N.Z. NAVY

Wairarapa Daily Times, 13 April 1935, Page 5

N.Z. NAVY

9 » WARSHIP MOVEMENTS.

After a stay of more than a month, during which their ratings went through musketry courses at Treritliam, H.M. ships Diomede and Leith departed from Wellington yesterday for Auckland, where they are duo to-morrow.

H.M.S. Dunedin will now recommission at Auckland after her recent extensive refit. The new commodore, Captain the Hon. E. B. Drummond, is a passenger in the Mataroa, which is due at Auckland from England on 24th April. It is expected that all the ships of the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy will be at Auckland when Captain Drummond takes over the command from Rear-Admiral F. Burges Watson.

H.M.S. Diomede, on arrival at Auckland to-morrow, will give leave by watches to her New Zealand ratings. Early next month she will probably go out with the Dunedin into Hauraki Gulf for gunnery and other exercises. About the middle of June both cruisers will matoi their annual cruises to the Pacific Mands. Lyu new Imperial sloop, H.M.S. Wellington, commanded by Commander J. B. E. Hall, is at present en route from England. She is to replace H.M.S. Laburnam, which Ifift for Singapore in February. The new sloop is due at Wellington, the port after which she is named* on 13th May, and will arrive at Auckland on 20th May.