ROUND AUSTRALIA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19099, 21 August 1936, Page 3

ROUND AUSTRALIA

SURVEY PARTY PREPARES EARLY DEPARTURE SYDNEY, Aug. S. Arrangements are well in hand for the departure from Sydney on Tuesday next of the X..V..M. A.-l ’on I iae rinindAuslralia survey party. The object is In make a preliminary survey of the route to be followed in the proposed i mind A ust ra lia mol or car contest, lo be heiil iii assoc in I ion with Australia’s I "huh anniversary celebrations. The personnel of Hie party wili be Mr. Norman 1.. (/'Wizard”) .Smith, in charge of the survey; Mr. C. Brice ( 'nnigrave, Sydney Morning Herald representative; Mr. (’has. Gordon,

moloj- engineer; and Mr. John Fletcher. (’iiiesoiind newsreel camera-

man, w!m will travel in two Routine 'coupe cars. Special arrangements have been made in the provision of exira. tanks, so t Hat sullicient petrol m ;, . v be carried lo give tin* cars a radius o| prncfu-ullv one thousand

Ii is niiti'-ipnlod (lint, via Melbourne and Adelaide, the long journey'across (he head -ol I lie Great Australian Bigin will occupy approximately three days, and ii is anticipated that Forth will be reached on August IS instant.