UNCHARTED ROCKS.
CAUSE OF MANY WRECKS. DANGERS ON AUSTRALIAN COAST. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received July 8, 8.50 a.m. SYDNEY, July 8. In the course of a lecture the president of the Royal Society stated that, according to a report of the Commonwealth Navigation Board, one-third of the Australian coast remained uncharted in the modern sense of the term. Portion of the north coastal chartings had been but roughly delineated as they were left 110 years agb by lire explorer Flinders. The president added that, had the work been done twenty years ago it would have trebly repaid itself by the prevention of wrecks on uncharted rocks during that period.—Press Association.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 444, 8 July 1922, Page 5
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110UNCHARTED ROCKS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 444, 8 July 1922, Page 5
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