ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.
WELCOME TO PROFESSOR DAVID. Received April 2, 10 a.m. SYDNEY, April 2. The Lord Mayor, Mr Allen Taylor, presided over a great citizens' meeting to welcome Professor David, on his return from Antarctica. The doors of the Town Hall were closed early to prevent overcrowding. By an oversight Professor David was locked out, and was unable to gain an entrance for half an hour. The Federal Attorney-General only succeeded in forcing his way through on the back of an alderman. Hundreds were' unable to gain admissiun. Prrofessor David, in the course of a speech, said it had been almost as difficult to get into the gathering as it was to work a way up to the Magnetic Pole. In this connection he wished to say with great emphasis that the Magnetic Pole was not discovered, and not located by him, but by Mr Mawson. He laid stress on the fact that during the four months'occupied by the journey, the party had not had one drop of alcohol. On one occasion, a birthday celebration, they had just a little wine, but found their resistance to the cold dropped, so they dropped alcohol.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3154, 3 April 1909, Page 6
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193ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3154, 3 April 1909, Page 6
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