FOR ANTARCTICA.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XL, Issue 13170, 2 September 1913, Page 9

FOR ANTARCTICA.

MONEY" FOR DR. MAWSON. FREMANTLE, August 21. Among the passengers on board the R.M.S. Orontes was Captain J. K. Davis, commander of the Aurora. He has returned alter a search through England for further capital for the Mawson expedition.

"I have been very successful," said Captain Davis. "In fact, I have collected £3000 out of the £10,000 required for scientific research, and I am confident that the rest of the money will be collected m Australia. Surely after Dr Mawson has been imprisoned m the Antarctic for two years, and after he has done so much to advertise Australia as the result of his investigations, Australians are not going to let him come out of the ice with a great debt on his shoulders. The investigations of Dr Mawson have attracted the 'favorable attention of the civilised world. His meteorological and magnetic findings have been regarded as invaluable. "I hope the Victorian Government will dock the Aurora, as promised," continued the captain. "If they do I will leave this vessel at Melbourne, go over to Hobart, and bring the Aurora back te Melbourne. I anticipate being able to pick up Dr Mawson and his party at the main base at Adelio Land about the beginning of December, which is about the Antarctic's midsummer. It would be impossible m the winter. No ship, no matter how she was built, could stand a wind that blew at the rate of 200 miles an hour. When you know that 75 miles an hour is a full hurricane you can realise that 200 miles an bom would mean two hurricanes rolled into one." Captain Davis said that when m England he heard that a number of provisions had been found hidden m Captain Scott's cabin under a loose board. He said this had probably been put there by a previous ''expedition. The Terra Nova had been used for many exploratory purposes.