FAST TRAVELLING.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 258, 13 August 1934, Page 6

FAST TRAVELLING.

SIR HUBERT WILKINS ARRIVES.

PLANS FOR EXPEDITION^. iPer Press Association). TIMARU, This Day. Sir' Hubert Wilkins arrived yesterday by the Port Nicholson, and left soon afterward for Christchurch, en route to join the Lincoln Ellsworth Expedition. Sir Hubert established a record for fast travelling. He was in New Zealand in May and since then lie has been in the United jStates and GieatBritain, returning by the East. He spent tlnee weeks in New York and then crossed the Atlantic to England, where he was engaged in perfecting his plans for his submarine expedition to the Arctic regions. From London he flew by an Imperial Airways liner to Singapore, then to, Sourabaya by a Dutch liner. He travelled 150 miles by motor-boat to Bangwang, where he connected with a boat for Broome. From Broome he travelled by air to Adelaide, then by train to Melbourne, and sailed .for New Zealand on the Port Nicholson. Sir Hubert said his plans were for an extension of meteorological r esearch in the Antarctic, the scheme to include the establishment and maintenance of 12 permanent stations .along the Antarctic Circle. His plans were not yet in a sufficiently advanced position for submission to .various scientific institutions for their consideration, but an his -return from his forthcoming expedition to the Antarctic, and when his projected submaiine tiip to the Arctic had been completed, he would have his scheme brought to the notice of scientific organisations in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, South America and the United States.