CAPTAIN CRUTCH LEY.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1036, 27 January 1911, Page 6

CAPTAIN CRUTCH LEY.

LETTER ANp PRESENTATION. Captain Cains Crutchley, formerly well known in the New Zealand steam service, is retiring, from the secretaryship of the Navy League in London. To mark their esteem and appreciation of,his great services to the league, both at-Homo and overseas, the branch secretaries of the league in New Zealand aro forwarding to hini to-day the following letter:— "Dear Captain Crutchley,—We, the honorary secretaries of. the'various Navy League branches throughout New Zealand have recently learned, with considerable regret, of your intended retirement from tho general secretaryship of the league. At the same time, we fully realise that after your sixteen; years of arduous and valuable service you are quite entitled to a well-earned rest. We should like you to accept tho-accompanying small memento of New Zealand in the shape of a greenstone paper-weight and blotter, as a slight token of our esteem and. regard. Although a number of us have not yet had tho privilege of meeting you personally, we have most of us been in fairly close' correspondence .with you' for some years past. Perhaps in the, not-too-distant future you may decide.to again visit New Zealand, arid we might then.Uiavo the pleasure of meeting you. in person. Wishing you and yours the best -of health and happiness for the future."'

-The letter boars the signatures of not less than ten branch and sub-branch secretaries. The greenstone memento looks .very well.,with a suitable-inscrip-tion on„a gold.,shield.-... ......