WARSHIPS' ACTIVITIES
EXERCISES IN THE GULP CRUISERS' GUNNERY TRIALS day and night firing - I For the next few weeks the cruisers of the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy will be carrying out gunnery exercises in the Hauraki Gulf. H.M.S. Dimetlin is in the gulf at present, and will return on Thursday. On September 12, she will leave port in company with H.M.S. Diomede, flagship of the squadron, and the two cruisers will carry out a complete programme of combined gunnery exercises with the co-operation of one of the sloops and aircraft from the Hobsonville air base. , Day and night firing will be carried out by the cruisers when they are in the gulf together. They will also carry out a concentration shoot, when the target will be towed by one of the sloops, and there will -be the usual anti-aircraft guri practice, with a target towed bv an aeroplane. The Dunedin carried out anti-aircraft gun practice in the gulf yesterday morning, when an aerial taiget was towed by the'Fairey 111 F seaplane from Hobsonville.
The two sloops, H.M.S. Veronica and H.M.S. Laburnum,- are due back from
their annual Island cruises this month. The Veronica will arrive at Auckland on Monday aftor a cruise of over two months, during which she has visited Noumea, Ocean Island and the Fiji group, as well as other islands in the Pacific. The Laburnum is due back at, Auckland on September 19. Among other naval activities proceeding at Auckland at present is the training of membeis of the-Auckland division of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve on board the Admiralty mine-sweeper .Wakakura. Each section is bring given a week's training cruise in the Hauraki Gulf. The training ship H.M.S. Philomel has beeu granting leave'during the past fortnight, but training will be resumed next week. The cruisers Diomede and Dunedin will leave Auckland on October 3 on their cruises to Southern ports. They will return together on December 9, and will then remain in port until after thei New Year, while Christmas leave is granted. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21278, 3 September 1932, Page 9
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