SEA CADET CORPS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24615, 24 May 1941, Page 6

SEA CADET CORPS

EXPANSION OF MOVEMENT NAVY LEAGUE’S DECISION A meeting of delegates of tne Navy League branches in New Zealand was held at the Navy League, Office, Wellington, last week for the purpose of widening the scope of the Sea Cadet Corps in New Zealand. Mr Gordon J Reid, chairman of the New Zealand Navy League War Council, presided The value -of the Sea Cadet Corps to the Navy and Fleet Air Arm was explained, and it was observed that ”tt maintain and develop the Sea Cadet Corps and Training Ship Movement” was one of the main planks in the Navy League platform. It was unanimously decided to estab lish at Christchurch a central office for the control of the Sea Cadet movement. The office will be established under the auspices of the Canterbury branch' of the Navy League, which is the oldest branch in New Zealand, and whose Sea Cadet Corps has been estab■ed fof many years. With the estab lishmert of a central body it is hoped to expand the Sea Cadet movement and to gain the assistance of the naval authorities which has not been possible in the oast, in the absence of a single controlling authority to represent the

Cadet Corps The Sea Cadet Corps movement isalready well established in England Canada, Australia and South Africa and some years aeo Lord Nuffield gave £50.000 tc the Home branch of the Navy League for its special development.