U.S. EXPEDITION’S FACILITIES
Study Being Made In
Christchurch
A study to determine the availability of improved facilities for the United States Antarctic expedition is being made in Christchurch by a United States Navy officer, Commander Herbert Whitney. With the R.N.Z.A.F. station Wigram, available for only another year or two as a base for Navy aircraft and men, and Weedons camp, where the United States Air Force men are housed, on the list for closing down, Commander Whitney is studying other facilities available. When his study is completed he will fly to Washington to report. The transit quarters at Harewood is one of the areas being considered as. accommodation for the Americans, but nothing will be done until the tenants have gone and no hastening of the evacuation of the quarters is being sought. Christchurch airport is the one permanent fixture and a concentration of all the expedition’s activities there would solve many problems, but nothing is at present being planned.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28700, 25 September 1958, Page 7
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