CRUISE OF DUNEDIN.
VISIT TO PACIFIC ISLANDS. DEPARTURE ON THURSDAY. ABSENCE UNTIL AUGUST. Having completed gunnery and torpedo practico H.M.S. Dunedin will return to Auckland from the Hauraki Gulf at ten o'clock this morning and she will berth at Sheerlegs Wharf early this afternoon. The flagship will replenish fuel and stores and leave next Thursday for Nukualofa, where Commodore G. Blake will make an official call upon the Queen of Tonga. The position of certain of the Kermadec Islands will be verified on the way to Tonga and after a week's stay at Nukualofa the flagship will go to Suva and Noumea (New Caledonia)/ the call at Noumea being in the nature of a return compliment to the French for the visit of the cruiser Tourville to New Zealand last year. The Dunedin will then go to Vila, in the New Hebrides, in order that the commodore may meet the High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, who will then be at Vila in H.M.S. Veronica. H.M.S. Dunedin will return to Auckland on August 2. She will remain here until August 7 to take in fuel and supplies before visiting Wellington and the South Island.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20595, 20 June 1930, Page 10
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194CRUISE OF DUNEDIN. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20595, 20 June 1930, Page 10
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