MOTED EXPLORER

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11404, 3 January 1931, Page 4

MOTED EXPLORER

> DISCOVERY-- OF,. ARTHUR’S r - PASS.. . ... KNIGHTHOOD FOR EXPLORER.

(Cfnecial TV The Times). (Spe AUCKLAND, Jan. 2 The knighthood conferred on Air . nmllev; Dobson recalls one of Arthur Dudley, aw difflC nlt exnffiitfili Um- history- of New Zealand pjoits m thfi discovery of Art Si’s Pas»-the famous passage over th lt'N?h?'ih n the P latteV part of 1863 rtnt Sir Arthur undertook p contract [vith the C-anterhury Provincial GovCrnrnentrto survey from til chartered the little southwards He c gtoreß and SCh iZent fro y m Nelson. The bessel Zk five stormy weeks to travc, the thort distance,’and. the voyage ended with the schooner s wreck on tho Cev bar. All hands got on shore safely and ■ salvaged their goods Then Sir -Arthur commenced his task After several months .of surviving,'he returned to Christchurch, where Air Cass, chief surveyor,, was If leased with his work that he Seed him before going back to the -West Coast to explore the mountamous region between Waimakann and the rivers running into. Vestlafid to ascertain whether anv available pa«fees between east and west existed m that part of the country. Sir Arthur set out-on Alarch 3. 1864 and, a few days, later, discoverId the pass. since .known as Arthurs Pass. ’ ' • - -