ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.
CAPTAIN SCOTT’S EXPEDITION.
United Press Association —Copyright (Received September 14, 9.35 p.m.) LONDON, .Sept. 14. Captain Soott expects to return to England in 1912, Lieutenant Evans, the navigating officer of the two relief expeditions, will be his second in command. Many members of the scientific staff and crew of the 1901 expedition accompany Captain Scott. His four 1 niotor sledges are sufficiently long to bridge over dangerous crevasses- Largo sums of motley have already been promised to Captain Soott for his. expedition.
Captain Scott, interviewed, said that £40,000 was the minimum amount required. He felt certain that the overseas Dominions, particularly Australia and New Zealand, would furnish a good sum towards the cost of the expedition, as they would be well represented on the staff. He mentioned the prospect of utilising ethergraphs between the ship and the shore, and said that much depended, as .regards the completeness of the entire equipment of the expedition, on a liberal and quick response to ■his appeal for funds. He hoped to enter the ice about the end of December. ...
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2607, 15 September 1909, Page 5
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178ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2607, 15 September 1909, Page 5
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