When the war broke out, Mr. Guy Dawson was in the Argentine. Volunteering in England, he reached the front in France last April. Mr. Oswald Dawson was in Queensland, but, the war calling, he eventually left England for the front in France last September. The two are brothers, both Australians, sons of a N.S.W. stock inspector. They have met at the front, and aire stationed near each other.
A map of the visible universe, upon which the astronomers of the world have been working for 25 years, is almost complete. It will contain every star which can be found by the most powerful telescope. The number will be not less than 100,000,000. Some of the stars which will be represented have never been seen by the eye of man, and probably never will be seen. Thdy are caught and recorded by the photographic plate, which is more sensitive to light t-han the retina of the human eye.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 39, 16 February 1916, Page 7
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