NAVAL DRAFT
A naval draft of seventeen seaman ratings and four Royal Marines ■ arrived in Wellington today by the Tainui from Southampton, all from the three Home depot ports, Chatham, Devonport, and Portsmouth, and members of the Royal Navy. ■•-■••
.." The men are on loan 'to- the New Zealand-Navy for. three years.. Most of-them will .go to H.M.S. Philomel in Auckland, and some might go to H.M.S. Dunedin. At the end of the period they will return to the Imperial Navy.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19360402.2.96
Bibliographic details
Evening Post, Issue 79, 2 April 1936, Page 11
Word Count
80NAVAL DRAFT Evening Post, Issue 79, 2 April 1936, Page 11
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.