SURVEY OFFICERS SAFE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 338, 20 January 1937, Page 5

SURVEY OFFICERS SAFE.

Party From Discovery II Now Located. Press Association—Copyright. Loudon, January 19. ' A survey party of six officers was | reported yesterday to be missing on King George’s Island in the South | Shetlands after being landed there as a survey party from the research ship Discovery 11. However, the Governor of Falkland Islands, aboard H.M.S. Ajax, wirelessed the Colonial Office early this morning that the missing party had been located and had returned to the Discovery, all being well. News of the searen for the missing officers came on the 25th anniversary of Captain Scott reaching the South Pole, said an earlier message. The Discovery left England in September with a crew of 50 to obtain data of stocks ot whales in the tarctic seas and their distribution and life history. It was expected that the Discovery would be away for 20 months, during which it would visit Australia, New Zealand and the Falkland Islands. The Colonial Office announces that those who were saved from the Discovery were Lieutenant Walker, ship’s surgeon; Mr Strong, scientific 1 officer; Mr O. M. Manney, third engineer; Mr Gourlay, and two of the ship’s crew.