ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.
Sydney, Dec. 7. Lieutenant Shackelton lectured to a crowded audience in the Town Hall on the objects of this Antarctic expedition. He appealed for funds, and stated that previous to coming to Australia he saw some fifty millionaires, and impressed fhem not only with the value of the expedition, but the need to maintain national prestige, and they had turned a deaf ear. Professor Anderson Stuart announced that the real rrason for the appeal for funds was the recent panic in Wall Street. The cost of the expedition would be to /5000. At the conclusion of the lecture a committee was formed, with Sir Frederick Darley, Lieutenant Governor of the State, as chairman, to raise the -needed by Lieutenant Shackelton to complete a magnetic survey of the Southern Seas.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 10 December 1907, Page 3
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131ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3778, 10 December 1907, Page 3
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