SEA TRAINING
NEED FOR BETTER FACILITIES
.GENEROUS OFFER BY LOUD
FUKNESS
(Received July 29, 8.10 a.m.)
I LONDON, 28th July.. I Lord Furness, head of the Fur- [ ness, Withy, Company, shipbuilders, iat a meeting of the company at Hartlepool, proposed the amalgamation of his company's pension fund and that of the Old Hartlepool seamen, to which he had given £20,000. A wider scheme for training boys under expert tutors preliminary to entering the company's service as apprentices on the ' steamships, was needed, lie said, and ho urged the company to vote £IO,OOO for this object, and he would contribute £IO,OOO. Lord Furness considered it a serious reflection that so few national facilities were given to sea training.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10681, 30 July 1912, Page 5
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117SEA TRAINING Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10681, 30 July 1912, Page 5
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