ROUND TABLE CLUB.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 185, 6 August 1936, Page 14

ROUND TABLE CLUB.

The usual fortnightly dinner of the Auckland BusinesS and Professional Women's Round Table Club was held at the Cottage Tearooms. The speaker was Mr. R. Falla, who gave a graphic account of, some of his experiences in the Antarctic when he was a member of the llawson expedition in 1929-1931. Mr. Falla told how the Discovery called at Heard Island, thought to be uninhabited, and found a', hut erected by some sealers and in a bottle in the hut a note written by a French geologist, Dr. de la Rue, of Paris, Celling how he and his wife had been conducting geological investigations on the island some six months before. That was in 1929, and last week when tli© Monterey ,was in Auckland two geologists called on Mr. Falla in his official capacity at the museum and he discovered they were the same Dr. and Madame de la Rue, who had left the note on Heard. Island. Mr. Falla said that although polar exploration was not considered suitable for women he knew of several who had crossed the Arctic circle in sealers, one being a stewardess on a Norwegian boat.