TASMAN BAY FREE OF SUBMARINES
Search Made As Part Of Exercises (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, Jan. 2. Tasman Bay is tree of enemy mines and submarines, according to the Royal New Zealand Naval Volunteer Reserve squadron, which is exercising in the Marlborough Sounds area. The squadron, which comprises seaward defence motor launches from the Auckland. Wellington. Canterbury and Otago divisions, and the Naval Fishery Protection motor-launch Mako, searched the bay for submarines as part of its six-day communications and seamanship exercises. The five craft covered many square miles of the bay with comprehensive search patterns and manoeuvres. After returning to Nelson, the senior officer of the squadron. Lieutenant-Commander A. H. Edgington, of Wellington, told the commanding officers that the exercise had been most successful. On Saturday, the five launches divided. The Wellington, Canterbury, and Otago craft went to Te Mahia and the Auckland and fishery protection launches to The Portage.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29402, 3 January 1961, Page 3
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