NAVY LEAGUE EXCURSION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10157, 29 November 1910, Page 5

NAVY LEAGUE EXCURSION.

THE UECENT "BUNGLE.' WHO .IS To BLAME. "Disgusted Parent" writes as follows to the Wairarapa Age:—"Sir, —1 see by the paper that loth Mr Jackson and Mr R. B. Daniel, secretary of the Navy League, try to put the blams for last week's bungle on to the innocent man in Wellington. Now, 1 have no doubt that Mr Palmer, the Navy League officer in Wellington, is to blame in a measure for having only informed the local secretary of the altered arrangements on the night before the excursion. He may also be to blame for making the place of meeting the Missions to Seamen's flail. But, in my opinion, if Messrs Jackson and Daniel had worked harmoniously together there would have been no trouble. If they thought the Missions to Seamen's Hall was too tar from the station, they could have informed Mr Palmer, and the arrangements might have been altered. But neither of them raised any protest. The youngsters knew, right enough, that the address was to be given at the Missions to Seamen's Hall. They were told this through the paper, and were told it, after a fashion, in the train. Seeing that Mr Jackson and his staff were in charge of the children in the train, it was their duty to have told the children 1 what were the arrangements for the day. If they did not know them themselves, they should have got them from the Secretary, who was on the train. It sepms to me that both Mr Daniel and Mr Jackson wanted to "run the show," and that one would not consult the other, with the result tuat everything went wrong. Mr Jackson, seeing the difficulties, as he must have seen, should have offered to assist in every way possible to get the programme through. Instead, of that r he and his staff the Navy League to scramble through as best it could. And then Mr Daniel, of the Navy League, when he saw how things were going, should have sought the assistance of Mr Jackson. Ido not know whether one is more tc blame than the other. In my humble opinion they are both to blame. In future if a Navy League excursion is to be held, let it be a Wavy League excursion, and not a school excursion. It is funny that the masters of outside schools should have looked their children in the city, whilst the staff of. the Masterton school should have been satisfied to leave their charges with a Brass Batid."