ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 64, 14 September 1908, Page 6

ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.

NIMROD TO SAIL ON Ist

DECEMBER

[PKESS ASSOCIATION-] CHRISTCHURCH, Saturday

It is understood -thatt he- British Antarctic expedition ship -Nixnrod will leave Lyt'teltoriT "on"' December Ist on her second trip to the Antarctic regions. ■ The vessel has now been in Lyttelton nearly seven months since her return from the sotith, and during that time her officers and men who stayed by her have not been idle. A large amount of work has been done recently in connection with the overhauling and repairing of the vessel to fit her to cope successfully with the elements during .her coming voyage/ The whole of the rigging has been thoroughly overhauled and repaired. A reporter who visited the Nimrod yesterday found that an important work was in progress. This consists in the extension of the living quarters below in the after-end of the vessel. The additional space is being obtained by expanding the living quarters into the after-hold^ portion of which is now being partitioned off by stout timber walls newly lined inside. When completed, the enlarged quarters will be more comfortable than those in the after deckhouse, which were occupied by the shore party on the trip to the ice. The Nimrod will ship." a full year's supply of stores before starting for the south, and the whole of the remaining available space will be filled with^oal. Lieutenant P. P. Evaus, R.N.R., of the Union Company, is •to take the command of the vessel for the next voyage south.