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No. I. considers it vitally necessary that the New South Branchas Throughout Australian Capital Citias Wales Navy League committee try to find add - Associatad Company: ARTHUR BALFOUR ft COMPANY LTD.. Shaffiald. Eng. A HEALTHY CRITICISM tional qualified and interested persons for appoin' tnent as officers and instructors. :'or sea cadets since the tour of Captain Spurgcon. Describing the visit, the aeronautical correspon- He recommends that all officers and instructor Activities such as these would encourage the de- dent of the London "Times" said: "If an atomic The Director of Naval Reserves, Captain A. S. be required to carry out a course in an R.A.N velopment of Corps spirits, the Director said. attack were made on the Fleet and the Ari; Royal Rosenthal, has made important recommendations establishment, and to Iv examined in squad drill, Summing up. the Director says: "It is considered was within the 'fall-out' area she would imme- following his inspection of the New South Wales boat work. Sea Cadet syllabus and knowledge < f ;hat more Service control should be applied in diately he 'sealed'. That means she would cease Division of the Australian Sea Cadet Corps. Sea Cadet regulations. raining matters—the Navy's main role in sea cadet to draw air from the atmosphere, the air inside the His official report by no means flatters the stan- The Director says: "If foi'nd wanting, appoin- idministration. ship being recirculated, and all the ship's comple- dard of training in sonic units. •ncnts should be terminated, even if such action "It is therefore recommended that the adminis- ment would immediately be withdrawn to safe But it docs pay tribute to the improvement which means the disbanding of a local unit—on th( trative staff in New South Wales be reconstituted. positions away from danger of contamination. grounds that no unit is better than a bad one." "It is proposed that a senior R.A.N.R. officer, he found in other units. ! However, it is inescapable—from the Director's He reports that he found no suggestion th. ! vith R A.N.R. officers as executives and training "Without normal ventilation the temperature in findings that while a lively enthusiasm does exist cadets were joining the R.A.N, or the R.A N.F fficers. be made Headquarters Staff." the engine and boiler rooms would soon become that enthusiasm needs more co-ordination and more However, he looked forward to some improvemci' The Director recommends that the new body unbearable All staff would immediately be with- supervision by qualified instructors in the future in the way of recruits. hould act in an R.A.N, establishment, preferably drawn and the ship steered hv remote control from H M A S. Rushcutter. two emergency control rooms on No. 6 deck. The Director does not make clear in his official The Director states that the Navy has helpc Each of these rooms can control tivo engines and report that the officers and instructors of the Sea provide camps for Sea Cadets. He fur'her recomirends that an officer's course two boiler rooms. Cadet Corps arc volunteers. Hi- criticism, there- But he believes that a firm policy should apply e carried out in Pen^ii/n or Riishriitter in accord- and accordingly, he recommends: ncc with the present sea cadet syllabus. fore. is ba«ed on a standard of efficiency which a "The Arl; Roval has actually been brought to naval officer would expect to find in H.M. estab- • That camps be limited to H.M.A. establish- ments within the State to which a unit bclong- anchor in Sandmvn Bay.