FRIGATE RETURNS TO LYTTELTON
Reservists Complete Sea Training Twenty-five Royal New Zealand Naval Reservists from Canterbury returned to Lytteltoh on Friday in H.M.N.Z.S. Kaniere. after a week of practical sea training. The Loch-class frigate, which is commanded by Lieutenant-Com-mander J. W. Dickie, left Lyttelton for Bluff last Sunday morning with the reservists on board. The Kaniere carried 130 territorials of the Otago-Southland Regiment from Bluff to Ulva Island, in Paterson Inlet. While they engaged in all-night jungle “warfare” with an enemy, which had landed on the island previously, the vessel carried out magnetic surveys near Stewart Island. Yesterday the Kaniere sailed for Wellington with another group of Canterbury reservists and will later visit Nelson with RearAdmiral P. Phipps, who will attend the opening of the new Nelson wharf. From, Nelson, Kaniere will go to Dunedin. The reservists will leave the ship when the vessel returns to Lyttelton in a week’s time.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29367, 21 November 1960, Page 18
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