Japanese For Icebreakers
Three Japanese Antarctic men will arrive in Christchurch today to join American naval icebreakers. They will spend two months in the icebreakers to get experience in ship-handling in ice.
Their purpose is to become qualified to participate in the planning of future Japanese Antarctic operations.
They are Captain Tosharu Honda and Commander
Kazuo Akatsuka, both of the Japanese Maritime Service Defence Force, and Mr Mitsui Matsumoto of the Japanese Maritime Safety Agency. They win leave Lyttelton in the icebreakers next week.
field Work.—Victoria University will buy the remaining buildings of a disused sawmill settlement at Taurewa, near Tongariro National Park. The site, about 220 males from Wellington, will be used for field work.— CPA.)
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30277, 1 November 1963, Page 10
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