NEW ZEALAND CRUISERS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19731, 2 September 1927, Page 10

NEW ZEALAND CRUISERS.

VISITS TO SOUTH ISLANDS, [ DETAILS OF THE ITINERARIES. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] WELLINGTON. Thursday. Cruises around the Zealand coast., including stays at a number of the ports, have been arranged for H.M.S. Dunedin and H.M.S. Diomede. Leaving Anckland on Monday, September 12, H.M.S. Dunedin will visit Milford Sound and Facile Harbour (Resolution Island) on Thursday, September 15, and will leave the following day for Patorson Inlet (Stewart Island), via Breaksea Sound, Acheron Passage and Dusky Sound. Paterson Inlet will be cleared on Sunday, September 18, and Tairoa Heads reached on the Monday. The vessel will remain at Dunedin until Friday, September 30. Timaru will be visited between Saturday, October 1, and Wednesday, October 5, and Akaroa between Wednesday, October 5, and Tuesday, October 11. The Dunedin will then proceed to Lyttelton, leaving there on Monday, October 17, on a return trip to Akaroa. On Wednesday, October 19, she will leave Akaroa for Wellington, arriving there next day and departing on Wednesday, November 23. H.M.S. Diou*de will leave Auckland on Friday, September 30, and arrive off Tairoa Heads on Monday, October 3. She will remain at Dunedin for seven days, proceeding thence to Lyttelton, where she is due on Tuesday, October 11. The Diomede wiil leave for Akaroa on Monday, October 17, and stay there until Wednesday, October 19, when she will depart for Wellington. The vessel is due at Wellington the following morning and will remain at Wellington until Wednesday, November 23.