FAMOUS SCIENTIST.
Sir Douglas Mawson Visits New Zealand. “I have for many years been particularly interested in the hydro-elec-tric possibilities of Now Zealand, and I am hoping to look further into the matter,” said Sir Douglas Mawson, the noted Antarctic explorer, who, with his daughter, Miss P. Mawson, was a pasenger by the Awatea from Sydney yesterday. Sir Douglas is to attend the thirty-third congress of the Australian arid New Zealand Association for the Advancement . of Science, to be held at Auckland between January 12 and 19. He will hand over the office of president to the president-elect, Sir David Rivett, chief executive officer of the Commonwealth Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 326, 6 January 1937, Page 3
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113FAMOUS SCIENTIST. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 326, 6 January 1937, Page 3
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