FRIGATE FOR FAR EAST

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29766, 8 March 1962, Page 16

FRIGATE FOR FAR EAST

Taranaki To Go Next Month (From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON, March 7. New Zealand would send one of her new frigates. H.M.NZ.S Taranaki, to the Far East as her contribution to the Commonwealth Strategic Reserve, said the Minister of Defence (Mr Eyre) today. The Taranaki will leave Auckland on April 30 and arrive at Singapore on May 21, calli.ig at Brisbane and Darwin on the way She will replace the Loch class frigate. H.M N.Z.S. Pukaki. which ic due back at Auckland in June after a year and five days. “It may not be generally realised that New Zealand has had at least one ship in the Far East for the last 12 years." Mr Eyre said. “Three days after the Government decided to support the United Nations in Korea, in 1950. the first two R.N Z N ships were on the way This contribution was maintained from then until the cease-fire three years later “After Korea we reduced our contribution to at least one ship and widened its employment by attaching it to the Royal Navy’s Far East Fleet as a unit of the Strategic Reserve,” he said. HMN Z S. Otago was at present in the Far East taking part in a Commonwealth exercise and training period She was due back on April 13.

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