FOR PICTURES, NOT THE POLE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 300, 15 September 1936, Page 8

FOR PICTURES, NOT THE POLE

Empire Expedition To Antarctic Dominion Special Service. Auckland, September 14. Having already taken part In five expeditions to thq Antarctic, Captain Frank Hurley, the well-known Australian photographer, Is planning to go there again next year if the negotiation for the sending of a British Empire photographic expedition mature. Captain Hurley arrived at Auckland by the Niagara from Sydney In order to make a commercial film of some. New Zealand forests. Two of Captain Hurley’s expeditions to the Antarctic were made with Sir Ernest Shackleton and three with Sir Douglas Mawson. When with Mawson’s expedition of 1911-14 he was one of the party which sledged to the south magnetic pol\ ’ During the great war he was official photographer with the Australian Imperial Forces and later he did much exploring and photographing in New Guinea and Central Australia. At present he Is associated with Clnesound productions.

The expedition with which Captain Hurley is hoping to go to the Antarctic ie attempting, it was stated recently, to purchase the famous research ship Discovery. If satisfactory negotiations for the dispatch of the expedition are completed, Commander F. A. Worsley, who was captain of the Endurance in Shackleton’s expedition of 1914, is to be captain.