NORTHERN TERRITORY

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 126, 1 May 1925, Page 10

NORTHERN TERRITORY

PLANS BY EXPLORERS. « LONDON, April 29. Mr Terry and h : is colleagues, Messrs If. A. Prescott, topographical survey expert, and M. Redknap, cinematographer, were guests at a luncheon giyen by a motor firm who are providing cars for the expedition to the Northern Territory (Australia). The chairman, Mr Sydney Guy, proposed the toast of the .expedition. Ho said that it was an All British project and woulcl traverse 3000 miles, whereof 500 would bo across unknown territory. Ho hoped that the expedition would discpver gold and oil. Mr Terry, responding, emphasised the difference between what the geography book teaches ftbpufc North Australia and the conditions actually found. , The socalled desert bad proved so elusive that he vyas determined to find it or put it off the map altogether. This was a propaganda expedition, with the object of showing what North Australia really is. He was confident that it would prove a fertile country capable of raising a whjte population, There were other countries near at hand who could make greater use .thereof. Australia had got to get a move on. Mr Terry remarked that in addition to Messrs Prescott and Iledknaps, an English M.P. would accompany the expedition and two others would be picked up jn Australia. Two caterpillar cars and a motor cycle would go wifh the expedition. Mr Colebatch welcomed -the expedition, which, ho stated, would result in the removal of a good many wrong impressions. He hoped that it would provide more rapid and cheaper transport for developing the unoccupied north.—A. and N.Z. cable.