ENDEAVOUR’S WORK

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32082, 2 September 1969, Page 11

ENDEAVOUR’S WORK

Start Made By Scientists

(Special Crspdt. N.Z.T.A.)

ABOARD H.M.N.Z.S. ENDEAVOUR. The scientific programme of the Royal Society of New Zealand’s Cook bicentenary expedition began at 1.30 p.m. on Thursday just past Cape Colville, when a marine magnetometer was streamed and a magnetic survey started by Mr L. Carrington, of Upper Hutt At the same time the first of a series of 13 plankton samplings, supervised by Mr J. V- Eade, of Lower Hutt, who is deputy leader of the scientific team, was taken. The expedition sailed from Devonport naval base on Thursday with a ship's company of 77. six scientists, and five tons of assorted scientific equipment Sixteen large butterfly nets were erected on the ship’s masts to collect airborne insects. Measurements of the ionosphere's total electron content was started by Dr G. Freddy, of Wellington, who wtil conduct a series of four experiments, including the detection of signals from a satellite. The equipment in use was designed by the Auckland Radio Research Centre, which Is believed to be the only remaining non-American recipient of N.A.S.A funds: