NAVY LEAGUE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16256, 5 July 1918, Page 5

NAVY LEAGUE.

4 iLEKTJLNU Ol)' kx F.cuttVTV The executive of the Canterbury branch of the x\uvy uioi laol iu 6 m, Air tX. iluilauu tiie ttooouuti 01 liio piesiueni) providing over a £uua aiieiiuaiito*. luu nmtnciai Lemoni tmuwud receipts (including xoo ob 5a iKutuice on j uxits omj lea ou, <uixi Xi7i id, i«wws a balance ot lua od. Ine iioiLttiiiiiouiia' Association wrote that ■vliai. tne suJmxi tor in respect of the leaching ol uuvul imtory in the bchoois was uonc aircauy, um text booKa being 1 augmented by oxai teuciiing. it was ucckkxl to out:mute in the sixth standarus 01 tue schooia iu jNoith Canterbury copivs ol Hancocks account ol ins experiences in the operations, in respeel ol the three woika rocuuunenaed for inciiicatiug information regaruing ureal Britain's sou power, it was decided to ascertain which one of the three works each school desired to be forwarded. Tuo Canterbury Jfatriotio Fund wrote asking the League to co-oporate in requesting the, (government to exiend to Aew Z>ealandera serving in the iioyal Navy the same concessions ias to financial assistance in roej.ccl of insurance, rout, aud so lorth) as are given to members of the New Zeaiand .hx trt-sa lio aary i'orce. Capiaio jiiarciel suggested that a joint deputation from the League and . the Patriotic Society should wait on the proper I authority in the matter. He did not think ! that the people of ttw Dominion would supI port any ditfuronce of treatment between •those serving on land and those serving on the sea. Mr A. C. Maxwell moved:—"That' the League write to the Government urging that New Zi-aland eailoie and their dependants receive the same treatment as the Dominion a soldiers; and that otlier branches oi the League' be asked to co-operate." Mx H. J. Marriner seconded the motion, which was agreed to. ' The chairman brought before the meeting a . circular from the ■Mayor of Auckland regarding the pioposed memorial to the late Lieut.Commauder W. E. Sanders, V.C., D.5.0., and tho establishment of a scholarship for young New Zealandcrs who ,• dosire to enter . the Royal Navy or the mercantile marine. Tho chairman described the deed ■ performed* by the late LieuL-Commander Sanders, and said that before he joined, the Navy Lieut.-Com- . mander Sanders was an officer in one of the Union Company's steamers, and at the time he performed the deed which gained for him the V.C. he was-in command etf a trawler. Auckland was quite able to provide tho sum required, but an opportunity was given the whole of New Zealand to participate in honouring Lieu. t.-Comni under Sanders fi memory. The president (Mr A. Boyle) had expressed the opinion that if anything were done locally it should be dime by the; Navy League, and that, .at least, a contribution of £500 should be made. It was decided to refer the matter to the Gift Day sub-committee, with a recommendation to give effect to th© appeal of the Mayor of Auckland. , The Gift Day sub-committee recommended that an appeal be made by the League for I the men in the Royal Navy and Air Services land their dependants; tb<at gifts be appealed I for by ciroular and by canvassing; that the 1 appeal for gifts close on November Ist, and that tho annual collection and salo of badges take place on November Ist;' that the most suitable gifts be disposed of by art union; that the balance be cataloged and sold by auction in Show Week itnd that application, be made for the use of King Edward Barracks for the auction. The report was adopted.