Portsmouth Navy Week:” Britain’s Best Bobsworth”: Portsmouth Navy Week, 1937, will be opened tomorrow from the bows of the historic Victory by the First Lord of the Admiralty (the Right Hon. A. Duff Cooper), and for seven whole days the Navy will be at home to the people they affectionately refer to as “the owners”. … … (description of past events) … … Don’t ask how they did it, for nobody seems to know, but ever since 1933 the numbers have been going up and up, and last year shook even the brightest of optimists with a rise of over 100,000. I think Paymaster Captain H. C. Pinsent, Navy Week’s indefatigable General Secretary, will forgive me if I let you in on a secret. He wants to see the figures pass the half-million mark before he finishes with it. Well, although he’s far from finished with it yet, last year’s figures were 433,239, and considerably less increase than last year would give him this ambition–one which might easily develop. … (description of the upcoming event) … …
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GRO0391 India: Harold Charles Frank Pinsent: 1884 – 1968