CRUISE BY SLOOPS
VISIT TO NORTHERN WATERS Dominion Special Service. Auckland, January 2. Two sloops of the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, H.M.S. Veronica and 11.M.5.' Laburnum, are to leave Auckland on a cruise to northern waters at 3.30 o’clock tomorrow afternoon. The sloops are leaving on their ordinary northern cruise. Commodore Blake said the 'Laburnum will go to Russell and the Veronica to Whangaroa, and both are due back at Auckland on January 14. They will then join H.M.S. Dunedin for a week’s gunnery practice in the Hauraki Gulf, returning to Auckland in time for the Anniversary Day regatta. Commodore Blake added that the sloops were making their northern cruise earlier than usual this year, owing to the fact that the warships would have to be at Wellington in March for the arrival of the new Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe. It -was authoritatively learned yesterday that there is no connection between the movements of the Laburnum and Veronica and the recent disturbance in Samoa.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 84, 3 January 1930, Page 11
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