NAVAL EXERCISES
PLANS FOR MOCK BATTLE.
SCENE OFF NORTH CAPE.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, June 15. Further provisional arrangements have been made for the combined naval exercises to he carried out in New Zealand Avaters by the two cruisers from the New Zealand Division of the Royal Navy and ships from the Royal Australian Navy. It is hoped that the Australian cruisers Canberra and Australia, probably accompanied by the destroyer Tattoo, Avill arrive off North Cape toward the end of August. They are expected to remain in New Zealand Avaters until the end of September.
The.Dunedin,’ flagship of Commodore Burges-Watson, will leave to-morrow on the annual island cruise and will return on August 15. By that time the Diomede, which is undergoing a refit at the Devon port Naval Base, will probably be recommissioned, and tlie two cruisers will meet the Australian ships off North Cape. A mock battle is to be held. All the ships will then probably put into Russell, and a regatta and other competitions between the ships will he held. The warships arc then expected to proceed to Auckland.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 16 June 1933, Page 5
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183NAVAL EXERCISES Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 16 June 1933, Page 5
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