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VISITOR FROM AUSTRALIA [by TELEGBArn—riIF.SS association] INVERCARGILL, Tuesday " This is the first time I have been in the South Island since 1 returned to New Zealand in the Terra Nova with Scott's Antarctic Expedition," said Dr. R. E. Priestley, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, who was n passenger from Melbourne in the Marama. " 1 am on my way to attend the Congress of Universities of the Empire to be held at Cambridge in July, and during my stay in the Dominion 1 hope to visit the four universities," he added. Dr. Priestley has been n member of two South Polar expeditions. 1908 he proceeded to the Antarctic in the Nimrod with the Shackleton Expedition and in 1910 he returned South with the British Antarctic Expedition led by Captain Scott,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22353, 26 February 1936, Page 14
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