STOKERS FOR NAVY.
EIGHT YOUTHS ENLISTED.
LARGE NUMBER OF APPLICANTS
youths, selected from 500 applicants from the whole of the Dominion, have been enlisted for the stoker branch of the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy. The successful applicants comprise three from Auckland, two from Wellington, and one from Hamilton, Greymouth and Dunedin. The recruits were the first stokers enlisted for 18 months Last month 13 youths were engaged in other branches of the Navy and it is probable that another 15 will be enlisted in April. The eight youths, whose ages range from 18 to 22, will receive 5s a, day and certain allowances. They have signed on for 12 years, and at the expiry of that term will have £4OO to £SOO due in deferred pay. Before the cruiser Diomede leaves Auckland in June on her Island cruise the youths will be drafted to her from the Philomel to complete their training. The new recruits have good prospects of going to England and being drafted to a battleship or cruiser in the British Lleet.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21113, 22 February 1932, Page 10
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