TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
New Zealand Party For Phoenix Islands Bv Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, May 13. Arrangements are bejng made for a party of New Zealand astronomers to visit the Phoenix Islands, in the Pacific Ocean next year for the purpose of observing the total solar eclipse which will occur on June 8, 1937, and which should bo favourably seen from that portion of the Pacific. The organiser of the expedition, Mr. C. B. Michie, of Kaitaia, was a member of the New Zealand solar eclipse expedition to Niuafoou (Tin Can) Lsland in 1930, and although the complete ,personnel of the party of six has yet to be arranged, Mr. Michie expects to be accompanied by several of the astronomers who took part in that expedition. Although the 1930 eclipse expedition was financed by public subscription, supplemented by a large donation from the New Zealand Astronomical Society, theßirojected expedition will be under the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Mr. Michie lias been appointed lender.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 194, 14 May 1936, Page 5
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