INSIDE AUSTRALIA.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 October 1924, Page 15

INSIDE AUSTRALIA.

$ BIG ENGLISH EXPEDITION. CATERPILLAR MOTORS. LONDON, Oct. 3. The expedition to explore NorthWestern Australia next-'"year, which Mr. Michael Terry, E.8.G.5., is organising, will traverse the country, and will be carried out with caterpillar motors. The. expedition will include experts to report on gold mining and cottongrowing possibilities. They will broadcast nightly wireless bulletins. In a. lecture to the Overseas League in London in April last, Mr. Terry described the motor trip which he made across unknown Australia. He exhibited pictures of Northern Australia, showing it to be a fertile country, waiting only the labour of white men. Again, in May, during a lecture to the Royal Geographical Society in London. he spoke enthusiastically in praise of this area, declaring that the fertility of the soil and the excellence of the climate rendered it an ideal spot for a large population. He found Central Australia cooler and less trying than Western Queensland, be said, and it needed only to obtain a railway to prosper by leaps and Bounds, and become better known" than the Congo. At that time he was endeavouring to secure English backing for the coming expedition into North-west Australia. Mr. Terry was made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in June, in recognition of his trans-Australian expedition. The caterpillar motor car has already conquered the Sahara.. Two years ago special caterpillar Citroens crawled along the caravan routes from French Algiers to Tinilmctoo.