NEW WARSHIPS
NEW ZEALAND DIVISION
FASTER, STRONGER, MORE MODERN
(Received January 18, 2.45 p.m.)
LONDON, January 17,
"The Times" naval writer, says that the arrangement-made in 1924 to replace H.M.S. Dunedin and Diomede by'cruisers of the Leander class will begin to becdme effective when H.M.S. Achilles is shortly commissioned as flagship in succession to H.M.S. Dunedin.
A list of officers required for volunteer service on loan to New Zealand ia published in Fleet Orders today. The writer points out that New.Zealand is obtaining faster, stronger, and more modern ship's. , H.M.S. Achilles will carry the first ship-borne aircraft so far attached to the New .Zealand Division.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 15, 18 January 1936, Page 10
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