MOVEMENTS OF CRUISERS
TWO RETURN TO AUCKLAND. By Telegraph —Press Association.) AUCKLAND, April 29. After prolonged cruises to southern ports two cruisers of the New Zealand division of the Royal Navy returned to Auckland on Saturday. During the next six or seven weeks both cruisers and one Imperial sloop now on the station will undergo preparations ioi the annual island cruises which will commence in June. The Dunedin will leave Auckland on June 15. The Diomede’s cruise will he among the islands of the western Pacific. She will leave Auckland on June 18. Several outlying islands .will be visited by the Laburnum, which will leave Auckland on June 4 for Suva. The future movements of the new oil burning sloop Leith, which is to join the Laburnum on the New Zealand station in place of the Veronica, are not yet definite. The vessel is due here from England in October and. it is not known whether .she will visit any of the islands en route.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 30 April 1934, Page 4
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