RESEARCH IN ANTARCTIC
NO INFORMATION OF N.Z. EXPEDITIONS
(PA.) WELLINGTON, October 2. With an Australian scientific expedition leaving in a fortnight to establish stations at two points in Antarctica, with another big American force going south, and with 17 whaling expeditions already scheduled, scientific interest in New Zealand has once more turned to the part the Dominion might play in the southern continent. Last December, the Prime Minister (Mr P. Fraser) said the dispatch of a New Zealand expedition to establish a permanent scientific base in the Ross Dependency would be decided when the departmental committee investigating the matter had submitted its report. No report from the investigating committee has been published, and inquiries at the Prime Minister’s Department to-day revealed that there were “no new developments to report.”
As far as could be ascertained the only direct relation between New Zealand and the Antarctic this season will be the presence of a young New Zealand chemist of the Department o'f Scientific and Industrial Research, Mr B. V. Marsh, who will leave London on the whaling research ship Balaena which will carry out scientific research for three or four months, and then return to Britain.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25305, 3 October 1947, Page 8
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