CUTTING DOWN EX'S.
(Per Press Association.)
Auckland, Laßt Night. Information has been received in Auckland that the New Zealand Government has given notice to the captain of H.M.S. Penguin, engaged on marine survey work-/u New Zealand waters, dispensing .witg the further services of thai vessel. It is assumed amohg;ship. ping people that the Government proposes to continue the uncompleted surveys itself in the hope of saving 'money. The Penguin, which now lies, in Auckland harbour, has been engaged for the past five years making a survey of the coast of New Zealand, and has been receiving from the New Zealand Government an annual pay. ment of £5000. At the time when th* Penguin took up the work it was found that none of our existing charts were accurate. The previous survey had been done by H.M.S. Challenger about forty years ago, and since that time considerable changes had evidently taken place in the bottoms of the, harbours. Notice to discontinue the services of the Penguin seems to have come suddenly and without previous warning, and it has been followed by an intimation from the Admiralty that in consequence of the Government's decision the Penguin must proceed to Sydney at the end of February, pay off there, and return tn England.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7970, 6 February 1905, Page 2
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