Ice Breaker
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To Aid Niue
When this helicopter dropped in from the US Navy Ice-breaker “Staten Island”, one day last March, the people of Niue could not have been more surprised if it had been a flying-saucer. It was Niue’s first sight of this type of aircraft and (top photograph), some of the people can be seen examining it while Cap tain Blake Lewis had tea with the Resident Commissioner.
Lower photo shows the platform on “Staten Island” where the heli copter comes down to roost.
An ice-breaker in Niue waters is unusual enough of itself. But it was in Wellington, NZ, in March, when the severe hurricane struck Niue, 1,600 miles away but on the ice breaker’s route home from Antarctic duty. US authorities immediately placed “Staten Island” at the dis posal of NZ and five tons of canned food and a quarter-ton bale o)cloth ing were loaded for distressed Niue.
At end of April, NZ hurricane relief fund for Niue was £NZ3O,OOU.