Royalist Home From East
(New Zealana Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 4.
In a drizzle of rain and a cold wind the New Zealand cruiser Royalist came home from the Far East today. She moored alongside at the naval base at Deponport, where the wharf was packed with two thousand wives, children, parents, relations, and friends, at 9.30 a.m. Her yardslong paying-off pennant swept over the heads of those waiting as she slowly inched into the wharf.
The Royal Marine Band played, sailors lining the decks peered anxiously into the crowd, waved in a self-conscious way and finally broke into broad smiles as they recognised those waiting and shouting greetings.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28630, 5 July 1958, Page 4
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