HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 103, 3 May 1929, Page 10

HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEY.

SOUTH ISLAND COAST. OTAGO INSTITUTE'S PLAN. 'USE OF ANTARCTIC SHIP. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. The Government approved a suggestion made by the Otago Institute that a committee be appointed to inquire into the question of using the Byrd Expedition's barque, the City of New York, for a hydrographic cruise on the New Zealand coast. On Wednesday the" committee met Captain Melville, master of the ship, and Lieutenant Shropshire, hydrographer of the Byrd expedition, to consider an offer made by Captain Melville, subject to Commander Byrd's approval, to undertake hydrographic work for the New Zealand Government. The committee recommends acceptance of the offer. It is proposed that the vessel be employed from June 1 until August 31 in making an east and west survey, at intervals of 50 miles, from Stewart Island to Banks Peninsula. The main object is to ascertain the strength, direction and hydrographic character of the current which flows up the East Coast, and to note how far it undergoes changes further north. The movements, migrations of fish and plankton appear to be largely influenced by the action and character of these currents.