DEFENCE UNITS IN EXERCISES
NAVY, ARMY AND AIR
FORCES
(United Press Association)
AUCKLAND, February 12. Units of the Navy, Army and Air Force combined for the first time in New Zealand in large-scale exercises at the Week-end.
The manoeuvres were planned principally to test the fixed defences of the port of Auckland and a series of situations possible in the time of a crisis were taken to the defending forces cooperating in meeting them. Guns and lights of the defences were manned continuously from noon on Saturday until noon today. The escort vessel, Wellington, represented in turn a friendly, neutral, allied and hostile vessel'and as the enemy ship was engaged in a spectacular mock battle with three aircraft of the Auckland territorial squadron and shore batteries. Senior officers of the three services watched the manoeuvres.
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Southland Times, Issue 23741, 13 February 1939, Page 7
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