NAVAL MOVEMENTS
NEW ZEALAND DIVISION ACTIVITY IN PROSPECT EXERCISES WITH AUSTRALIAN NAVY (Special to Daily Timesi AUCKLAND, Jan. 7. Exercises, several cruises, refitting, and combined battle practice with the squadron of the Royal Australian Navy, which is to visit New Zealand in April, make up a busy programme lying ahead of the ships of the New Zealand division of the Royal Navy in the next few months. In addition, the former flagship of the division, H.M.S. Dunedin, will leave for England on February 16, and in preparation for her long cruise she will go into dock or Monday for refitting. The new flagship, H.M.S. Achilles, will leave Auckland on January 23 for Wellington, officers and crew having to undergo rifle and other training at Trentham. The sloop Leith also has a cruise ahead of her, for on January 22 she is to leave on her first visit to southern ports since she was commissioned recently by Captain Tudway. Both H.M.S Leith, which will return to port today from exercises in the Hauraki Gulf, and the other natrol sloop, H.M.S. Wellington, will carry out three days' gunnery practice in the gulf before the Leith leaves for the south. The itinerary of the Leith will be as follows: —Coromandel, January 22 to 26; Russell, January 27 to February 1; Oamaru, February 5 to 9; Dunedin, February 9 to 16; Bluff, February 17 to 23; Westport, via Stewart Island and the West Coast Sounds, March 4 to 9; Queen Charlotte Sound, March 10 to 14; Lyttelton, March 15 to 20; Akaroa, March 20 to 24; Wellington, March 25. All the ships of the division will go to Wellington to meet the Australian Squadron when it arrives there on April 1, and it is likely that they will go out to meet the visitors, conducting battle manoeuvres on the way back. After independent cruises of the various units of the Australian squadron, the visitors and tha New Zealand vessels, including the mine-sweeper Wakakura, will meet at Auckland and further battle practice will probably be held.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23083, 8 January 1937, Page 8
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