ADMIRALTY SURVEY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 156, 3 June 1937, Page 2

ADMIRALTY SURVEY.

COASTLINE OF DOMINION. START IN NEAR FUTURE. AUCKLAND, May 31. The long-awaited survey and charting of the New Zealand coastline will lie begun in the near future by the Admiralty survey ship Endeavour, which is expected to arrive at Auckland about the middle of June. The Endeavour, which is commanded by Captain Wyatt, It.N., left England at the end of February, and is at present at Newcastle, Australia. She is due to leave for the Dominion shortly, and at least for the earlier part of her stay in New Zealand waters she will be based at Auckland. Master mariners and other experts have held for years that a new survey of the Dominion’s coastline is long overdue. The Marine Department has concurred in this view, but speciallyequipped ships are required for the work, which is of a highly-specialised and technical nature. As a result, it was necessary to wait until one of the Admiralty survey ships was available. Under an arrangement made by the New ' Zealand Government with the Admiralty, the British Government will provide the Endeavour complete and will bear all ■ expenses in connection with the pay and maintenance of officers and ratings, leaving the Dominion authorities to provide fuel and the cost of docking and refitting. The New Zealand Government has already expressed appreciation of the very generous manner in which Great Britain has met tho needs of the Dominion in a matter of great importance to a maritime country. The complete survey of the Now Zealand coastline and outlying islands is expected to take five years or longer. Much, of course, depends on the conditions encountered on tho surveys.©