TRAINING SHIP EXPERIMENT
PORT ELIZABETH. Jan. 2.—The first two years’ course in - the- feputh African training ship General Botha,,Has just concluded, and -considerable success has resulted from- the,experiment.- >A fide the results--of the examinations ,are .no L yet published;?out 'of the seventy-one candidates for the Board of fratio cei tificates sixty-nine passed! in one -or other -of -the classes. While the Lonid of Control does not gun'rantee-,any boy employment upon completion -oi - nirt training, it does, more’-,than is umlertaken by similar organisations m Groat Britain in the placing -of ;boys at sea, Of the bovs who have passed out, six have already been 1 elected rns midshipmen for the Royal Naval Reserve tor. service in the African squadron, while about twenty-five others will nm taking up mercantile marine cadetships during the ensiling two months.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16378, 11 March 1924, Page 4
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