AUDTRALIAN SQUADRON

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 70, 23 March 1935, Page 9

AUDTRALIAN SQUADRON

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3ta ovsrcast weather the Australian squadron, fsoffipi>isin& the c?*uiaei?s Caribevra (flagship) and . B(iSoej£ F and the dostroyora Stuart, Vendetta and \ ■ srx^ved her* this morning from the Hauraki (3-Xiif on an informal visit. The cruisers were berthed «t Aotea Quay ?;i'ih the Stuart and Vendetta . aloagaide, the Voyager going to the Queen's Wharf* v Agfcsr. fu«l3.ij[ig, the Stuart and Vendetta trsns■*ferred to the Clyde Quay Wha*f, where H.M.S.J>iomede , is berthed:»

The dotaaaiider of fee aguadron, Rear-Adoiral , f.F.^FdM, G. 8,, came ashore at 9-30 a.m. to pay j . hies official calls, a, salute of 13 guns "being fired : 1 froa Point Jerniagbam a<» h<s landed. He called on ■ his Jseelleaoy the Administrator (Sir Michael Myers) ■ at y.UQ x '&B& on tbe Px*i#e Minister (the Kt.Hon.O.W. i^oiftjem) at 10. At 10.25 the General officer i Coosrea&tog &hs Ke* Zealand Poises (Major-General 4 Bip William Sinalair-Barsaas) called on the Admiral ? on "board the flagship. j $hs following call© were also made: the Second jlfortn&i U&snfbei* of the JTev Zealand Naval Station (Oapt. > called at 10.30, the chairman of the Hasfcott* Board (ittvT,.S.Ea»er) e.t io,ko. and the pDeputy Mayor tiir.ff.H. Bennett) at 10.50* &s sxsei- [ laney the Administrator returned the Admiral 1 ej call at ',11*10* Tm Adairal then returned the calls, ptoin<t ; ■fca^Derasice fieaaajxartars at. 11.35, the Tom Haii at : 11*50* the I&iSboujf Boa^d offices at noon, and the $avy Offlo^ at ,12.3.0 p»wi. ?he Pi»iae Minister will t *atttWtt the Aa»lral*a call at 10 a»m* on Monday* : I flril© the squadron is in port the officers and I »ftjs will fc<& entertained by the Kavy league and other : Xo&%\ orgauisationß-K A Kavy League dance will o* fctftd toai^het^ a golf match will take place at Heys~' 'tettaga tomo^csr, and on lhjesday night the officers ' • lof the &sgtaai»o£ r/ill hold a dance on the aan"berra» , I , f!h« s^u&dron left Auckland, on Wednesday morning :tax the JSfturaki Gulf ?;)iere -e^ten&ive navsl exercifeeei , including an anti-aircraft shoot, sub-calibre, shooting '>tojr tJj*, and a combined torpedo practice, iro*s fiarrieS otjjt. Fine vsathep was encountwred. on jth* wyag« down the oosst. ' '♦ ■ ; H,M*s, Sufiaax, whio3x "brought the Pufce of 'al«uc«»t»r frca Britain to Australia, i$ visiting Uow Stealand. for the firsfi ti»e. -She is the eacehange >cnai^i* 'trlfcfe K»tt»A»a.'Aaatralla, which is-takiiig the :£ske »«»■&:io SngXmnd, 6M shs ■arili oe leaving' the jMetrali&ia station eafly next year* :<^' SShe' Wiidetta leaves here on Monday fox* Heir '■p&jrtKmt&p the Stuart -and Voyager next far 'SyOft^jr direst * tji* Canberra n^xt Friday for Lyttelton, > |igna the Steseea on Harch 31 for Dane&in- ilie Vendetta' a?iix^ leave ®gw Plymouth next 'Thursday for Sydney and Ettu» eijuiaeyes will proceed to Hooart after their calls ■at South I^lsnd po^ts- ' I , ' In addition to the Bea?-Admiral,-.Flajß--Caytat» S,f,O.'iall:er > acting as Chief staff Officer, is on 9t>oa,**i the Oas&wMi, Captain s..S«Bonh,am Garter,* P.S.O«» pte In ccmsmnd 6f the Buseax, Captain A.^.Liiley jt>o«wattds the flotilla-li?ader Stwarft, Lieatenwat,Poajftftftder Aiß.ROßenth&l the V«n4Btta r '^ lieutenant<sow»s«iad«p o,9.st«wsart the Voyatge-i?* I ' Kear-Actffiiral wilcroliaai '.rennyson Sandie Ford, * ;C*B. * «ae "bom on January IST, 3,860* He comHenced [his naval career in 1895 and during the was*'.served with. fi.M^, Swift sure, lining promoted cananaiider in iKepember I9lh« He oecame captain in 1920, and ! jheld. coDuaand of five ships until he uras promoted ,^eas*-admiral in November 1932.