LECTURE ON CAPTAIN SCOTT

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 249, 15 July 1920, Page 3

LECTURE ON CAPTAIN SCOTT

Yesterday afternoon Mr. A. licljrh Ilunt delivered to the pupils of tils Wellington Technical High School a lecturo on Captain Scott's last expedition. The director, Mr. J. H. Howell, introduced tho lijturcr as one of tho moat public-spirited citizens' of Wellington, keenly interested in tho material and tho moral progress of tha community. Ab a stimulus to high endeavour Mr. Leiph Hunt had secured a set of slidon made from the original photographs of Mr. Poynting, official photographer to Captain Scott's expedition, and was very generously Bivinc his time to the recital of its story. The lecturer r.ivc. o, b,ricf account of Arctic and Antarctic, exploration from the earliest lime*; he described tho extraordinary preparations made hv Captain Scott and then nccompnnlcd the Ber•ies of beautiful sliden by a moit interesting narrative, from the time of the departure from lytfelton to Its trade close eleven miles from One-ton Camp. When the photograph of the cairn • that marked tho last resting place of Captain fioott and hio brave companions wan placed on the screen, tho pupils stood in. honour of their memory. At the cloeo of the lecture Mr. Hunt waa warmly applauded.