TO THE ANTARCTIC.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10764, 11 May 1911, Page 4

TO THE ANTARCTIC.

[By ElectiTic Telegraph—Copyright.

(Per Press Association.) Received May 11, at 8.5 a.m. Melbourne, May 'lO

..The Federal Cabinet lias decided that the request to giant £20,000 to Dr Mawson's expedition must be left to Parliament to decide. London, May 10. ( Sir E. Shackleton has been promised in response to his appeal valuable supplies for Dr Mawson's equipment. A "West Australian contributor has given £IOOO and Madame Melba £IOO, making Dr Mawson's fund £9OOO. Lieut. Hugh Watkips, of the Essex Regiment, is to be pilot on Mawson's monoplane, which is being manufactured by'Vickers, Son and Maxim. It will have a screen to protect the pilot and passengers from cold. , The monoplane will be employed.in mapping and surveying. It will take at the southernmost depot sufficient petrol for a single flight to the Pole and return to the depot, namely, 250 miles.