DEFECT DELAYS NEW FRIGATE
(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, May 8. The frigate HJW.N.Z.S. Blackpool, on passage to Auckland from the Far East, has been delayed with an engineering defect and would not be home on Friday as planned, a Navy Office spokesman said today.
While on passage from Brisbane to Sydney the frigate signalled that owing to difficulties with her feed pumps she had reduced speed and would now arrive in Sydney on Wednesday. In Sydney the defects will be fully examined and repaired at the naval dockyard.
The Blackpool was commissioned in the United Kingdom in June last year and sailed for the Far East station where she served for six months as part of New Zealand’s contribution to the Commonwealth Strategic Reserve.
She has been relieved at Singapore by the frigate H.M.N.Z.S. Taranaki.
Social Studies Tour.— Thirty-five pupils from Papakura High School who are on a social studies tour of the South Island stayed at Linwood High School on Saturday and Sunday evenings, reported the headmaster, Mr P. A. Hickling, at the monthly meeting of the board of governors last evening. The pupils were accompanied by two teachers.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31364, 9 May 1967, Page 18
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