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. COMPENSATION, BOILER EXPLOSION, MOTOR CAR, will stir their pulses to action, and send their PUBLIC RISK AND PLATE GLASS INSURANCE. thoughts galloping back to the Homeland and It resembles the passion that binds the members of one family together as with links of steel. Losses by Lightning, Bush Fires and Be Patriotic—Insure Australian Property their "ain folk." Gas Explosion Paid. in an Australian Insurance Company. For it represents Home, Love, Liberty, Law and The Union Jack is our family symbol. Religion. The Union Jack represents a haven of 'There's a flag the free winds follow— refuge in every port of this grey old earth. It is a 'Tie the banner England bought her symbol of Safety and Freedom 1 With the maetery of the main : HEAD OFFICE: 16 MARTIN PLACE, SYDNEY. Every ship upon its azure has a lion to support KELSO KING. MANAGER. It is of this war-scarred bit o' bunting that Will her, Ogilvie sings so bravely :— It is barred with every sunbeam, twixt the wind cloud and the water, Thro' the gates our hands flung open, It is starred with faith and freedom, and it Sail the fleets of all the Powers, bears on every quarter r Dipping flags as they go past; Broken galley bench and chain. Interstate Steamship Sailings PLEASE A5K A FRIEND TO JOIN THE NAVY LEAQUE. Modem Pastenger Steamers: Regular Passenger and Freight Services IN SOUTH AFRICA. KATOOMBA CANBERRA to all Australian Ports. LEVUKA ZEALANDIA BUILT FOR SPEED AND COMFORT. KAROOLA J. R. B. WATT M. V. S. WYREEMA DISPENSING CHEMIST BOMBALA FOR FULL PARTICULARS APPLY TO DIMBOOLA 457 Miller Street, Admlaidm Sl.am.hip Co. Ltd. • 22 Bridgm Sir,.I. Sydnmy • •520 COOMA • iotas A. U. S. N. Co. - - -7 Bridge Sit—I. Sydney Suspension Bridge. Aa.tralian St.am.hip Ltd. • 360 Cmorgm Str..t, Sydnmy - 6221 A GROUP OF NATAL'S NAVY LEAGUE .HK McEackarn Linm • 61 Fill Sift, Sydnmy - • Tltt Mcnmr SEA CADETS. TEL-INORTH ooe. II Hmddmrt,Haddarl. nu—r.Parkmr. ULtd.L -• -10 —'"«•Bridf Stmt.—' Sydnmy - «(«< V. J) jtfJjjljm Sl.am.hip Co. Ltd. • Cr. Clar.nct and Barrack Strmml. S2I3 (Photo fay courtesy of Mr*. A. Malluar 5 2FI THE NAVY LEAGUE JOURNAL. THE NAVY LEAGUE JOURNAL. Governor Philip Gidley King, R.N. The Aberdeen Line Gentleman, Able Administrator—Our Third Governor. Regular Service between Australia and First Attempt to Cross Blue Mountains. Southampton, Hull, and London via The third governor ol New South Wales was Philip Gidley King, R.N. South Africa. Finest Steamers When King took charge the settlement had been going twelve years, and he had wa'ched it grow from an infant in the early tile of nationhood, to a lusty child. on the Route. Under him progress was made, but there were no outstanding features in his •• EURIPIDES" - • " six years reign. But, this does not mean that matters public were little better than stagnant. •* THEMISTOCLES" • - " "DEMOSTHENES" " Convicts formed the major portion of the population, many of them desperate • "SOPHOCLES" - - 2,500 " criminals, but the tact of King, and his kindly nature as proven by the fact that •"DIOGENES" - " 1J>:,0U " peace and prosperity stayed with the opening of the new century, while brave men • New Suanwr. made attempts to see behind the great blue barrier of the Great Dividing Range. Unsurpassed Accommodation for 1800- I9SS—if only King could see the prosperity ol the land he helped to build 1 125 years! King's name, like Phillip's and Hunter's, will live forever! First and Third Class Passengers. Inclusive Tours to South Africa at reduced rates. ING, it might be said, was born at sea, or as learning all there was to be learnt, gradually reach- close to the sea as one could possibly get ing efficiency in a Service in which he was to be so t K without being on ship. And he came bright a star. NEW ABERDEEN LINER " DIOGENES," 12,500 TONS. from a place where sailors grow like seaweed, and Then at that time rumours of war echoed through are as numerous as the rocks along the shores— ^the forests of the great country that to-d ay is known SSJss^stfsa* DALGETY & COMPABY, LIMITED Cornwall, that wild, rugged, beautiful stretch of as the United States of America. Someone had TO ————''—"" country that faces way out across the great heaving blundered in England, the settlers threw down the bosom of the wide Atlantic. gauntlet, and challenged the Mother Country for His birthplace was Launceston, the day April their independence. 23, and the year 1758. It is obvious that he came Fought America. from a well-to-do family, and in keeping with the White Star Line That was 1775. King, just returned from his custom followed by those who could afford it in eastern voyage, still in his teens, went with the CABIN Passengers Only. those days, the groundwork of his early education " Liverpool" to Virginia to fight the cause of his was laid by a Mr.