THIRD NAVAL MINESWEEPER

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 23 September 1941, Page 5

THIRD NAVAL MINESWEEPER

MANUKA LA INI II ED AT AUCKLAND CEREMONY PERFORMED BY MRS PAIKEA Auckland, This Day. ' ■ 1 i the hands of skilled workmen have eon fashioned and shaped into a canoe i great a K ance on the ev< n anoes of the Maori migration in which ly inliopid forefathers faced the aterv wast • I •- the hope hat this ship will be as successful in er adventure as were those canoes • hich brought the Maoris to Aotcaroa.” lo said Mr Paikca a member of the Ixecutive Council representing the Nave race, immediately following Hie lunching of the minesweeper Manuka t Freeman's Bay this morning. The Manuka is the third minesweeper o he launched in Auckland within a rionth. The christening ceremony was ierfornied by Mrs Paikea who was rearing a rare kiwi mat which is worn nly on ceremonial occasions, nd Rimu, were launched on 28th Augist and 9th September respectively. As oon as supplies of Australian steel beome available, the first of three steel i i lies weepers to be built at Auckland .vi 11 be started. Nine steel minesweep•rs will bo built in New Zealand.—P.A.