GUNNERY PRACTICE IN HAURAKI GULF

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6808, 11 January 1929, Page 7

GUNNERY PRACTICE IN HAURAKI GULF

NEW ZEALAND NAVY. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. Mon of the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy on holiday leave will return to their ships on Saturday, and on Tuesday H.M.S. Dunedin and H.M. S. Diomede will leave Auckland to carry out manoeuvres and gunnery practice in the Hauraki Gulf. The cruisers will return on January 25, and remain in port for Anniversary Day regatta on January 29. They will leave next day for Russell, where the division pulling regatia will probably be hold. The cruisers will return to Auckland on February 8 in time for combined training operations, to be carried out at Waiwera in conjunction with the Territorial Forces and thy New Zealand Air Force. Tho Laburnum will leave Auckland on Wednesday for Tauranga, remaining there for four days before proceeding to tho gulf for exercises and gunnery practice, joining H.M.S. Veronica, which will ieave Auckland next Thursday direct for the gulf. Both sloops will return to Auckland on January 25.^ The Dunedin is scheduled to leave Auckland on February 19 for a cruise in New Zealand waters. Six days are to be spent at Napier, eight at New Plymouth, three each at Grcymouth and Westport, ono each at Milford Sound end Dusky Sound, six at Stewart Island, seven at Dunedin, 12 at Lyttelton, 10 at Wellington, and two at Tokomaru Bay. The cruiser wiHreturn to Auckland on April 23. In May or Juno a cruise is to be undertaken by the Dunedin to Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Hobart. The movements of H.M.S. Diomeda arc not vet definitely known.