TRAINING BOYS TO THE SEA

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 287, 28 November 1908, Page 2

TRAINING BOYS TO THE SEA

THE UNION COMPANY'S EXPERIMENT. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, List Night. The Union Company's training-ship Darti'ord will receive cadets on Monda,'. The boys will then take their first breakfast on board. Three bovs arrived from the South this morning to join the ship, three arrived from Auckland last night, others are expected tomorrow from the South, and their number will be added to by Wellington recruits. The deeks of the Darti'ord are at present in a pretty pickle, pitch, rope, scrap-iron, spun yarn, sinnet, paintpots, chips, ami timber |„.i„ g : ,ll over the place. To turn the Darti'ord into a full-rigged ship and to lengthen her poop by some eight feet and to generally bring the ship up to the Union Company's high standard of elliciency has been a somewhat expensive task. ' Notwithstanding the extensive fitting and rigging going on, tlie Dartford is being got ready . for sea. She is taking -n. ballast, also stores, and the chief steward is receiving tinned foods, hams, sugar, ten, hard bread, and other stores and stowing them in the lazarette. The Dartford's lirst pen 0 f call from Wellington, ' which she will leave in the middle of next umiit.li. will be the Kaipara, there, to load timber. The boys will be carried additional to tlie full crew, of course, ami they will be berthed aft under the fatherly eye of Captain Cooper and his officers.