SUPPLY DROP NOT MADE

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29263, 22 July 1960, Page 7

SUPPLY DROP NOT MADE

Campbell Island Flight Sixty knot winds and low cloud prevented the Royal New Zealand Air Force Bristol freighter aircraft from making its second supply drop on Campbell Island on Wednesday. Vegetables, fresh meat> second class mail and 141 b of first class mail from Christchurch and Wellington will have to wait until the end of the month when another attempt is made to drop supplies on the island.

Loaded to capacity with fuel, first class mail and general supplies, the freighter made a successful drop on Monday. Additional cargo could not be dropped on Tuesday because low cloud closed over the island. Failing to find an alternative dropping site, the aircraft returned- to Invercargill where it stayed overnight. Another attempt to make the drop on Wednesday was abandoned when reports were received from Campbell Island that 60 knot winds were blowing in the area and a cold front was moving up from the south. The aircraft returned to its base at Whenuapai. It is proposed to try another drop before the end of the month when a Bristol freighter will carry two and a half tons of equipment and a party of eight men to Invercargill for a Royal New Zealand Navy survey.