ANTARCTIC TEAM

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28897, 18 May 1959, Page 7

ANTARCTIC TEAM

Names Not Yet Announced Negotiations with the Ross Dependency Research Committee would have to be completed before the New Zealand Alpine Club Antarctic expedition, team could be named, the president of the club (Mr R. D. Dick) said yesterday afternoon. It had been expected that the team,-Would be named yesterday after a meeting on Saturday of the club’s Antarctic sub-com-mittee. The club plans to send an eightman team to Antarctica in November to climb mountains in the Royal Society Range during the summer months. Mr Dick said: "The team has not yet been named. There is a large number of names, but negotiations with the Government will have to be complete before the team is finally named.” He said the Ross Dependency Research Committee had to advise the Minister in charge of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (Mr Holloway) on what action to take “The delay has been in getting a satisfactory reply from the Government.” The team would go from Scott latter part of November and some of its equipment has to be got from Britain.” Mr Dick said that in Antarctica the team would “work in the Royal Society Range about fifty miles from McMurdo Sound.” “The team would go from Scott Base to Butter Point and then on to the range.