THE NAVY LEAGUE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1331, 8 January 1912, Page 3

THE NAVY LEAGUE.

A letter just received by Mr. C. W. Palmer from the chief lecturer of the Navy League contains some interesting details, of a lecture given on November 25 last by Lieut. H. T. C. Knox at York Cottage, Sandringliam, on "The Koval Navy and the Mercantile Marine,'' "to their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, K.G., Princess Stay, Prince George and Prin'eo John. The Prince of Wales worked tho lantern himself. Sir. Knox spent the week end (three days) at York Cottage as the guest of the prince. The lecture was divided into five parts— (a) Types of British warships. (b) Lit'o aboard a man-of-war. (c). The mercantile marine, (tl) ' German ports. (e) Foreign warships. A slide was shown of the Navy League wall map, which Sir. Knox explained .was hanging in most of the schools in Nov.- Zealand.

Amongst other slides shown were H.M.S..S. Hindustan, Orion <th,e first of tho super-Dreadnoughts), Drake (the new flagship for Australasia), the Olympic, Liisitania, the Navy I,cagiio brigs at Windsor and Heading, the Egeria, recently purchased by the Vancouver branch of the Navy League, and the Amokura, which Mr. Knox explained was training NewZealand boys for the sea. A slide was shown giving the statement of Sir Kdward Gibbes, of the New Zealand Education Department: "But for the extensive work of the Navy League in New Zealand the offer of a Dreadnought would not have been practicable." 'flic lecture concluded with slides of lI.M. the King as a lieutenant on board bis first command, surrounded by his officcsand men, ru'd pictures of the Ophir steaming out of Portsmouth in 1901, tho Medina leaving Portsmouth on November 11, and pictu.res- of the King and Queen. Jtr. Knox thanked their Koyal Highnesses for the honour they had conferred upon him, and, through him, upon every member of the Navy League throughout the Umpire. He referred to King George's message to (lie fleet on Hay 10, 1910, "That you will over continue to be, as in the past, the foremost defender of your country's honour, I know full well; and your' fortunes will always be followed by me with deep feelings of. prido and affectionate interest."