GOLLIWOG MASCOTS.

Mataura Ensign, 23 July 1914, Page 5

GOLLIWOG MASCOTS.

FOR ANTARCTIC EXPLORER.

BT ELBCTBIO TELEORAPH COPYRIGHT. PKB UNITED PRESS ASS(.niA'I'ION. Received-Julv. 23, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, Juiiy 22. Mrs Arthur Popplovye.il gave an "At Home" to Australians at her resilience in ; South Kensington. Sir E. Shackleton was presented with •two golliwog mascots, 'which he will take to the Atttarebic. He sakl t.!va t lie would. ,namo • the highest peak <Ks-c-ovorod Mount Lucas Tooth.

Sir Robert Lucas-Tooth is the head, of (Sue of,the largest brewery firms in Australia, lie lias p'layed some part in New South Wales-politics, and iri 1895 unsuccessfully contested, the Loughborough division of 'Leicestershire in t.ho Conservative interest. He wa-s made l a, baronet i.n 1906. Four years previously lie liad given £IO,fXX) to King Edward's Hospital Fund. ■ Sir Ernest Shackleton' and[i. the, members «f the Imperial Transantarctic Expedition who camo to 'Norway to conduet experiments wi'th equipment and rations for j;he journey .across the Smith Polar continent., returned . Iron* : the of Einse, and the. Hardanger ■Gkcier to-day i stated a Reuter •telegram from' Christiania to 'The Daily Mail' on May 27). Extensive tests have been made of tents, mo'tcr-f.Mges. men,-,hauling sledges, audi food, and valuable results hav-e bsem obtained. The neiv tot, depiened l by Ssr Ernest Shackloton. and MV Marsion (in charge of tl.-e clo thing), proved a complete success, especially.as regards -pitching it ■in 1 a high: wind. It may ; aeem. a. small matter, but wi'lh tine circulation rendered -fl'uggish by the intense wld of the Antarctic the mere raising- of; the arms above the head ,to .pitch any ordinary tent can. only be done at imminent risk of frost-bite.. The new tent can be likened l to a couple of motor-car hoods: joined together and fouled' flat im the -shape of a. largo "D." One man places it flat on the ground, another throws snow on the sijow-cloth, and a third: pull® on: a guy and raises the structure in* a few is'ecomls in- an emergency. In fair weather it can be raised by one man-. Ex'cept- for minor troubles, mostly due to ■vibration, a motavrJedge ran consist-.-•ntly, at times carrying heavy lorfds «ind as many as isix men and- simultaneously towing another sledge also carrying a load: and two passenger,'». ,The engines used were of "the 30-li.p. Anzani aeroplane type, and the,e were geared up 'to a 'large propeller working in the air. The conclusions arrived at may be «umined up as follows: 1. The suitability of the new type. of tent, weighing only 331b and accommo-da-tine six men. 2. The nature and the packing of the provisions, 'the only cnaiige in the .ration shown' to be desirable, being the substitution of an' animal for a vegetable proteon. .'S. 'I lie establifi l»ing of the practicability' of the principle of a ; motor-sledge, drivr.n by an aerial propeller, being capable: of carrying heavy loads at an average- speed of 15 miles an- hour over a fair snow surface. It is understood -thall Sir Ernest Shackleton'.'is going to Paris to examine various aeroplane,engines with a- view to incorporating these in the ronstruction of the motor-sledges to be taken •to the Antarctic,. -