DUKE OF GLOUCESTER

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19352, 4 September 1934, Page 6

DUKE OF GLOUCESTER

DEPARTURE FROM LONDON. PRIVATE AND INFORMAL. A MISSION TO CEYLON. (Gmchl Wireless.) (Received Sept. 2.30 p.m.) . . RUGBY, Sept. 3. The departure. . .of the Duke of Gloucester to-morr.o.w. on his official visit to Australia .will .he 'private and informal, hut representatives! of the Dominions Office, including Mr J. H. Thomas (Secretary for the Dominions) and Mr Stanley Bruce (Tligli Commissioner for Australia) will attend the aerodrome where the Duke Will take off on the first stage of the journey' to Marseille's, where he will join The cruiser ' Sussex on his way Lo Australia. The Duke will call at Colombo (Ceylon) where -he will hand over the throne of the Kings of 'Kandy, which has been kept at Windsor Castle since 1815, when in response to appeals from Ceylon the King of Kandy was dethroned. RAND WICK RACE MEETING. DUKE OF GLOUCESTER PLATE. £2OOO AND A £IOO CUP. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Sept. 4, 2.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, Sept. 4. The principal race at the.A.J.C. Randwick meeting to he held on November 22 in honour of the'Duke of Gloucester’s visit will (be the Duke of Gloucester's Plate worth £2OOO sterling ■and £IOO gold cup. The conditions of the race will be almost identical with those -of -the King's Cup. OFF TO ANTARCTICA. RYMILL EXPEDITION. AN IMPORTANT ENTERPRISE. LEAVE IN A FEW DAYS. (Omciai Wireless.) (Received Sept. 4, 2.30 p.m.) RUGBY, Sept. 3. Mr John Rymill and other members of the Antarctic expedition will leave London within the next few days in the schooner Penola, which is now loading in London docks for Falkland Islands, for which an advance party has already left. The expedition intends to make a sledge journey of 1000 miles or more across an entirely unknown region in Graham Land, which is a dependency of the Falklands.

The expedition generally is considered the most important British enterprise in the Antarctic since Sir E. Shackleton’s ill-fated attempt to cross the Continent nearly 20 years ago. The British Government made a grant io Mr Rymill of £20,000 from a research development fund, for tlie Falkland Islands, and ordered the Discovery 11. to help in establishing tlie expedition’s base. The Royal Geographical Society has pul its resources at the service of tlie expedition, and has contributed lo its funds, as lias also the City of London. Tlie Prince of Wales is patron of the undertaking.

Mr Rymill, the leader, and several of his companions have had wide experience in Polar travel.