N.Z. NAVY SLOOPS.
WORK AT RUSSELL. [THE PBESS Special Service.] AUCKLAND, January 9. HjM.S. LSburnum lias returned to port after an absence of eleven days. Leaving Auckland on December 28th, the Laburnum first called at Port Fitzroy, Great Barrier, and next proceeded to" Whangaruru, Whangaroa, and Russell. On her return run she called at Kawau.
; Tije trip was in the nature of a trial run. the sloop having recently completea refitting at Russell. Preliminary work taking soundings and checking charts in anticipation of the visit of H.M.S. Renown was done.
The Laburnum, accompanied by the Veronica, is to leave Auckland for Russell during the latter half of the present month to take soundings and to prepare an anchorage for the Renown..
The majority of the Laburnum's crew, who ha,ve completed their time on the New Zealand station, will leave for England this month. Tho now men are-due to reach Wellington by the Corinthio on Monday.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19270110.2.62
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18895, 10 January 1927, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
155N.Z. NAVY SLOOPS. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18895, 10 January 1927, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
Ngā mihi
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in