RANUI RETURNS FROM TRIP TO. CAMPBELLS
WELLINGTON. Dec. 23. Tlie Public Works Department. ketck Ranui- be-rtked at the Queen 's Wharf on Saturday after a fast round trip to Oampbeil Island in 22 days. The Ranui left Wellington on November 29 with a relief parly of meteorologu-at ionosphere and- other . seientilic ob. servers for the island. The partv relieved from duty returned to New Zealand on the ketch and disembarked- at Dunedin. Also on board was a cameraman from the Government Film Btudios at Miramar who travelled to Campbell Island to photograph the work and the wild life there. Supplies of food suffieient for 12 months wert delivered to the island. The relief partv were almost settled in when the Ranui left the previous Sunday. The meteorological work on Campbell Island is of great importanee to the 'Dominion as the island is the furthest poi-nt south from which weather reports are received daily. The Ranui will now be laid up for her annual overliaul which sliould take about three weeks but will return to Gainpbell Island about the end of January with more seientilic equipment and a relieving officer from the Department of Scientihc and Industrial Research. She* will remain there until June and will. then return to Wellington for mai! and ini^wihlef ,stpres.. .
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Chronicle (Levin), 24 December 1946, Page 5
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