AUSTRALIANS AND THE NAVY
Jttceived Xov. 11, 'J.I4 a.m. Mclboume, November 11. Admiral l'awkes, responding to the toast of the Xavy, said it struck him as rather peculiar that people were always talking about battleships, cruisers, torpedo boats and submarines, while they seemed to thing very little of the crews who were to man them in the future. It would lie better to pay more attention than Australia was doing in the training of men. In the last five years this country might have put 32 boys in training ships in tile Imperial Navy, hut had only sent twelve. Perhaps parents Ulid not care to part with their boys; perhaps the expense was too or j perhaps the Australian boys preferred the land to the sea.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 12 November 1907, Page 3
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126AUSTRALIANS AND THE NAVY Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 12 November 1907, Page 3
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