UNION COMPAN'S TRAINING SHIP.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2361, 30 November 1908, Page 4

UNION COMPAN'S TRAINING SHIP.

THE DARTFORD.

[Press Association.] AVELLINGTON, Nov. 28.

The Union Steamsip Co.’s training ship Hartford will receive cadets on Monday. The boys will then take their first breakfast on board. Three boys arrived from the South yesterday morning to join the ship; three arrived from Auckland last night, others are expected ''to-morrow from the South, and their number will 5e added to by AVellington recruits. Tho decks of the Hartford are at present in a pretty pickle, pitch, rope, scrap iron, spun yarn, sennet, paint pots, chips, and timber being nil -over the place. _ To turn the Hartford into a full-rigged ship and to lengthen her poop by some Sit', and to generally bring tho ship tip to the Union Company’s high standard of efficiency, has been a. somewhat expensive task. _ Notwithstanding the extensive fittings and -rigging going on, the Hartford is being got -ready for sea. She is taking in ballast, also stores, -and the chief steward is receiving tinned foods, hams, sugar, tea, hard bread, and other stores, and stowing them in the' r ' lazaretto, the jealously-guarded province of all chief stewards. The boys will bo carried additional to the full crew, of course, and they •will bo berthed aft, under tho fatherly view of Captain Cooper -and his officers. From the -appearance of things the boys would seem to be about to enter -upon an exceedingly pleasant four years of service, during' which they w-ill receive a ; thorough grounding in the whole art and science of seamanship. AVELLINGTON, Nov. .29. The remainder of the boys for the Union Co.’s training ship 'Haitford ■will join her to-morrow. She wnl _go to Kaipara- on Thursday to loadf timber for ah Australian port.