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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 282, 18 February 1928, Page 2

A GERMAN EXPEpiTION.—-Th,e German Navy has made it a special task to improve ocean charts with the help of modern echo sounding apparatus. Valuable results have been obtained by the Meteor and the cruiser Emden. The cruiser Berlin is now going to make another trip to the waters of Eastern Asia and the Pacific Ocean, and she has been ordered to make careful measurements at all points where the charts show shoals, which in those waters may undergo alterations from earthquakes. This task has been given to the cruiser as a consequence of the loss of the Principessa Mafalda, which, according to Italian reports, struck an unknown shoal. Further, the Berlin is to check carefully the greatest depth ever found, which was reported in April of this year by the German cruiser Emden to be a depth of 33,000 ft. near Celebes. The instruments of the Berlin are of an improved type. She will be the first German naval vessel to call at Indian and Australian ports since the war. HINEMOA ARRIVES.—The Government steamer Hinemoa returned to Auckland from Niue Island yesterday afternon. The vessel berthed at King’s Wharf to load 1,770 cases of bananas and 30 tons of copra, as well as a small quantity of general cargo. On Monday she is to go into dock for cleaning and she is to be dispatched for Norfolk Island next Thursday.