An indication of bow a rumour can spread, and bo convincing was given in. "Wanganui last week. A well-known business man wired a friend in Wellington as follows: "Arc the JI.M.S. Hood and JLM-S-Nelson in Wellington Harbour?” Ho. received : a prompt wind in reply ito the effect that they were not. ‘Why?’ was tacked oh to this, message;. The Wanganui man wrote his friend stating that he had beard it on "the best of authority” that when the Diomede;, sailed for Samoa recently H was with the intention of meeting the scouts of the British Fleet in the Pacific. As. a result of that meeting the Hood and the Nelson had turned up' suddenly in Wellington. He heard also that 'the first-battle line of the Fleet was steaming full speed from Suez,- ostensibly for New Zealand or Australia. Now he knows that the whole thing was a rumour.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11946, 17 May 1933, Page 7
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