Food And Medical Supplies Sent

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30981, 10 February 1966, Page 1

Food And Medical Supplies Sent

(New Zealand Press Association!

AUCKLAND, February 9. ” Sixteen tons of urgently-needed food and medical supplies will be flown to Western Samoa tomorrow from Auckland.

The supplies are being sent by the New Zealand Red Cross Society in a Royal New Zealand Air Force Hercules transport aircraft.

The Auckland centre i to dale has received J £ls7—and a ticket in the No. 10 Mammoth lottery—towards the I national appeal for the j relief of hurricane vici tints. The national commissioner 'I of tlie society, Mr C. F. Mcj Lennan, and the wife of the

Ombudsman, Lady Powles, will fly to Samoa to help with the relief work of the Red Cross there. The cleaning up after the hurricane is proceeding rapidly. Power has been restored to major facilities and many villages. Teen-agers returned to two of American Samoa’s high schools on Tuesday, nine days after the multi-million dollar hurricane in which 42 lives were lost in American and Western Samoa. A team of federal disaster experts were scheduled to leave Hawaii for Pago Pago I today. ' Debris picked up by the American Coast Guard cutter, Cape Providence, 60 miles north-east of Apia yesterday, is now thought not to be from the missing ketch, Marinero. A spokesman for the rescue i co-ordination centre in Nandi. Fiji, said the wreckage had been viewed by five persons who knew the ketch and the identification was negative. As a final check, the spokesman said the wreckage would

be viewed by Mr Donald Miller, of Pago Pago, who was a great friend of the skipper of the missing yacht. The Marinero, with five persons abroad, was due to arrive in Apia on February 1 from Wallis Island.