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Amundsen’s Expedition
(From “The Dominion,” October 4, 1910.) Captain Amundsen writes to London from Madeira stating that the exploring ship Frara is bound on a secret Antarctic expedition. She will reach Buenos Aires in February, and no news will be received from her ihen until Alarch, 1912, when the Fram will return to San Francisco and prepare for a drift over the >*ortn Po'e-
Signor Marconi claims to have established the. feasibility of wireless communication between Europe and South America. He has transmitted wireless messages 6000 miles without a relay station.
The tenders that are being calle! for the erection of the three seveu-story warehouses 'for Alessrs. Arthur Yates and Company, the well-known seedsmen, mark an epoch in the history of buildings in Auckland. In these buildings the method which is universal in America in constructing the famous skyscrapers will be employed for the first time in Auckland. In this method steel girders and stanchions are the main supnort. and the wallsare simply shells.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 5, 1 October 1935, Page 8
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16725 YEARS AGO Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 5, 1 October 1935, Page 8
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