MAWSON EXPEDITION

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 51, 24 November 1930, Page 11

MAWSON EXPEDITION

Second Antarctic Voyage VISIT TO DOMINION LATER On behalf of the New Zealand branch of the English-Speaking Union, the chairman, Mr. A. Leigh Hunt, recently tendered to Sir Douglas Mawson, commander of the Antarctic Research expedition, good wishes for the success of the expedition’s second voyage to the Antarctic, and expressed the hope that the union might have the pleasu. - of entertaining Sir Douglas and members of the expedition should a call be made at Wellington on the return journey. To this message the following reply has been received by Mr. Hunt from Sir Douglas Mawson, Adelaide, Victoria; — “On the eve of departure to Hobart to join the Discovery for our second and linal cruise in the Antarctic, I write to thank you kindly for your nice message, wishing us God speed on the forthcoming adventure. “It is unlikely that the Discovery will put in to New Zealand during the progress of this summer cruise, for we are making Macquarie Island direct from Hobart and will then proceed south, but after return to Australia at the end of summer the Discovery is more than likely to travel to the Falkland Islands by way of New Zealand, and under such circumstances would certainly call at Wellington. “We shall be operating for a little while in New Zealand Antarctic territory in the neighbourhood of the Ualleny Islands. Later in the season the Discovery will be turned to the west, and explorations will be conducted at least as far as the 90th meridian of East Longitude. “Tb oughout the cruise we shall be mindful of the good wishes of the New Zealand branch of the English-Speak-ing Union."