AUSTRALIAN NAVY VISIT

Taranaki Daily News, 1 September 1933, Page 9

AUSTRALIAN NAVY VISIT

WARSHIPS AT AUCKLAND ESCORT OF THREE SEAPLANES. GUNNERY PRACTICE NEXT WEEK. ROUND OF SPORTS ARRANGED. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Aug. 31. Escorted by a New Zealand seaplane and two Australian fiying-boats and led by H.M.A.S. Canberra, four warships came up the Hauraki Gulf at the dawn of a perfect spring day and arrived in the harbour at 7 o’clock. H.M.A.S. Australia followed the Canberra and then came H.M.S. Dunedin, flagship of the New Zealand Division, and H.M.S. Diomede. The New Zealand cruisers showed up much smaller than their visitors with their high rakish masts and three funnels.

H.M.A.S. Canberra berthed at the Central Wharf, H.M.A.S. Australia anchoring in the stream, while the New Zealand cruisers went to their usual berth at Devonport. Official' calls were paid this morning on Rear-Admiral Dalglish by the Mayor of Auckland and the chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board. The Australian visitors will stay a week and a- round of sports and social engagements has been arranged, including inter-squadron Soccer, Rugby, hockey and golf contests. Next Wednesday all four ships will leave for gunnery practice in the Hauraki Gulf with aircraft co-operation. The Canberra and Australia will then sail for southern ports.