WARSHIP PROGRAMME
CRICKET AND COMMANDER'S ADDRESS SUCCESSFUL SHOOTING MATCH Routine cleaning, deck washing, and painting were the crew’s occupations aboard the new Imperial sloop H.M.S. Wellington to-day, when the decks were a hive of industry and activity. Cricket was the programme lor the afternoon, when a match between the ship’s team and a Carisbrook Club eleven was played, and to-night a billiards match is to be played against returned soldiers. Commander J. B. E. Hall will address a meeting of former war servicemen at the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Club to-night, and to-morrow evening will make himself known to local naval ratings at the R.N.V.R. headquarters, where last night a shooting match was fired between teams from the ship and the reserve, the visitors winning by a handsome margin—29s (application) and 93 (snap practice), as against 272 and 87.
Another cricket match will be played to-morrow afternoon against an Otago Boys’ High School team, while for Thursday it is hoped to arrange a soccer match. That evening at 7 o’clock there will be a whale-boat race over a mile course from Vauxhall to the shipping basin, in which the issue will be contested by two crews from the ship and two from the R.N.V.R. Friday morning at 8.30 is the time fixed for H.M.S. Wellington’s departure for Oamaru and the continuation of her maiden South Island cruise.
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Evening Star, Issue 22272, 25 February 1936, Page 8
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