CANADIAN AIRMEN AT WHENUAPAI
Two Argus Aircraft Arrive (New Zealand Press Association! AUCKLAND. September 23. Forty-eight Canadian airmen landed at Whenuapai today in two Argus sub-killer aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force Maritime Air Command. The Canadians are on a goodwill visit to Australia and New Zealand. They are demonstrating their aircraft—claimed to be the last and most lethal word in antisubmarine warfare —and while in Auckland will take part in a combined air-sea exercise with ships of the New Zealand, Australian and British Navies. One of the aircraft is to fly to Ohakea, Wellington and Christchurch during the six. days the Canadians will spend in New Zealand.
The airmen are commanded by Group Captain J. H. Roberts, an Australian who joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1939. The Canadians are making a television film of their 18,000mile tour for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and are travelling with an Air Force public relations team consisting of a writer and two cameramen, under Squadron Leader R. Wood
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29008, 24 September 1959, Page 15
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