NAVY LEAGUE WORK

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 20, 24 July 1945, Page 4

NAVY LEAGUE WORK

COMMODORE'S APPRECIATION

The golden jubilee of the formation of the Navy League in London was celebrated at the annual meeting of the Wellington branch of the League last night. An address was given by the newly-arrived Chief of Naval Staff in New Zealand, Commodore G. H. Faulkner, D.S.C., R.N. There was a large attendance of members and the U.S. Naval Attache, Captain Lloyd R. Gray and the Hon. W. Perry, M.L.C., were also present. The Mayor (Mr. Appleton) presided, assisted by the branch president (Sir Charles Norwood).

Commodore Faulkner told his listeners he had no new ideas on naval strategy to give them, and did not feel that the brief time he had so far spent in New Zealand would warrant a survey of naval conditions in the Dominion. He praised the work of the Navy League in fostering a knowledge of the Navy and of the necessity for its strength, particularly through the schools and the naval scouts. Another branch of the league's work, he said, had been most apparent to him in two years' service in the far northern waters between Greenland, Iceland, and Murmansk. There the knitted woollen comforts provided by Navy League branches all over the Empire had been of inestimable value in conditipns where 24 degrees of frost was thought not particularly cold, and men on watch wore layer after layer of woollen garments with a sheepskin windbreaker over them. In the early days of the war the supply of such comforts had been so short on occasions that men changing watch had to get the woollen extra garments of the men they were relieving. The" need for such comforts still existed, for the war against Japan would still take the ships of the Navy into extreme latitudes, and service even in New Zealand produced weather cold enough for anyone.

The following officers were elected* —President, Sir Charles Norwood* deputy president, Mr. Gordon J. Reid' honorary treasurer, Mr. A. J. Mackhonorary auditor, Mr. J. L. Arcus' executive, Sir Charles Norwood, Mr' G. J. Reid, Mrs. L. O. H. Tripp, Colonel R. St. J. Beere, D.5.0., Colonel C Weston, K.C., D.5.0., Captain A. v' Hale Monro, Lieut-Commander H. h! Carter, R.N. (retired), Messrs. a' Walker, L. O. H. Tripp, A. Dickens W. E. Fussell, R. C. Addison, A j' Mack, H. H. Dobie, Dr. H. Kronfeld" Dr. G. E. V. Anson. '

"When she slipped on the floor at her home at 82 Upland Road, Kelburn last night, Mrs. P. Peterson suffered a fractured thigh. The Free Ambulance received the call at 8.55, and the patient was transferred to the Public Hospital. ' .._