PERSONAL NOTES.
Mr Arthur Sawyer, the young wireless operator, who has been keeping a lonely vigil at Macquarrie Island, during the past 22 months, as a part of the Mawson Antarctic expedition., is, at present spending a brief holiday with his patents in Gisborne. Mr Sawyer leaves for Sydney on Wednesday" and may return with the relief party in December. In conversation with a “Times” reporter, Mr Sawyer stated yesterday that the Commonwealth Government intended to keep the Macquarrie station going for .2 •months as from Jtmel last as a meteorological station. Mr Sawyer stated that a peculiar fact about the Ma - , viiie station was ..that whan it ws blowing a gale down there, line weather was recorded in the northern, portion of New Zealand, and when fine weather was experienced in. the . Mac quarries the North Island of New Zealand had to look out for squalls.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3438, 16 September 1913, Page 5
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