RESEARCH WORK IN ANTARCTICA

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29068, 3 December 1959, Page 8

RESEARCH WORK IN ANTARCTICA

New Zealand’s Part At Symposium (New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, December 2. New Zealand played a major part in the Antarctic symposium at Buenos Aires, according to Dr. K. E. Bullen, leader of the Australian delegation to the conference, who arrived in Auckland by air today. Dr. Bullen, who is a New Zealander, is a professor of applied mathematics at Sydney University and a world authority on seismology. He will spend five days in Auckland visting his parents before returning to Sydney. During the Buenos Aires conference, 180 papers were read, said Dr. Bullen an geophysical, medical, physological and biological matters investigated in the last three years’ work in the Antarctic, with special reference to the International Geophysical Year programme were discussed. Dr. Bullen paid special attention to the seismological findings where the New Zealand, Russian and American teams working in the Antarctic had uncovered valuable information. The two New Zealand representatives at the conference, Dr, T. Hatherton and Mr K. J. Salmon, had made a fine impression, he said.