INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28702, 27 September 1958, Page 11

INTERNATIONAL CO-OPERATION

Nations Welcome In Ross Sea

New Zealand would be pleased to co-operate with any nation in the Ross Dependency, the Dominion’s chief scientist for polar research, Dr. Trevor Hatherton, of Wellington, said in Christchurch yesterday. “There would be no political considerations at all,” he said. Dr. Hatherton said there was already internationalism in uie dependency—l7s,ooo-odd square miles which New Zealand claims as its territory. Extensive New Zealand-Ameri-can co-operation had been the keynote since 1955; and at Scott Base an Italian, Lieutenant Franco Faggioni, had taken "complete charge” of the seismological programme. Vegetables While in Christchurch this week Dr. Hatherton did some vegetable market shopping. “To the boys at Scott Base it was the most important of 20 jobs I had to do,” Dr. Hatherton said, of the arrangements he had made for fresh food to be delievered to New Zealanders who had wintered in Antarctica. The food—three cases of fruit, a case of potatoes (to replace the powder substitute), a case of greens and a quantity of fresh milk—will be flown to McMurdo Sound by the United States Air Force transports when cleared their own priority Cargo. The first consignment will go about mid-October and others will follow regularly at two-week intervals. Third Visit

Dr. Hatherton will make his third trip south during the summer. He went to Antarctica in the 1955-56 season with the United States Navy to search for a base camp site; and made his second visit in January, 1957. when Scott Base was built.

He was one of those who occupied the base for its first winter. About the middle of next month Dr. Hatherton will return to the Antarctic, which he says is “an interesting place” and spend two months there studying gravity. “I am interested in the effect of the icecap On the balance of the continent,” he said.

Bus Accident. —Six persons were killed yesterday in a headon collision between two buses. —Hanau, West Germany, September 26.