SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION
VALUE 1 TO CIVILISATION. (British Official Wireless.' RUGBY, Oct. 24. Tho Prince of Wales dined 'with famous explorers and travellers last night, when he presided at a, Rotary dinner in London, to the National Geographical Society. Tire. Prince recalled that the society had been associated with most of the great British exploration® of the past century. He. said the more fortunate ones amongst them, who had been in most part, of the world on various explorations, -scientific, sporting or photographic, had had an, opportunity of straying off the beaten track for a few days or weeks, and had been able to understand what the great explorers of the past had to endure. He took his hat off to them.
Exploration had great practical value and there had been a great region that Britishers an'd also foreign countries had been able to -develop and provide opportunities for people wlip would not. have had them if the explorers had staved at home.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 27 October 1930, Page 2
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