NAVAL STAFF TALKS
Re-Equipment, Training
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, July 21. Australia might supply ammunition to the Royal New Zealand Navy, said Rear-Admiral P. Phipps, Chief of the Naval Staff, when he returned to Auckland from a conference of British Australian and New Zealand naval authorities in Sydney. There were full discussions, he said, of the re-equipment requirements for all three forces. New Zealand needed more Whitby frigates, and Australia was in the process of complementing its force to replace the Fleet Air Arm which it had disbanded.
Although many plans had not been ratified, there was a desire, he said, to maintain the uniformity of equipment in the three navies.
It was also decided that there should be closer co-operation between the three countries’ naval forces. There would be further integration of New Zealand’s sea training. Exercises, such as the one in the Tasman Sea last March, would go further afield.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29263, 22 July 1960, Page 7
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