NAVAL MANŒUVRES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21980, 15 June 1933, Page 9

NAVAL MANŒUVRES

AUSTRALIAN SHIPS EXPECTED OUTLINE OE ARRANGEMENTS. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, June 14. Further provisional arrangements have been made {on the naval exercises to be carried out in New Zealand waters by two cruisers from the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy and ships from the Royal Australian Navy, It is hoped that the Australian cruisers Canberra and Australia, probably accompanied by the destroyer Tattoo, will arrive off North Cape towards the end of August. They are expected to remain in New Zealand waters until the end of September. The Dunedin, the flagship of Commodore Burges-Watson, will leave Auckland to-morrow morning on her annual Island cruise, and will return on August 15. By this time the Diomede, which is undergoing refit at the Devonport naval base, will probably be recommissioned, and the two cruisers will meet the Australian ships off North Cape. A mock battle is to he held, the Australians taking the part of an attacking fleet, while the Dunedin and Diomede, possibly with Air Force co-operation, will have the task of defending the coast. All the ships will then probably put into Russell, and a regatta and other competitions between the ships will be held in the Bay of Islands. The warships are then expected to proceed to Auckland, and on the way will probably carry out gunnery practices in Hauraki Gulf. During the first week in September further gunnery practices are to be held in the Hauraki Gulf, and the visiting warships will leave at the end cl September on their return to Australia. The two sloops Veronica and Laburnum will leave on their Island cruises on Friday. Both arc making extended cruises this year and consequently will be unable to take part in the combined exercises. The appointment of several officers to the New Zealand division of the Navy have been announced. Most of the new officers will join the Diomede when she rcconimissions after her rent at Devonport in August. Captain Cosmo Graham will take over the command of the Diomode, replacing Captain V. A. 0. Crutch* ley, V.C.. who will then return to England. Other officers who will join the Diomede in August are Commander J. W. Farquhar, Lieutenant P. Bethell. who will relieve Lieutenant R. J. H. Ryan. Lieutenant M. A. C. H. Hardcast e, who will replace Lieutenant-commander R. Airey, Lieutenant C. R. Havergal, who will relieve Lieutenant C. W. Jones, Sub* lieutenant R. E. Washbourn. Sub-lieuten-ant H. R. A. Kidston, and Lieutenant M. Archdall, Royal Marines. The term of Commander R. Ilanisbotham, of the Laburnum, will expire in October, and he will be relieved by Commander A. H. Maxwell-Hyslop. Sm-geon-lien tenant C. J, Mullen has also been appointed to the Laburnum to relieve Surgeon-lieutenant A. J. Burden.