VISIT OF BRITISH SLOOP
ITINERARY OF H.M.S. OPOSSUM <P-A> .WELLINGTON, June 14. Information has been received from JS e . B vVE s £ Fleet authorities tnat H.M.S. Opossum will arrive in New Zealand next weak. The Minister °J J?. efe nce (the Hon. F. Jones) stated this evening that the Opossum would arrive at Picton from Sydney on June 21. She would leave there on June 23 for Napier, where she was due the following day. The Opossum -would leave Napier on June 26 for Gisborne, where she would arrive the next day. The warship would leave Gisborne on June 29 for Auckland, and leavq Auckland for Sydney on July 3. The Opossum is a modern sloop of the Royal Navy of 1800 tons, and carries a company of 11 officers and 160 men. '
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24902, 15 June 1946, Page 8
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