VISITING WARSHIPS.
ITINERARY OUTLINED. WELLINGTON, March 8. A radio message has been received from the French sloop Cassiopee stating that she will arrive here at 3 o’clock to-mor-row afternoon from Noumea. The Cassiopee is under the command of Commander I’. Auverney, and is likely to be on the New Zealand coast some little time visiting various ports. There are approximately 100 officers and men on board the sloop, which is the French representative on the Pacific station. She will be here until Wednesday next, when she will leave for Milford Sound. After that she will call at other West Coast sounds, Dunedin, Timaru, Lyttelton, and Auckland. H.M.S. Laburnum and Veronica an due at Wellington on Thursday next, the former from Lyttelton and the latter from Picton. They will be here until April 2, during which time the ship’s complements will undergo instruction in musketry training at Trentham. From there the Laburnum will go to Wanganui, and the Veronica to Nelson.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3861, 13 March 1928, Page 11
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