AUCKLANDER’S TRIP ON DESTROYER
AUCKLAND, April 12. After a trip to Australia as a friend of the caotain of the Australian destroyer Bataan, Mr R. P. Worley, an Auckland consulting engineer, returned from Sydney by the Skymaster to-day. On the second day out the Bataan towed targets for Australia during gunnery practice, said Mr Worley. The four-hour speed test at 32 knots was “a bit of a thrill.” What interested him most, said Mr Worley, was radar equipment. Sydney Heads showed up first as a pinpoint of light on the illuminated dial, and slowly took shape in outline. The heads could have been navigated in the thickest fog. Mr Worley was in Australia advising on the establishment of a paperpulp factory to be based on New Guinea kunai grass.
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Grey River Argus, 13 April 1948, Page 7
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