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NAVY LEAGUE SEA CADETS S4J1D SOAP BAKING POWDER This Pure Product of the Grape Is Appreciated | READY Ibto READY | DOES ITS WORK by Thrifty Housewives THE e) M. DEMPSTER^ LTD RED, WHITE and BLUE WHISKY (Eommanfoealth Hank of ^ugtralia ESTABLISHED 1912. GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS of every description transacted at all branches in the principal cities and towns of Australia. London (2) and New Guinea. SAVINGS BANK INTEREST 3,'2 per cent, on deposrtts up to £1.000. 3 per cent, on any additional balance up to £300 making a total of £1.300 on which interest is ailowed SAVINGS BANK AQKNCIKS ARK ALSO ESTABLISHKI> AT THK FOLLOWING :- GARDKN ISLAND (SYDNKYI NAVAL DKPOT. WILLIAMSTOWN <VICTORIA» H.M.A.S. TlNOIRA H.M.A.S. BRISBANE SYDNEY .. PLATYPUS The N&vy League Journal MELROUKNK .. GKRANIUM TORPKDO BOAT AOKNLY JAriES KELL VOL. V. No. 9. SVDNKY, JANUARY, 192ft. PRICK 3D. Governor ><ivcrp!ated Sandwich or Cake Tray 63 -. Others 42/-. 50/- THE GRAND OLD FLAG. IMPORTED Navy League's Silent Sentry. PERMANENT DIRECT FROM THE Australia's Symbol of Liberty. TRUSTEE COMPANY OF N.S.W. LTD. MANUFAC- Trustees — fcxecutors — Attorneys—Agents TURERS. Estates Under Oontrol Exceed £8,000,000. Many an Australian soldier in the trenches wept over a simple gum- leaf Christmas card during the war, just as a sprig o' heather, or a little This Company s advantages are unique. Siiverplatcd Cake or Fruit Stand shamrock, will bring a flood of tender memories trooping into the heart Its Special Act of Parliament stipulates 45 . Larger »ize. 55/• of the expatriated Scot or Milesian, and add an extra beat to his pulse. that the whole Capital and Assets- over one million pounds—shall be liable New Catalogue Post Frer. for the protection of clients' interests. ND it is so with flags—the ensign, colours, or gleams like a meteor. His pulses leap with a love Further a special feature of the Com- A standard oT a nation. that he never knew he held close in his heart for pany's service is the deferment of Corpus his native land and its proud banner. Commission charges until the estate J. M. DEMPSTER LTP. When an adventurous youth embarks upon a becomes distributable. Ayrshire House, sea-going career, and travels into every port in the In his homeland he has seen it fling its brave EXPLANATORY BOOKLET POST FREE. Seven Seas, there is nothing on earth will bring a colours to the breeze that he forgot to admire it. 311 GEORGE ST. SYDNEY lump into his throat, and a glad tear to his eye, E V. T. WHITTLE J. W. BARNES (NEARLY OPPOSITE HUHTen STREET) But shoaled up in some foreign port, with ship, ASSISTANT MANAGER MANAGER quicker than a glimpse of the proud banner of his of every nation displaying their ensigns, the one J. M. Dempster Manatfintf Director. nation. solitary Sag of his native land calls to him with a 25 OTONNELL MEET, SYDNEY. Amidst the flags of every nation his own ever thousand clarion tongues to salute it. He feels at looks the finest and bravest. In a foreign port it once the assurance that in it he has ten thousand THE NAVY LEAGUE JOURNAL. 3 2FI THE NAVY LEAGUE JOURNAL. friends and comrades. His loneliness slips from All the flags of all the nations, like a bunch him like a garment. He wants to lift his hat and of flowers, 'Mid the flags of every nation not a prouder cheer it. Jtemmtik ^Mutual ^mxxxma (ttmnpany flag than ours, If fate decrees that any of the boys of the Navy Ae she dips a royal answer from a hundred LIMITED. fortress towers- League Sea Cadets, in the fulness of time, ventures Each a stronger than the last. AN AUSTRALIAN INSURANCE COMPANY. abroad under the meteor flag of the Empire - the Every Navy League Sea Cadet should reverence glorious old Union Jack—they will sail into many that emblem of our nation's freedom. It is more j>iv«ctov«: ports, and everywhere they go they will see the than a piece of " colored bunting." A. K. JAQUK3, CHAIRMAN standard of their proud nation flaunting its shining J M C. C. QAI.IE - - A TKINSON. front on the Seven Seas. The Union Jack symbolises the entity—the real THKO. J MAKK8. '*• J- "AV,KS being, the essence — of the Anglo-Saxon con- Like the scent of their beloved wattle, or the federation of free peoples called the British leaf from " a thunderin' ol' blue gum," the sight of FIRE MARINE, ACCIDENT AND SICKNESS, WORKMEN'S Empire, and that is due to a sense of kinship that bunch of red, white and blue, and the stars, which is independent of all externals. 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