NAVAL MOVEMENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 123, 21 November 1932, Page 8

NAVAL MOVEMENTS

DIQMEDE, SAILS TO- ' 'MORROW - ,:

H.M.S. Diomede, flagship-of the New Zealand Division of the Eoyal Navy, is to leave Wellington to-morrow fot Auckland, where she is due on Thursday. : She wil) go into dock for three or four, days' for cleaning, and Christmas leave" will be granted to her ratings in two watches of fourteen days each H.M.S. Dunedin will return to' Auckland from her southern cruise on Bth December, and will also grant Christmas leave in two watches. '■'

Owing to the decision to have the Diomede refitted in Auckland next year, instead of sending her back to England,, the,future, movements of the cruisers are indefinite.

■The'two- sloops, Veronicar and Laburnum, completed their ; overhaul and refit at Devonport on: Saturday. On sth December they will leavo for the Haurak-i Gulf, where they will carry out exercises and gunnery practice'together. The Admiralty minesweeper Wakakura will accompany the sloops to tow the target. The Laburnum will return to port on ,16th December, and will grant Christmas leave to her ratings in two watches before lea vine for Tauranga on 17th January, on the first stage of her New Zealand summer cruise.

The movements of the Veronica have not yet been decided. There is a possibilitj that she' may sailoofn f her southern cruise direct; from the .Hauraki Gulf after the completion of exercises The Admiralty oil tanker Nueula wili undergo a special survey at Devonport in January.