DIOMEDE FOR ISLANDS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 148, 24 June 1932, Page 3

DIOMEDE FOR ISLANDS.

LEAVES AUCKLAND ON TUESDAY. (By Telegraph. —Press Association.) WELLING TON, Thursday. The cruiser Diomedc, which is now in Auckland, will leave next Tuesday on an extended cruise of the Pacific Islands, according to a statement issued by the Minister of Defence t<. -day. The warship will return to Auckland on August

The Diomede will first go to Nukualofa where she will arrive on July 1, leaving there a week later for Rarotonga, where she is due on July 9. She will remain there for two days, then going to Papeete, whore ehe will be from July 13 to July IS. Her next call will he at Raiatea on July 1!). and next day she will leave for Bora Bora, which will be reached the same day.

On July 22 t , Diorr.ede will leave for Pago Pago, the American naval station, where she. will arrive on July 20. Three day later *he will leave for Apia, mi :l she will b" there until August 1. Her departure will be taken for Suva on August 4, an*, a stay will be made there until Angus 17. From Suva the Diomede will go to Lautoka, where she will remain from August 18 to August 22, then rot irnin£ to Auckland.