DELUGE AT GREYMOUTH MILITARY CHIEFS ON VISIT

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29334, 13 October 1960, Page 17

DELUGE AT GREYMOUTH

MILITARY CHIEFS ON VISIT

Guests Of U.S. Navy Attache Military attaches. of embassies' and legations in Wellington hold a monthly luncheon and yesterday they flew to Christchurch by United States Navy Skymaster as guests of the United States Naw Attache (Commander L. C. Knowles), along with the United States Ambassador (Mr F. H. Russell). and New Zealand service chiefs. United States Navy film cameramen and United States Air Force photographers took pictures of the party as they filed down the Skymaster gangway, led by the Ambassador. They were greeted by Captain A. H. Ashton, senior United States officer at Harewood, Commander J. Haskell, chief-of-staff to Rear Admiral D. M. Tyree, and Commander F. Kimberling, Harewood base commander. The Guests In the party were the Chief of Naval Staff (Rear Admiral P. Phipps) and Commodore J. Stanners, second member of the New Zealand Naval Board, the Adju-tant-General (Brigadier W. S. McKinnon), the Assistant-Chief of Air Staff (Air Commodore R. J. Cohen), and Group Captain T. J. de Lange, director of Training, Air Headquarters, the United States Army Attache (Colonel M. B. Miller), the Public Affairs Officer (Mr J. B. Lanum), the United Kingdom High Commissioner’s naval, military and air advisers (Captain A. Turnbull, Colonel Sir Thomas Butler, and Group Captain J. H. L. Blount), the Australian High Commissioner’s defence representative (Colonel S. A. Fletcher), and Captain D. M. Todd, Wellington harbourmaster. Shortly after their arrival, a United States Navy ski-equipped Hercules transport plane flew low over the airport in greeting. The party was taken first to see the headquarters buildings and then across the airfield to inspect another Hercules ready for a flight to the Antarctic. They also saw a United States Air Force Military Air Transport Service C-124 Globemaster being examined for a fault in its port inboard engine. The plane returned to Christchurch only a few hours before on three engines after developing engine trouble on the way back from Antarctica. The party also went aboard a second Globemaster loaded with a tractor, a spare aero engine, and other supplies to be taken to McMurdo Sound. After the tour of inspection, the party lunched at the base officers’ mess.