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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21226, 26 July 1934, Page 6

"The new destroyers Eclipse and Esk, called after British warships which served in the Maori wars, 1863-65, have recently been laid down, and the branch is uniting with the other branches in New Zealand to present to these new ships commemoration plates," states the annual report of the Wellington branch of the Navy League. "These plates will shortly be completed and put on view before being dispatched to England, where Sir James Grose, on behalf of the New Zealand branches, will present them." Reference is also made in the report to the compliment the Admiralty has paid New Zealand by naming one of the new sloops H.M.S. Wellington. This warship is to replace the sloop Laburnum, and is due in New Zealand waters early next year. In pursuance of the Government's decision to complete the highway from Kingston to Queenstown along the shores of Lake Wakatipu, instructions have now been issued for the engagement of 100 men on this project. Mr T. M. Ball (district engineer of the Public Works Department) will leave Dunedin for Queenstown to-day to arrange for the establishment of camps for the accommodation of that number of mer, and it is expected that a start will be made with the work at an early date. It is understood that the Public Works Department is dispensing with the services of from 200 to 300 men on the hydro-electric works at Waitaki, and that a large number of these men will be transLferred to the Lake Wa 7 .itipu road.