SCIENTISTS' CRUISE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 102, 3 May 1933, Page 5

SCIENTISTS' CRUISE.

YACHT REACHES SUVA. BOUND FOR THE SOLOMONS. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SUVA, April 25. The yacht Zaca, bound on a scientific research expedition in the Pacific, reached Suva yesterday. She is owned by Mr. Templeton Crocker, of San Francisco, who has with him among others Mrs. Gordon McGregor, of the Bishop Museum staff, Mr. Norton Steward, botanist, Dr. John F. Hvnes, Mr. M. J. Willows, entomologist, and Toslna Asaeda, photographer. The vessel will be joined here by Dr. S. J. Lambert, of the Rockefeller Foundation, and well known throughout the Western Pacific for his medical survey and preventive work among the Polynesians. He will carry on his medical survey during the rest of the voyage. The voyage is under the auspices^of the Bishop Museum and the Californian Academy of "Science, San Francisco. From Suva the Zaca will sail for Santa Cruz and the Solomon Islands, and will return to Suva about July 2t>. The Zaca visited Suva about- three years ago, when Mr. Crocker was enjoyin <r a pleasure cruise. She is a very handsome schooner yacht and a good sea [boat, • ■ < •