NAVAL TRAINING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 541, 26 May 1933, Page 5

NAVAL TRAINING

(Press Assn.—

JOINT MANOEUVRES ' AUSTRALIAN SQUADRON MAY VISIT NEW zealand COMBINED EXERCISES

-By Telegraph — Copyright).

Auckland, Thursday. A feature of naval training in New Zealand waters this year, is a possible visit to the Dominion in September of an Australian squadron, to carry out a programme of comhined exercises and manoeuvres with the New Zealand diyision of the Royal Navy. On seyeral occasions in the past, New Zealand eruisers have met the Australian navy in the Tasman and have carried out valuable comhined training, but df th'e visit eventuates here, it will mark the first occasion on which comhined exercises liave been carried out in N.ew Zealand waters. The exercises will probably take place in the Hauraki Gulf, and it is hoped that the eruisers, Australia and Canberra, together with two destroyers will make the trip across the Tasman. In addition to the Dunedin and the Diomede, air-cxaft ' from the Hobsonville air base will take part in the manoeuvres, and as in the past, a mock naval battle will probably he held. Provided the Australian squadron makes the trip1 the warships are almost certain to call at Auckland, but it is not known whether provision has been made for visits to Southern ports. The Imperial sloops, Veronica and Laburnum, may not take part in the exercises, as both are making extended island cruises this yeai\