THE DISCOVERIES OF THE FUTURE.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1928, Page 8

THE DISCOVERIES OF THE FUTURE.

“\\V must not think that the period of explorations and discoveries is finished. The Artie and Antarctic rc'liiire further methodical exploration and need new martyrs. The centre o* Asia and equatorial Africa have yet to t;ive the world their resources. The atmosphere, now a. new route of communication. needs new investigation' and farther studies, lint the most important thing to-day for the economist, the politician, and the business man is a complete cartographical knowledge oT the known world, the explanatory illustration of the territories with in reach of human expansion, and the • nmnarative study ol martially known knowledge of the earth is no longer sufficient. Man needs also an intensive knowledge of it. Modern technique has placed at man's disposal (he swiftest means of communication Great distances to-day can he covered in a short time. If to this consideration we add the fact that the world’* population is rapidly increasing and needs new resources we see how clearly paved is the way to geographical studies which have to assume—and are. indeed, assuming—particular ethnical characteristics, as well as political and economic ones.”---Nicola Vaeehelli. president of the Internatiinal (leoirraphieal l liion. speaking at Cambridge.