NAVAL MOVEMENTS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 July 1932, Page 3

NAVAL MOVEMENTS

AUCKLAND. July.'!; With the departure of (H.M.3. Diomede on her annual Island' all the cruisers and sloops of 1 the Now Zealand Division of the Royal 'Navy will he absent from port, iinlill the return of H.M.S. Dunedin on "August -2 from her .extended refit dn. England. The Diomede will not return ;tp.'Auckland until August 26, but din ing her Isfeuid cruise she will meet the Dunedin at Bora Bora, on July. 20.’ BelWp the Dunedin’s departure for England she was flagship of the squadron, hut when, she rejoins tlhe station! it is not expected that Commodore F. Burges Watson wild transfer his broad pennant to her until the departure of the' Diomede toward the middle lof next year for refit in England,- ... j i During ■ her Island cruise, the Diomede will take the Bishop of Polynesia, Bishop Kemptliorne, on a. tour of mapy of the islands of his diocese., Bishop Kemptliorne will embark on- the . Diomede at Nukualofa on July 7 and pil'd disembark at Suva on August. 4. During her stay at Lautoka, in the Fiji group, from August 18 to, 22, the D:o----mede will meet the two sloops, the Veronica and,.title Laburnum, and a regatta will be lieldi -crews from the three ships competing. ..... After her departure ’tire Diomede- wiU held no rial target practice in tile Hnnraki Gulf in conjunction, with aircraft from the Hobsonvihe air bn.se. Sliort!v after her return on August 26, the cruiser will make h southern, cruise, v siting several New Zealand port'. ‘ c he "41! return jba Auckland before Christmas.