VAST AMERICAN PROJECT

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 16914, 1 April 1929, Page 11

VAST AMERICAN PROJECT

TO HAKSBSS QOUT STREAM

XKW YQHR, February 11. A«Msc«n ««gw»ews aw disowsswg pia»s— Ta«»* as v*t. bnt «g with Kty-~ior haxwsstns the ««U Stream. so as to bring heat to northern oHines «nd to'stasis*' th» the sottth :■' by wgwWimg tito ic*" fr*** .*" !;«*«•» Akimi into tho .Jferth Atia»tio» and tow ftom the AiitowK Itar tois pcopoto, »t »s sttgsested, the groat nations mast- finajSy «mw«*. 'ln » Uatenent issued yesterday, MrHettext Bjowwj, th* Washingtwt oceano* .: crapber and weather t\>wcasi«r T propose* that ***ts of shatt bo sentinto to* Antaretk each y«t to d.s : iodg* to* great tields of »c*. M tnis '" were done. V betw|*s that t*o weather ; '«f Iwope", India, Asia, Anatialia amt Sonth Afrwa and Aiuentina eonld be t mndatod to a largo eatteat. In* pro^ digicos bm ktwgnlar «ow <rf ie* f*om th« Antarciw barrier, Mr. Browne main- ' tai'ns, » 'the wior cans* of droughts ' in Argentina aw4\>agw»y, in So»th Aftriok. and Australia, and in part of that laitar* of the sonto-wost- monsoon xaina wsnlts in crop failures ana |ajrj*es in India. Modern engineering lk Jlyfc* expense of less than the cost ol : ; ioating if* ftWW* t**e Antawtie conline«» ■i . *t. ■mm times: and in snch qnantities as woald set- it nmving into the Arit :nvt ic '. : winds awl ««Mpwits' in those tears in v- which sontie tiidiaSien would- canse 11 its weltiffll! 1 'i** 1 tbe diistribntion of its* - 'etetfies with .toncScial instead of in- ' jm-iows nmlt«k