STUDYING GEOGRAPHY
PARTY ARRIVES. FROM
SYDNEY
With the object of obtaining firsts hand knowledge of many geographical features, which New, Zealand possesses, a party composed of students and members of the staff, of the University of Sydney, numbering nine, and led by Professor Macdonal.d-Hoimes, Professor of Geography at the University of Sydney, arrived by the Marama to-day. With the party is Professor W. S. Dawson, Professor- of Psychiatry. In conversation with a /'Post" rer porter, Professor Macdonald-Holmes, who has been in Australia three years and who is the only, professor of geography -in the Commonwealth, stressed the value of New Zealand as a field for geographical study. "We read abdut glaciers and fiords," he remarked, "but there are none in Australia." ,
The party leaves to-night <for the South, and is to visit Mount Cook and Queenstown, walk over the Milford track, and then return North to visit Rotorua and the Waitomo Caves. They expect to be in 'the Dominion for a month.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 1, 3 January 1933, Page 8
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162STUDYING GEOGRAPHY Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 1, 3 January 1933, Page 8
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