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Otago Witness, Issue 3808, 8 March 1927, Page 30

Was Noah, and not King Alfred Ihe Great, tho founder of the British NavyT Probably an affirmative answer to this question would be difficult .to obtain, but there are those who see in Noah many points of resemblance to some of the greatest English seamen. Noah, at any rate, was one of the early navigators known to history, although his method of making a land fall would be deprecated by modern sea dogs as being quite unorthodox. “The British are, and always have been, the greatest seamen,” remarked Commander A. Marsden, R.N., in a Navy League lecture at the Town Hall concert chamber at Wellington. “Somehow, I fancy that Noah must have been English, too. He certainly had a great flair for weather conditions.— (Laughter.) I am not sure that he did not come from New Zealand, because he had an undoubted spirit of hospitality also.”— (Laughter and applause.) At a meeting of the committee of the Taien Poultry Society on Saturday evening" the president (Mr J. P. Walls) referred to the sad death of Mr James Findlay, who had always been an interested party in the affairs of the society. As a tribute of . respect to his memory, members stood in silence for a few moments, and the secretary was asked to-send a letter of sympathy to the widow and family.