NEW ZEALAND NAVY
ADMIRALTY’S OFFER. ANY VESSELS DOMINION WANTS. (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, August 13. The Admiralty awaits the New Zealand Government’s decision regarding naval requirements. It first offered a modern light cruiser of the Canterbury class as a training ship, but she was unsuitable because an oil-burner. The Admiralty next offered a cruiser of the Liverpool type, whose maintenance would be costly. The position now is that New Zealafid can have whatever number and class of ships the Government decides will meet the dominion needs.
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Southland Times, Issue 18618, 16 August 1919, Page 5
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