SUBMARINE PROJECT

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 360, 15 February 1937, Page 6

SUBMARINE PROJECT

SIR HUBERT WILKINS.

FIVEFOLD OBJECT.

To Travel Beneath Arctic Ice-Floes.

Press Association—Copyright. New York, February 14

Sir Hubert Wilkins will return to London. He is underwriting his sub* marine polar project himself at a cost of £27,000. “That probably why Dady Wilkins went to work/ said Sir Hubert, “without telling me. She feels that she Is helping to finance the trip and it is perfectly ah right with me. It is not as though I were here a great <TeaT and her working interfered with our home life. Lady Wilkins, who admitted that she' is constantly nervous and on edge from having to practice for concerts and then render dozens of songs nightly at a cabaret, declared that she is accompanying Sir Huberi on the forthcoming trip in June, 1938

Sir Hubert said that he had a fivefold objective, the principal one of which was to locate the supposeuTy mythical Croker Land that Perry saw south of the North Pole and northeast of Ellesmere Land. He will sail from Spitzbergen v.'ith a crew of seven, besides his wife, and will travel several thousand miles beneath the Arctic floes. He is planning to Stop briefly under the North Pole before coming up somewhere along the Alaskan coast.