NZ Warships Sail for Cruises
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Cruises in Pacific
THREE units of the Royal New Zea land Navy, cruiser Bellona and frigates Tutira and Rotoiti, left Auckland in May on a winter visit to the Pacific. Bellona and Rotoiti will not return until July 28 and Tutira will re turn on June 29.
Tire ships will carry out separate cruises. Bellona (Captain J. H. Ruck Keene, QBE, DSC, RN), will call at islands of the Tongan, Fijian and Samoan groups; Tutira (Lieutenant-Commander P. J. Hoare, RN), will visit the islands of the Fijian, Gilbert and Ellice groups; and Rotoiti (Lieutenant-Commander A. C. B.
Blomfield, DSC, RN), will visit the Cook, Tongan, Fijian and Samoan groups.
The three cruises have been planned to meet naval commitments and the re quirements of the Western Pacific High Commission, the Fijian authorities, the Department of Island Territories and the Meteorological Service. Officials of the various islands groups will be embarked and meteorological officers will visit various stations.
On her voyage from Auckland to Suva the Tutira will pay a brief visit to the Kermadec Group, to land stores.