THE AMERICAN FLEET.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1925, Page 7

THE AMERICAN FLEET.

IN AUSTRALIA TO-MORROW. WELCOME BY SEAPLANE. FLIGHT MADE TO SEA. By’ Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received July 21, 8.35 p.m. Sydney, July 21. The American Fleet is now off the Australian coast. One section will arrive at Melbourne and the other section at Sydney to-morrow morning. The Italian aviator Pinedo has decided to postpone his flight until Friday to enable him to meet the American fleet at Melbourne. At 8.30 a.m. to-day Flight Lieutenants Mclntyre and Hempel circled over the American Fleet 120 miles off the coast of New South Wales.

Admiral Coontz, in a message to the Australian people from on board the Seattle, says: “The whole fleet keenly anticipates the visit and already before landing we have received innumerable messages of welcome. An Australian seaplane this morning circled above the fleet in the rain and mist. I am sorry we were unable to send up a plane to meet him, but we did not expect him owing to the state of the weather.” VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND. MESSAGE FROM THE ADMIRAL. By Telegraph—Press Association Wellington, July 21. Admiral Coontz, in a letter to the Department of Internal Affairs, expresses himself as well pleased with the arrangements for entertaining the fleet and congratulates the authorities on the thoroughness of the information sent. The admiral suggests that in connection with shore leave advisory information to officers and men as to points of interest will be welcomed. The official Government programme provides for this, as at Auckland and Wellington a bureau is to be set up near the whraves for the express purpose of giving such information and similar facilities are to be provided at Lyttelton and Dunedin. Arrangements will be made for visits of large partie® to Hamilton, Masterton, Napier, Palmerston North and Wanganui. Successive batches will be taken to Rotorua, and some of them to Waitomo Caves.