PROFESSOR DAVID.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 473, 3 April 1909, Page 5

PROFESSOR DAVID.

LOCATION OF THE MAGNETIC POLE. (OY TEI.EOttAFH PRESS ASSOCIATIaN-col'riliaitr.) Sydnoy, April 2. Tho Lord Mayor (Mr. Alien: Taylor)! presided over a groat citizens' meeting to welcome Professor David, who, with Mr. Mftwson (physicist) and Dr. Mackay, constituted the party that discovered the Magnetic Polo. Tlio doors of tlio ,'lown Hall wero closed early to prevent overcrowding. By an oversight Professor David was locked out, and was unable to gain an entranco for half an hour. The Federal Attorney-General (Mr. TV. M. Hughes) only succeeded in forcing his way through on tho hack of an alderman. Hundreds wore unable to gain admission. Profossor David, in tho courso of a spoech, said it had been almost as difficult to get into the gathering as it was to work a way up to tlw Magnetic Pole. In this connection ho wished to say with great emphasis that the Magnetic Polo was not discovered and not located by him, but by Mr. Mawson.

(BY TFXEGIUPH— PRESS ASSOCIATION".) t • i . „ , Chrlotohuroh, April 2. Lieutenant Shackleton received tho following cablegram this afternoon from tlio Loid Major of Sydney:—"A crowded meeting of citizcnsm the Town Hall, a worn bled in honour of Professor David, sends heartv congratulations to yourself and your bravo' comsafo return from your heroic march south, and on tho splonifid achievements in honour of tho British Empire."