RENOWN FOR GISBORNE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3808, 8 March 1927, Page 18

RENOWN FOR GISBORNE.

DEPARTURE FROM AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, March 3. M ith as little trouble as the ferry boat leaves for Bayswater, the mighty battlecruiser Renown drew out from Princes Wharf this morning just as the city clocks chimed 8.30. The Band of the Royal Marines on the quarter-deck played a lively tune, while the music of Bonnie Scotland sounded from the deck below the bridge, where a petty officer and two sailors jilayed the bagpipes to the accompaniment of vigorous drumming by three seamen. A squad of sailors from H.M.S. Philomel assisted in the work of casting off the lines, and the departure <>“ the Renown was made with a minimum of fuss. The preparations for leavii _ were well advanced by 8 o’clock, when Captain Norman A. Sulivan and his officers said good-bye to the harbourmaster (Captain H. H. Sergeant). Princes Wharf was closed to the public till 8.25, so that the sailors on the wharf might not be impeded in their duties. - Two or three hundred people had congregated on the promenade between the wha:" and the ferry buildings, among them being a numbet of disconsolate “flappers,” who occasionally waved their handkerchiefs in the direction of the warship. From Auckland the Renown will proceed to Gisborne, where she will anchor in the roadstead for four hours. She will then go to Wellington, where their Royal Highnesses will embark for Picton.