WARSHIPS' MOVEMENTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21344, 19 November 1932, Page 12

WARSHIPS' MOVEMENTS

RETURN OF CRUISERS PROGRAMME FOR THE SLOOPS After her annual southern cruise, H.M.S. Dioniede, flagship of tho NewZealand Division of the Royal Navy, will return to Auckland next Thursday. She will go into dock for three or four days for cleaning, and Christmas leave will bo granted to her ratings in two watches of 14 days each. 11.M.5. Dunedin will return from her southern cruise on December's, and will also grant Christmas leavo in I wo watche.v Owing to the decision to havo the Diomede refitted in Auckland next year, instead of sending her back to England, tho future movements of tho cruisers are indefinite. The two sloops, Veronica and Laburnum. will complete their overhaul and refi 1 at Devonport to-<lay. On December 5 they will leave for the Hauraki Gulf, where they will carry out exercises and gunnery practice together. Tho Admiralty minesweeper Wakakum will accompany the sloops to tow tho target. The Laburnum will return to porf. oil December 16 and will grant Christmas leavo to her ratings in two watches before leaving for Tauranga on January 17 an tho first stago of her New Zealand summer cruise. The movements of tho Veronica bave not yet been finalised. There is a possibility that sho may sail on her southern cruise direct from the Hauraki Gulf after the completion of exercises. The Admiralty oil tanker Js'ucula will undergo a special survey at Db.vonport in January.