The Duke Visits Anakiwa

While the Queen was on her way from Nelson to Blenheim, the Duke of Edinburgh flew to the Cobham Outward Bound School at Anakiwa and saw the fourth intake of boys at work. The Duke, who. is patron of the Outward Bound movement, spent an hour at Anakiwa before flying to Woodbourne and thence to Blenheim. All pix on these two pages were by Peter Cooper.

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The Duke, with the school warden, Mr Hamish Thomas (extreme left), inspects the boys' guard of honour

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While the boys did amazing things overhead, the Duke looked on with quiet amusement ("You need a parachute up there", he said).

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Against a backdrop of photographers the Duke and Major Adrian Hayter watch the boys prepare the whaleboats for a sail

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John Hebron (bushcraft instructor) found the Duke an attentive listener

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Then Prince Philip saw what bushcraft lessons the boys had learned

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Meeting the cook, Mrs Kempton

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One yachtsman to another: the Duke and Major Haytar found a lot to talk about