TRAINING BRITISH SAILORS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13640, 9 July 1906, Page 5

TRAINING BRITISH SAILORS.

Press Associatitra-By Telegraph-Copyright. LONDON, July 6. (Received July 7, at 9.5 .a.m.) The Board of Trade has appointed a committee to supply and train British sailors for the mercantile marine.

A pradical stop towards incroaaintr Ih o supply or British seamen for British'thins was formally inaugurated on board the pail'"i? ship Port Jackson, in Ilio South "West India. Dock last, month. The occasion was mm of exceptional interest, a s U,o Marino Society was adventuring on an experiment that promise.? to he of great value to th« shipping industry, which has lons had to lament the necessity of employing foreigners in what is traditionally an essentially British occupation. Thanks to the. efforts of the Marine Society, the Port Jackson is journeying to Anstra ia as the fei iirilish mercantile sea-going training ship for forecastle hands. She. will make an ordinary training voyage to Sydney, and will carry 100 hoys from tho framing ship Warspito, who will learn the duties'of ordinary f,\v men. On their return, after it nine months' voyage, which will give I hem an introduction to the soa under inost favourable conditions, they should' he a welcome acquisition to the mercantile marine.