PROFESSOR DAVID'S WELCOME.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11817, 2 April 1909, Page 5

PROFESSOR DAVID'S WELCOME.

•» URKAT MEETING IN SYDNEY. ICXPLORIvR CROWDED OUT. •JIYJSS CREDIT TO MR MAWSON. HARMFUL INFECT OF ALCOHOL. (Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright) (Received April 2. 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, April 2. , A great citizens' meeting was held to welcome Professor David. The doors of the Town Hall Were closed early to prevent overcrowding. Professor David was locked out. Ho was- 1 -finable 'to gain 'entrance for half an hoifr, and the Federal Attorney-Geneval only forced his way through on tlie* back of an alderman. Hundreds were uriabla to gain admission. ' '-;'"' '-. •*.'• Professor Davidy. m tlie; . driurse of a speech, saidi it Wa:^ riltrib^V as difficult to s^et into the gathering: afe'it was to work their way to'tiie joiagnetic; pole. In this connection lie"Msft^a' to «ay, with great emphasis, that the iriftghetic pole was not discovered -and -ftsfe not located by him, but by Mv Mawspn. He laid stres^ on' the- fact that during tho four months' journey the -party had not on© drop 1 -of ' ahJphbl. On one boca^ sion, .-a birthday - fee^tebration, they had just a little \fririb?ljj&' iTbund their resistance to the $pjd so they dtropped the". al^QhollA