FLEET'S - DEPAETURE
SATURDAY/ AFTERNOON.
REPULSE TO SAIL AT 3.30.
LEADING FOUR , CRUISERS.
DELHI AND HOOD FOLLOW.
The departure of the Special . Service Squadron from Auckland will be made on Saturday afternoon.
The arrangements have not yet been officially . completed, but it is understood that the Repulse and the cruisers Danae, Dragon, Dauntless #nd Adelaide will leave their moorings in the stream aft 3.30 p.m. They will be followed by tho Delhi and shortly afterwards by the Hood.
The Dunedin will remain at Auckland, and the departure of the Chatham to the East Indies station will not take place till next week.
This programme contains promise of a spectacle as impressive as the arrival of the squadron. As the whofe city will be on holiday, there will be an even more favourable opportunity for a popular demonstration.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18708, 14 May 1924, Page 8
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136FLEET'S – DEPAETURE New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18708, 14 May 1924, Page 8
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