TRAINING SHIP'S OFFICERS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13820, 28 November 1908, Page 5

TRAINING SHIP'S OFFICERS.

CADETS FOR THE DARTFORD. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Nov. 27. The Union Company's training-ship i Dartlord will receive cadets on Monday. Tho boys will then take their first breakfast on board. Three boys arrived from the South this morning to join the ship, three arrived from Auckland last night, others are expected to-morrow from the South, and their number will be added to by AA 7ellington recruits. The decks "of the Dartford are at present in a pretty pickle — pitch, rope, scrap-iron, spun yarn, sinnct, paint-pots, chips, and timber being all over the place. To turn the, Dar-tford into a full-rigged ship and to lengthen her poop by some eight feet and to generally bring the ship up to the Union Company's standard of efficiency has been a somewhat' expensive task. Notwithstanding the extensive fitting and rigging going on, the Dartford is being got ready for sea. She is- taking in ballast and stores, and the chief steward is receiving tinned foods, hams, sugar, tea, hard bread, and other stores and stowing them in the lagarette. The Dartford's first port of call from AVellington, which she will leave in the middle of next month, will be Kaipara, where she is to load timber. The boys will be carried in addition to the full crew, of course, and they will be berthed aft under the fatherly eye of Captain Cooper and his officers.