SOON TO JOIN MAWSON
NEW ZEALANDER TESTS EQUIPMENT AUSTRALIANS SAIL fimfroJia.t and N.Z. Press Association J (United Service) Heed. 9.13 a.m. LONDON. Mon. Mr. R. g. Simmers, the New Zealand meteorologist, is sailing on September 9 in the naval survey ship Kellett to test a pilot-balloon theodolite, which is to be used in the Antarctic aboard the Discovery. The apparatus is for measuring the strength and direction of the upper ® lr nurrents. Mr. Simmers will return on September 9. He is going to Capetown on September 20 to join taa Discovery. A Sydney message says enthusiastic parties of friends bade farewell yesterday to Mr. H. O. Fletcher, the assistant zoologist, and Instructortommander H. Moyes, the survey ulcer, who sailed by the liner Nestor o join the Mawson Antarctic expedi-
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 764, 10 September 1929, Page 9
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129SOON TO JOIN MAWSON Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 764, 10 September 1929, Page 9
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