LIVE-SHELL PRACTICE
Anti-Aircraft Battery In Camp In Napier Dominion Special Service. NAPIER, March 13. Beginning tomorrow, live-shell practice will be carried out on the beach near Awatoto for four days by the 22nd AntiAircraft Battery, R.N.Z.A., Wellington, which is now camped on Napier Park racecourse. The firing position is near the mouth of the Ngaruroro River, and firing will be in a northerly direction out to sea. The effective range of the battery is seven miles, or 14.000 yards, and shipping has been warned to keep clear of Ibis area during the firing. On Tuesday. Wednesday and Thursday evenings special aids to night defence work will be in action. By means of detectors ami a searchlight platoon ibe buttery will endeavour Io detect the approach of planes aiming to attack Napier. Two machines, one from the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy, ami one from the Royal New Zealand Air Force, are to arrive at Napier tomorrow to co-operate in the filling practice.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 144, 14 March 1939, Page 6
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164LIVE-SHELL PRACTICE Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 144, 14 March 1939, Page 6
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