AMOKURA BOYS.
OPENING THE WAY TO-OFFICERS' RANK. (By Telegraph— Press Aesoalstion.l • •Christchurch, February 6. The Minister of Marine, tho Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, mentioned to a reporter this morning that the Aparima, with tho first detachment of Amokura boys, who were serving their time on her and learning to be officers, had just arrived in New Zealand from India. "1 hope during my stay in Doitedin," said Mr. Fisher,- "to make permanent arrangement with the Union Steam Ship Company to take tho six best boys from the Amokura every year and let them bo trained on the Aparima into efficient officers. If I can arrango this, it should prove an additional itHlucemeut to" the best class of hoy to join the Amokura, and thus havo tho door opened to the mercantile marino profession,"
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1978, 7 February 1914, Page 3
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134AMOKURA BOYS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1978, 7 February 1914, Page 3
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