NAVAL CAREER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 July 1940, Page 9

NAVAL CAREER

ADVANTAGES STRESSED BY MINISTER. RICH & VARIED CAREER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. “Any boy who joins the Navy is sure of _a rich and varied career,” said the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones, when discussing the New Zealand Naval Forces as a career in an address last night. The Minister said there still existed the need for long-term recruiting, for this continued in war as in peace time. A famous phrase from the articles of war of the Royal Navy was worth remembering. It read as follows: “It is on the Navy—under the good providence of God—that the wealth, safety and strength of the Kingdom chiefly depend.” “The Government aims to man ships of the New Zealand Squadron entirely with New Zealanders,” said Mr Jones. “After the war we shall depend on our men and boys who wish to make service in the Navy their life's career. These will be needed to replace reservists who took the place of Imperial men. “Our men and boys are trained in H.M.S. Philomel. At the end of a year’s training in H.M.S. Philomel, the boys are drafted to sea-g'oing ships where they take their place in the real life routine afloat. In the modern Navy every boy has a great chance for advancement. Every boy who shows promise is destined for promotion today. He can qualify himself by the successive steps of ordinary seaman or able seaman. Every boy, if he possesses the ability and instinct, has the chance of becoming a warant officer, and in outstanding cases a ward room officer.

"Any boy who joins the Navy is sure of a rich and varied life. He will have good food and good pay. he will have every care, he will find companions after his own heart, he will see the world as no tourist can ever hope to see it, and he ■will be serving his country.”