NAVAL CANDIDATES
HIGH PRAISE IN OFFICIAL REPORT
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, May 11. The Minister of Defence, Mr F. Jones, has received a highly complimentary report on the 46 New Zealand scheme B candidates who joined H.M.S. Ganges for training in August and September, 1941. “ This class has fully maintained, if not surpassed, the high standard set by its predecessors,” states the report. “ The men have proved themselves keen and intelligent, and have put the same enthusiasm into their work as into their play. They have,. in addition, earned out a great deal of extra work in connection with various Warship Weeks. Following are the average marks in examinations: —Seamanship, 96 per cent; gunnery, 90.5 per cent.” .
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24913, 12 May 1942, Page 2
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115NAVAL CANDIDATES Otago Daily Times, Issue 24913, 12 May 1942, Page 2
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