HONEY FOR ROYAL NAVY

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 19, 17 October 1942, Page 5

HONEY FOR ROYAL NAVY

Tribute To School’s Effort ■'Your girls and old girls should know (hat they are doing invaluable work which will never be forgotten by the Ivoyal Navy,” states Sir Sydney It. T'reuiantle, chairman of the Navy 'League Seafarers Comforts Supply. London, writing' to thank Woodford House School, Havelock North, for three consignments of honey. One lot of PJ3 cases had, turned up complete, also another of 28 cases, but the third one of .Il> cases was, he regretted to sav, at the bottom of the sea. A further Iqt of 16 cases they were still expecting to receive. . . The name of Woodford House is beginning to be known throughout the whole "flotilla,” which is the general term we use for small ships of the Royal .Navy, the writer said. "We sent quite a mrge quantity recently to the naval hospitals in North Russia, where I am sure it will be much appreciated.” . The practice, as soon as a consignment of honey arrives, is to get.a list I' o ™ the Admiralty, of suitable ships to which to send the honey, the list being dependent a good deal on what transport is available. It practically nil goes to small ships, nothing larger than a destroyer. The submarines, which are all worked from depot ships ‘•round the coast get a regular monthly consignment, which, it is pointed out, the crews richly deserve.