VALUABLE RESULTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16806, 20 November 1928, Page 11

VALUABLE RESULTS

ANTAECTIC EXPEDITIONS j SIR D, MAWSON'S VIEWS fPr. r Pross Association.! WULLINtiTON, this day. Sir Douglas Mawson arrived fi'om Sydney this morning. While in England he made investigations with regard |n securing a suitable ship and e<|uipniont for carrying on further coastal sui cays in Ihe region to the I soiil li of Au-t .alia, ; ; mailer he hojies to see finalised during {lie coining year. Discussing the various Antarctic expeditions, he said'there was no quosI ion l lint ('oniniander Byrd 's expedil ion might be expected to return with an immense amount of' valuable information relating to the Ross Sea area. Vary valuable results should accrue because of the splendid equipment and good management evident. Sir Hubert Wilkins' exped'ition, oil the other hand, was limited in personnel and equipment, and, taking with this the limitation of base, it was not likely , -.... accumulate a great deal of information of scientific value, although it might be able to chart some of the unknown coastlines. BYRD EXPEDITION MOVEMENTS OF SHIPS (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. ~ li is doubtful if the Eleanor Boiling, one of fiie ships of the Byrd Antarctic expedition, will get away until to-mor-row morning. After loading planes at) Wellington, she will sail for the coast F to pielc v,;> Ihe sailer. City of New S York, and tow her to Buriodin. ( Captain Brown, of the Kleaoor 80l- \ ling, and Captain Melville, of the City of New York, hold special appointments as postal clerks for U.S.A. in the Antarctic. A special stamp 4in. by 2in. will accompany the New Zealand stamp. It shows a ship' caught in the ice floes with the planes living over her. Captain MeKinlay, aerial surveyor, will visit Chiistchurch to arrange with ~ the Wigrai,\ aerodrome for a flight over "j the plains to test bis survey cameras. . .