DOMINION BLUEJACKETS
GROWING PROPORTION A DMIRAL WELCOMES PROSPECT fri replying to an official welcome upon the arrival of 11.M.5. Dunedin at New Plymouth. Rear-Admiral F. Burges-Watson said the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy was becoming more and more manned by New Zealanders, to the exclusion of Imperial men. “Slowlv but surely the division is becoming New Zealand in personnel as well as in name.” he said. “In a few years 1 hope there will be no more Imperial men in the New Zealand Division. At present 50 per cent of the complement of the Dunedin and 75 per cent of the Diomede are New Zealanders. "i&i “ft is not that we want to do away with the Imperial representatives,” he continued. “In fact, we have found the combination of New Zealanders and Imperial men has been a singularly happy one. The two are on the •best of terms and the New Zealanders are .afforded an opportunity of learning some of the broader aspects of the Navy.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18366, 7 April 1934, Page 6
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