Sea Training for Boys.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5966, 3 August 1912, Page 1

Sea Training for Boys.

A LIBKKAL DONATION. LONDON, July 28. At a meeting of Funiess, Witliy, anil Co., .it Hartlepool, l.ord'Furnrss proposed to amidgumute witih his pension fund for old Hartlepool seamen (to which ho litis given £20,000) u wider scheme of training box s under expert tutors, preliminary tf. their entering th« company's service as apprentices on steamships. He irged the Company to vote tIO,OOO towards this. He was |>«rsonallv contributing £IO,OOO. He considered it a sorions reflection that bo tow nationul facilities were given for sea training.