cam is ‘•bumping” practised (writes Locksle> llall m the Daily Chronicle) There * s , a J >ttle enclosed lake at Southend eie there are more collisions to the square yard and more “fouls” a minute than m a League football match. Some ot the boats are fitted with paddle wheels, others are propelled bv lianddodflie S ’ but n the , boys and Sirls who do the propelling have no more desire to look where they’re going or go eimts th T Y re , , lookin S than a flight of gnats. I rather wonder it has not been christened the Jazz Marine or baffled "' iN ,f Vy ‘ Its evolutions reekter • e ‘ Ve + i a ° n ®’ S eensciousness leg tamps U “ »f I'-™-11 is ll,f! accidents which these little mariners eniov. Thev can Jive Renty and Marryat over a^ainin Tj bnU ' ho l l , r f o f and buttmg. .Hum- youthful unconcern is magnificent Both sexes take the “nursery oTde, OnS 'i" ltk r rfect self-possession. the-fo ~2 1, S , W ° uld shl ‘iek and laugh; these, youngsters are out to enjoy their half-hour’s paddling with no foolish waste of tune in hysterical mirth mirfnrn *I IS co t nspicuously numbered calk P nnt Ut “ the unarmed master “ForVv f .V 1 a megaphone voice, or “Twenty-seven,” and he k dd , er n f i that , . canoe knows that ne is leealled; ins part in the taXT? “ °, ver - , one last siting quay n^V— 8 back to the broken* V* +i S pirat,cal dreams are bioken--f° r the want of another coin 5* aunt sighs with relief ‘ ’ ’ holds in her inner consciousness a centuries-old sense of adventure has P tn CC l l Vlth hei ‘ responsibility. She lias to take great care of the little ra m fi"' h 0 - *»• “ k e