PATROLS IN PACIFIC
DOMINION SHIPS OF WAR CRUISER AND SLOOPS (Special to tho Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. For the second time since she was commissioned by Commander L. O. P. Tndway at Wellington last December, the Imperial sloop Leith will leave for the Pacific Islands in a fortnight, when she is to begin her annual winter cruise. The other sloop, H.M.S. Wellington, left, on a similar cruise on May 4, part of her duties being the embarkation of the party of scientists who intend to observe the solar eclipse from Canton Island in the Phccnix Group. This party joined the sloop at Suva last Friday, and will be landed at Canton Island to-day. Leaving Auckland on June 7, the Leith will make her first call at Suva and her cruise will later embrace the New Hebrides and tho Solomon Islands Groups and other Islands before she returns to Auckland on September 13.
The Wellington’s programme provides for visits to additional groups, and with the flagship, H.M.S. Achilles, leaving on a similar cruise on June 12, arrangements have been made this year for one of the most comprehensive patrols ever made by ships on the New Zealand station. ,
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19333, 25 May 1937, Page 5
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