WANING LURE OF THE SEA
AIR MORE APPEALING (By Air Mail —From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON. 3rd September. The. continued decrease in the number of certificates granted by the Board of Trade to navigating and engineering officers for the mercantile marine is alarming those who realise the extent to which our naval supremacy is dependent upon this service. For some reason the lure of the sea does not appear to grip our youth as strongly as it did in former yours. This may be due to some extent to the fact that the air, with its possibilities of almost unbounded speed, has become the swifter and more appealing route to high adventure. Another and more practical deterrent to the sea as a career is that though the qualifications for an officer’s certificate are stringent and require considerable time to gain, remuneration is not in general as good as that to be obtained through pursuits ashore that need no greater training. The matter is at present receiving close attention from the Shipping Federation and the 'Marine Engineers’ Association, both of which are studying means to improve conditions in regard to wages, working 'hours, and annual holidays.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 8 October 1936, Page 5
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