EDUCATING SAILORS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 418, 30 December 1932, Page 2

EDUCATING SAILORS

STIFF GENERAL KNOWLEDGE PAPERS SET FOR PROMOTION "Sailors who are promoted from the lower deck to the higher ranks must not merely he competent s'eamen, but men of intelligence. That is of the greatest importance in ensuring real efficiency." These remarks were made by an Instructor-Comman'der with the Home Fleet when discussing the question set recently in the general knowledge paper in the "Highter Education Test" for men in the Royal Navy. The wide range of subjects with which the competitor is expected to show some acquaintance may he judged from the following extracts from the paper: — Why is an inverted egg cup put in a pie before cooking? Whenee does the earth derive its necessary oxygen? What is meant by Insesctivora, Carnivora, Rodentia and Ungulata? j What important s'ervices do earth- | Worms perfbfm? Why do we 'sometimes see a secondary rainbow? On a country walk yolij may meet With mistletoe, catin, traveller's joy, cuckoo spit, gossamer, and lichen. Desscribe what each is? What are the eolours and alternanatives names of crane's bill, king cup, cuckoo flower, ragged rohin, monk's hobd, and toad flax? Outline President Hoover's scsheme for a moratorium in the payment of wiar- debts aind reparations. How would oUr coiintry he affected? - What do you know of Mr. Lansbury, J. L. Baird, Sir William Morris, General Higgins, the Aga Khan, and Adolf Hitler? J * What events led up to the calling together of the Rourid Tahle Confer- ; ence? What were the causes of its j failure? | Write notes on Lord Irwin, 3. B. PriOstly, Sir James Jeans, Strube, Mr. Sculliri, General HOrtzog, Walt Disrieyj Chaliapin.-