H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 23 June 1923, Page 7

H.M.S. NEW ZEALAND.

:SALS TO BRITISH FIRM

"3$Y GABLE—PEESS A^JCI A TJON- -COPYRIGHT LONDON, June 21* Tke : naval report, presented in the ' House of Commons stated that the -warship New Zealand, costing the New Zealand Government £l,70O;O00, was sold to a British firm- for breaking up for £21,000. The New Zealand was not -auctioned, but after the Washington '-Conferen.e the decision was to scrap, iier and many ether shins immediately, ; "which glutted the market and depreciated prices. * :