COMING TO AUCKLAND.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 97, 26 April 1932, Page 8

COMING TO AUCKLAND.

RESEARCH SHIP DISCOVER*.

DUE NEAR END OF JUNE.

EXPEDITION TO SOUTH SEAS.

Advice has been received by the Auckland Harbour Board that tho Royal research ship Discovery will visit Auckland towards tho latter end of June. Arrangements will bo made to entertain the officers and crew.

News that the Discovery is to call at Auckland was received by the board from the Marino Department, which had received its information from the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs.

The vessel at present 011 her way to the Dominion is not the famous Discovery, specially built for the expedition led by Captain R. F. Scott in 1001. In 1925, said Mr. R. A. Falla to-day, the original vessel was commissioned by the Colonial Office with funds supplied by the Falkland Islands Government to study the life habits of whales, with a view to aiding the industry. Four years later she was handed over to Sir Douglas Mawson for his expedition.

The Discovery Committee, a scientific body under the control of the Colonial Office, built another ship, this time of iron, and called her the "Discovery II." This is the vessel that is coming to New Zealand.

On board there are a body of scientists, whose object it is to make an expedition into the South Seas for the study of marine life.

The cruise will last approximately for two years.

On board the ship os an echo-sounder, by means of which rises and falls in the bed of the ocean may be measured.