THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is Incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY. “Public Service.” MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1944. WORK OF MERCHANT NAVY
There is little that can be added to the tributes paid to the Merchant Navy by various speakers at the annual meeting of the British Sailors’ Society in Wellington. The story of their devotion to arduous service throughout the war in conveying vital supplies in oceangoing vessels steaming over perilous waters has often been told. But in testimony to the sincerity of these tributes, in country as elsewhere, there should be practical recognition. Lord Chatfield, a former Sea Lord of the Admiralty, said as much in effect, and with eloquent emphasis, in a speech delivered in the House of Lords some time ago. On a similar line of thought the Commodore of the Royal New Zealand Navy, Sir Atwell Lake, urged the claims of the men of the Merchant Navy and their wives and families in postwar rehabilitation schemes. There should be adequate recognition of invaluable services rendered, and in no such niggardly spirit as was evinced when the railway concessions normally granted to servicemen travelling on leave was withdrawn from men of the Merchant Navy when on leave in this country. The resolution recorded by the Wellington meeting in this connection mentions that the concession was “unaccountably” withdrawn. The sense of injustice engendered by this apparent discrimination as between one service and others ought to be removed. It should be a sample matter, if necessary, and quite practicable, to distinguish between men who have served in the dangerous waters of deepsea routes, thus earning the tributes and gratitude of the community, and those whose duties confine them to the comparative safety of port-to-port coastal traffic. '
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32415, 3 April 1944, Page 4
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290THE Hauraki Plains Gazette. With which is Incorporated THE OHINEMURI GAZETTE. MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY. “Public Service.” MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1944. WORK OF MERCHANT NAVY Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32415, 3 April 1944, Page 4
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