TO THE ANTARCTIC.
EQUIPMENT AND FUNDS. Bj TeleEraph—Press Association—Gooyrlcht London, May 25. The crow of Captain,, Scott's.,Antarc?'. tic exploration ship Terra Nova wil] number sixty, and will include three champion boxers belonging to the Navy. . The vessel will.call at Madeira, the Cape, and Australia, and will then remain four weeks in Now Zealand. Forty thousand sterling has practically been collected.. Captain Scott has tested the motorsledges to be used by tie expedition. Hβ expects to travel from ten to fifteen.milcß daily.' x .. NO AUSTRALIAN SUBSIDY THIS TIME., Melbourne, May 25. Tho Federal Government has declined to accedo to Captain Scott's request to grant ,£IOOO towards the expenses' of hi 3 South Pole expedition. Mr. Bachelor, Minister for External Affairs, states that as the. Imperial Government has contributed <£20,000 to the expedition, and as Lieut, (now Sir Ernest) Shackleton did not receive help from the Imperial Government, the conditions of Captain Scott's expedition are not tho same as those of the Shackleton expedition (which the Commonwealth Government subsidised). *
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 827, 27 May 1910, Page 7
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167TO THE ANTARCTIC. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 827, 27 May 1910, Page 7
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