WILKINS' EXPEDITION.
HELP FROM EMPIRE SOUGHT. PLANS FOR OPENING WORK. Australian Press Association—United Service LONDON, May 8. A luncheon was tendered to Sir Hubert Wilkins at the Savoy Hotel. In the course of a speech the explorer said he had been in an embarrassing position, as practically all his aeroplanes, money arid personnel were provided from America. Whether he. would be able to complete his Antarctic work next year in the interests of science and tho British Empire depended on the support he received from the Empire.
Sir Hubert said the beginning of tho meteorological work should be mads in 1930. He would put men on the ice south of New Zealand and Cape Horn, and they would transmit by wireless invaluable information concerning tho weather.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20251, 10 May 1929, Page 11
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