MERCANTILE MARINE
FUND FOR TRAINING YOUTHS FOR THE SEA. LONDON. July 28. Lord Furness, head of the Furness. Withy, and Company, shipbuilders anq owners, at a meeting of the company at Hartlepool, proposed the amalgamation of his company’s pension fund and that, of the Old Hartlepool seamen, to which he had given £20,000. A wider scheme for training boys under experttutors preliminary to entering the company’s service as apprentices on the steamships, was needed, he said, and ho urged the company to vote £IO,OOO for this object, and he would contribute £IO,OOO. Lord Furness considered it a serious reflection that so few national facilities were given tosea training.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8186, 30 July 1912, Page 7
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108MERCANTILE MARINE New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8186, 30 July 1912, Page 7
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