SCHOOL FOR SEAMEN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 141, 2 July 1937, Page 10

SCHOOL FOR SEAMEN

— Own Correspondent )

Sail Gives Best Training

(By Telegraph

AUCKLAND, List Night. _ A stout believer in the efficacy of sail training for soamcn, Captain B>. Koehicr, marino supcrintendent at Sydney for the Hamburg Amerika . Line, anr.cun.ced this morning th'at his company had reverted to that system. His line, h6 said, had receutly • purehased the German-.built steel f'our-masted barque L'Avenir from the well-known 1'innish shipowner, Gustaf Erilcson. "We ean do it, you see. Our mercanrile marine is sruall hnd we have the lime to train our sailors in sail, but the Liilish merchant service is so large that it would be quito impossible. I certainly believe it is the best -\vay. ' ' Captain Koehler sa-w considerable service in sail, as it is eompulsory in Germany for intending oliicers, and he servcd before the mast in the Pommern, wliich is now well known in Australian waters for her participation in the annual grain "race" from South Australian. ports to Europe. Other lines followed the sanie expedient, he said, although there were only three of the famous "Flying P" line still in German ownership, they being the Padua, Pamir and Prmali. The old Grosslxerzogin Elizaboth was lying at Hamburg as a training vessel and the Kommodore John&on, formerly the Magdalene Vinnen, which visited Auckland some years ago, was seagoing. In addition four newr sailing ships were boing builL