NAVAL SQUADRON
REPLACEMENT OF SLOOPS
TWO NEW VESSELS
(By Telegraph..—Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, This Day,
, Information has been received in Auckland that: the naval, sloops Veronica and Laburnum, which have been','about,, twelve years on the New Zealand .Station, are to be replaced-by vessels of- similar . design now,' being built in England. The new vessels will be oil burners and faster.
; , The Veronica will be replaced in 1934; and the Laburnum in 1935..
/ The replacement is said to be part of the naval programme which aims at Te: moving all wartimei. sloops. from commission by 1936.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 119, 16 November 1932, Page 11
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94NAVAL SQUADRON Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 119, 16 November 1932, Page 11
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