WONDERLAND OF N.W. AUSTRALIA.
There was a fair attendance at the Town Hall on Thursday evening to witness the screening of the record of the Douglas Wylie expedition to the remotest parts of North-West Australia. The expedition was undertaken in a 17-ton ketch. Incidents of a thrilling nature were depicted and included the stranding of the exploration party’s schooner in a place of boiling whirlpools, where there is a tide rise and fall of over forty feet; bivouacs ashore, and the hunting of dugong (sea cow), crocodiles and turtles, a wounded whale attacked by hundreds of ferocious sharks, the harpooning of whales, showing the actual harpoon hurtling through the air. The pictures of natives, one of the remaining links of primitive man, were very interesting. Accompanying the Him were Messrs Bernard C. Ryder, F.R.G.S., and William Lingford, members of the expedition, the former lecturing on the tour which gave added interest to the screening.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3809, 23 June 1928, Page 2
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154WONDERLAND OF N.W. AUSTRALIA. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3809, 23 June 1928, Page 2
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