IN QUEST OF TREASURE.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16212, 24 August 1923, Page 8

IN QUEST OF TREASURE.

PACT FIU AI) V ENTU RE R H

RESEARCH AND ROMANCE

LONDON, Aug. 11.—The prospect oi treasure-hunting and adventure- *-. i i>« exotic surroundings id' tF.c- h lias enrolled an army of opplii.ani: <!••• i ous of taking part in the e\i r bi>.r which is being organised bv ibv Research Association.

■ The St. George, the vessel oLar/eird for the expedition), is expected to.?..ii

from Plymouth on October 10. resides scientific investigations, tbe expedition w also intended to search for treasure at Cocos Island and the Ga'aragos. and t locale the mysterious island of Tuanaki, which is believed to exist) somewhere to .tile south-east of Raratonga.

Tlie headquarters of the expedition'are being _ besieged by shoals of amateur yachtsmen, girl stenographers, ’ and all sorts and conditions of would-be advene turers with visions of “pieces of eight” and dead men's chests floating before their eves.

Apparently these glistening dreams are shared bv the .staff of the Research Assnnation, for everv day one may see them at 1 the British Museum, surrounded bv nilcn of m-istv. records, searching eagerly for information as, to a grenti treasure said to have boon buried at Cocos after tbe sack of Lima, as well as another m discovered hoard hidden in the Galapagos.

The exnedifion. lmaded by Commander Blair, consists of 36 ex-service men. a wireless onerator, a. seanlane and its riiots, and eight s—'entisfs, inelndin nr M". James Homell, director of Fisheries a'i Madras: Mr. P. Johnson, of T.ondon University College, and Miss T*. Cheeseman. curator of the insects department at the London Zoo.

The St. George will visit Easier Island. Pitoairn Island, the Gambler Tslands, Rano.. Australia.. Cook Islands Tahiti, Rannirca. and the Marquesas fo 1 ’ tho purposes of making films and nolle" ting wild animals, birds, butterflies and other sngeimentss. The men passeji, gers are paving £7OO pach.