Climb by airmen

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32661, 17 July 1971, Page 9

Climb by airmen

(N.Z. Press Association) BLENHEIM, July 15. Five airmen from the R.N.Z.A.F. base at Woodbourne, part of the base’s voluntarily-manned search and rescue organisation, tomorrow will begin an ascent of Mount Tapuanenuku (9465 ft the highest peak in the South Island outside the Southern Alps. The four-day venture is part of a training programme for a ascent later this year of Mount Cook. The search and rescue team at Woodbourne is a semi-service activity responsible for the Wairau Valley area of Marlborough.

The five men will be lifted from Woodbourne to the Hodder Hut, 4706 ft up Mount Tapuaenuku, in a helicopter. From there they will scale Tapuaenuku and traversecountry into the Clarence and then walk out to Kekerengu, on the east coast where they will be met by road transport and brought back to Woodbourne.

Pension mission

The chairman of the International Families Fund (Mrs J. R. Eden), will visit New Zealand in August. Mrs Eden has a mission to meet all British former servicemen or their relatives who are not receiving a British war pension, according to information received from the New Zealand High Commission in London yesterday. Mrs Eden said the British Government had given her an undertaking to create a fund for such people. Her proposed threeweek itinerary includes visits to main cities and a six-day trip to the Southern Lakes.— (PA.)