Combined Squadrons To Visit Auckland

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7249, 31 August 1933, Page 7

Combined Squadrons To Visit Auckland

NAVAL VESSELS OP AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Last Night. Greater naval strength than Auckland has seen for some time will enter Waitemata harbour at 7 o’clock to-mor-row morning, when tho combined Australian and New Zealand squadrons will arrive from Russell. Four cruisers will enter tho harbour, led by H.M.A.S. Canberra. The Fairey 11IF seaplane, accompanied by two flying-boats from the Australian cruisers, arrived at Hobsonvillo this afternoon. All threo machines will take the air early in the morning and provide an aerial escort for the cruisers when they enter the port.

Little Use for Defence of Australia

CRUISERS CANBERRA AND AUSTRALIA.

Received Wednesday, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, Aug. 30,

Replying to criticism of tho Australian Navy by a senior officer at Sydney, the Morning Post’s naval expert says that the cruisers Canberra and Australia cannot be described a 3 either out-of-date or miserable, but there is no blinking the fact that the present Australian Navy is of littlo uso for defence of the vast continent. The only effective defence would be minefields and ocean-going submarines, enabling a strong distant patrol to bo maintained. Both arms would require the support of surface ships.