Airdrop At Chathams
(N.Z. Press Association)
WELLINGTON. Aug. 16. Mail and urgently-needed spare parts for the Chatham Islands school bus were dropped by a R.N Z.A.F Sunderland aircraft today. The aircraft arrived over a paddock target adjacent to the radio station just after 2 p.m. and was away again 10 minutes later. The drop by three parachutes was made in a strong south-west wind.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29903, 17 August 1962, Page 13
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