MARAMA DELAYED

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1935, Page 5

MARAMA DELAYED

HEAVY GALES IN ’I AS MAN SEA. VISIT OF DR. A. B. WALKOM. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. Four hours late as the result of running into a storm off the coast last night, the Marama arrived at Auckland at 11 o’clock this morning from Sydney. Yesterday afternoon a strong wind blew u and by evening had increased to gale force. Many passengers had to take to tneir beds. No damage was caused to the vessel, although entrance doors and portholes had to be kept tightly shut. A distinguished passenger was Dr. A. B Walkom, secretary of the Linnean Society and honorary general secretary of the Australian ar. I New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science, who has come to New Zealand to arrange for ttie science congress to be held here in 1937. The last occasion on which the congress was held in New Zealand was in 1923 at Wellington. Some 200 Australian scientists and 400 from New Zealand attended. Dr. Walkom, who is a well known geologist, said that the Linnean Society ,was a natural history organisation backed by a large endowment left by the late Sir William MacLeay. The doctor Is only making a lying visit to Auckland and will return to Australia on Friday by the Monterey.