Mock Raid at Auckland
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Searchlights swept the sea and sky and coastal batteries went into action when aircraft and motor torpedo boats launched a mock raid 'on Auckland harbour objectives a short time ago. Units of the three services participated in the exercise, which is regarded as a most satisfactory test of defence arrangements by the officer commanding the Northern Military District, Colonel N. W. McD. Weir.
With details and plans unknown to the officers and men charged with the safeguarding of the port the scheme was prepared in order to exercise the defence of the city and co-ordinate the personnal responsible. To make conditions more realistic, the port was closed and a black-out practised at the naval dockyard and on ships in the vicinity.
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Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 5, 12 January 1940, Page 6
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127Mock Raid at Auckland Camp News, Volume 1, Issue 5, 12 January 1940, Page 6
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