Gift to Auckland

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 66, 19 March 1936, Page 9

Gift to Auckland

MEMENTO OF TEE CALLIOPE LONDON, Fob. 15. At the request of tho Mayor of Auckland, a steering-wheel of HALS. Calliope is to bo presented to the Auckland War Memorial Museum, to commemorate tho wonderful seamanship which saved the warship in a violent hurricane at Samoa in ISS9. Apparently the Mayor of Auckland was under tho impression that H.M.S. Calliope was to bo broken up, and he communicated with the Admiral Commanding Reserves, London, in order to secure some memento of the ship. H.M.S. Calliope, which is lying at Elswick,, nead Newcastle, is not to be broken up, and it is thought that she has been confused with a warship of the same name built during the war. “We were informed by the Admiral Commanding Reserves, Admiral George Clietwood, of the Mayor of Auckland’s request,” said Liout.-Commander Ricnards, instructional commander, H.M.S. Calliope, to a representative of the Newcastle Chronicle, “and decided that the steering-wheel which had probably been used during the great hurricane should bo renovated for presentation to the War Memorial Museum. This wheel is being overhauled at Shields and will be sent out to New Zealand on one of his Majesty’s ships this year—possibly H.M.S. Leander. No official handingover ceremony has as yet been prepared.”