SEE CRUISERS BEING BUILT FOR AUSTRALIA
PRIME MINISTERS PAY VISIT TO CLYDE. By *Telegraph.— Pr*»M Assn.—Copyright. Au 9. and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received November 26. 1 p.m.) LONpON, November 25. Glasgow provided one of its most dismal da3's, fog and drizzle prevailing for the visit of the Dominion Prime Ministers. Mr Coates and his party travelled earl} r and separately from Edinburgh. Mr Bruce and others followed later. They were welcomed at Aberconway by Sir Thomas Bell, chairman of visitors inspected Brown and Company, whose works at Clydeband the vistiors inspected. Here they saw the cruisers Australia and Canberra. The hull of the Australia is completed and she will be launched in February and commissioned a year later. The Canberra will be launched in May. Work has been held up owing to the strike and lack of material. The cruisers -frill include the latest improvements.
In the language of an Australian officer aboard, “they will Be the most efficient fighting machines permitted by the Washington Treaty.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18014, 26 November 1926, Page 9
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