THE FROZEN SOUTH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 238, 6 April 1912, Page 5

THE FROZEN SOUTH.

AX UXWORKED COAL FIELD. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Sydney, April 4. Professor David says that Captain Amundsen's statement that there was a patch of calm 260 miles in diameter, near the Pole, proves the theoretical prediction of meteorologists, and indicates' that the wind is blowing straight down instead of horizontally. He considers that Captain Scott's coal discoveries are highly important, and in conjunction with Sir E. Shackleton's prove that the coal-bearing strata are continuous over an enormous and it is not unlikely that they form the largest unworked coal field in the,.warld. FRIENDLY RIVALRY. Sydney, April 4. Professor David, presiding at Captain Amundsen's lecture, said that a statement had been published td' the effect that Captain Amundsen did not give Captain Scott notice thai he would be a competitor for the Pole, but it was clearly understood that he sent a message from Madeira, which Captain Scott received in Xew Zealand, that the Fram was going to the Antarctic. There was a fair field, and it was anybody's Pole. Captain Amundsen's doings were fair and square and above-board, and there was nothing unsportsmanlike. "Everything between Scott and Amundsen," concluded Professor David, "was in a spirit of high, noble and friendly rivalry. Captain Scott will now reach "the Pole, and when he returns his first action, we may be sure, will be to send hearty congratulations to the champion who has beaten him."