Big Battleship in Wellington Harbour

Manawatu Times, Volume 65, Issue 1, 2 January 1940, Page 7

Big Battleship in Wellington Harbour

H.M.S. RAMILLIES ARRIVES Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Jan. 1. H.M.S. Ramillics, a battleship of the Royal Sovereign type having a displacement of 29,150 tons and including in her armament eight 15-inch guns, lias arrived in Wellington. The great ship presented a splendid picture as she steamed up Port Nicholson on a bril liant summer day. Word quickly spread that she was entering port and hundreds watched her from Wellington’s many vantage points. The Ramillies is berthed at Pipitea wharf and will be open for inspection by tho public on Thursday and Friday. There will bo special arrangements for children to see the ship on Thursday but not on Friday. Immediately on her arrival official calls were made on her commanding officer, Captain H. T. Baillie-Grohman, D. 5.0., 0.8. E., R.N., by the chief of the New Zealand Naval Staff, Commodore H. E. Horan, Commander A. B. Fanshawo and the Naval •Secretary, Paymaster-Captain N. T. J 5. Cooper. Captain Baillie-Grohman called on the Chief of the General Staff, MajorGeneral J. E. Duigan, and tho general o'fficer commanding the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, MajorGeneral B. C. Freyberg. Later Captain Baillie-Grohman called on the Deputy Prime Minister (Hon. P. Fraser) and the Minister of Defence (Hon. F. Jones), who returned the

calls. The captain also called on the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in New Zealand, Sir Harry Batterbec. A streamer displayed pruminentlv from the masts of the Itamillies bearing the words “Well done, the Achilles!’ • is a fine tribute from a battleship of the Royal Navy to the part played by a ship from the New Zealand naval station, H.M.S. Achilles, in the battle with the Admiral Graf Hpee. Complete arrangements have been made by the Government and the city of Wellington to entertain the men of the Ramillies.

PARIS: Franco has reached an agreement with Belgium and Luxembourg granting important industrial and agricultural credits in return for the maintenance of normal exports to France.