SHIPMASTER VOLUNTEERS
Sir ( —It is pleasing to note that in addition to Captain F. A. Macindoe's protest to the Minister of Defence, several interested people are taking up the cudgels on behalf of master mariners who have endeavoured since the outbreak of the present war to get back on active service, and do a job of work for King and country. In my own ease, I have made repeated applications to the Xavy office in Wellington, both by letter and in person, but with the same result: "Your application is acknowledged, etc., etc." I was even advi>ed to find my own way home to England and join tip there. If all master mariners were to carry out that advice. New Zealand may find that her shipping would have to be manned by yachtsmen with a '"'ticket." M.aster Mauixkk ( Retired >, Hate R.X.R.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23830, 4 December 1940, Page 13
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141SHIPMASTER VOLUNTEERS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23830, 4 December 1940, Page 13
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