POLAR EXPEDITION.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14238, 2 July 1910, Page 7

POLAR EXPEDITION.

CAPTAIN SCOTT'S EXPEDITION. Cabled messages published from tilih! Lo lime convey information ie-tli-e preliminaries of Captain boon's Antarctic expedition, and these indicated lhat so iar everything has gone and ia going smoothly. Mr j. J. ivinsey, of Christchurch, who was cUisely associated with the arrange, meats in Netv Zealand for the previous expeditions, is playing ti.e same part in connection with the present one, and is playing it well. Mr KmBey informed a "Lyttelton Times" representative on • Wednesday, that he Lad received most generous promises from firms and persons who were in a. position to "afford help in. the wav of givi nt; stores', in coal and food stuffs -—preserved meats, butter' and cheese, pr cserved milk, biscuits, chocolates, ®te., lor the men, and of oats,, chaff and hny for the ponies. Those offers have been made spontaneously, and from all parts of New Zealand. The Union S.S. Company, for instance, give 1.00 tons of coal, and other shipping companies, and John Mill and Co., it is expected will supply as much more as will fill up the Terra Nova's bunkers and coal holds. Coal will b© an important item, because thero will be at least two winter parties to be kept warm. It may be taken for granted that in one way or other all the stores required will be obtained, though some iii.'i.v have to be )>oiiglit to complete the equipment. There remains, however, some balance <,.f cash required for payment for the >orviees of tho men and other matters, and tho opportunity therefore remains for all who, take an interest in 1 his notable expedition, to take part m it also by making a donation to the irnds. li' however it is more con/viicnt to make a donation in kind —of suitable kind—it will of coarse be gladly aocepted. Mr J." P. Newman, *ho was in Christcbui-c.il this veek. snw Mr Rinsey, and had a that with him about the expedition, in 'vhich Mr I •'aey takes an enthusiastio interest, probably, as he says, because }:>s father was a membef of one ■ f the petitions that went in i.-tarch of Sir John Franklin, and gained the white ribbon and Arctic medal. One of the great delights of his boyhood was to read over and over again his father's journal of the expedition. Besides this, he was educated at a naval school, and was for some years a master at the school of which Sir Ernest Shackleton is an "old boy." Mr Newman found Mr Kinsey taking a large view of the mattor of aid for the expedition from New Zealand, desiring that it should be from New Zealand, and not from Christ church or Canterbury, though he had 110 doubt that if e had cared to do £o lie could have obtained •11 that is required in Christchurch. and the neighbourhood. rfe was pleased that Mr Craigie had interested himself in the matter, as Mayor of Timaru, and as a means of gaining a keener interest in the expedition lie hoped that South Canterbury people would show that they have a. sympathetic interest in it now, by helping to mnke up the equipment and complete the financing of the expedition. It is not, Mr Kinsey holds, a case for canvassing but for spontaneous offers, because it is a British expedition to secure an honour that any nation

would be proud of, and one ;i iat will ; be gained ere long, if not by the British, then by some other nation. Opportunity is ottered to the people of South Canterbury to help the [expedition, by gifts in kind, or |jinferably in cash, and besides the Town I Clerk, already notified as the receiv ei i of donations, we are authorised to I state that the President of the Chamj ber of Commerce, Mr G .S. Cray, and jMr J. P. Newman, manager C.f.C.A. will al& receive and acknowledge donations.