CAPTAIN SCOTT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10122, 19 October 1910, Page 5

CAPTAIN SCOTT.

THE ANTARCTIC IXPEDII TION, ! DETAILS CONCERNING THE PARTY. Received Last Night, 9.5 o'clock. I SYDNEY, Last Night. Captain Scott, interviewed in regard to the Antarctic Expedition, said he had easily enough food for three years. .The main portion of the food supply .would be pemmican and speciallymade biscuits, with a large amount of proteid in them. '.i hey were taking a little alcohol with them, in case of sickness. The men of the party were not rabid teetotallers, but they would not take any liquor on the dash for the Pole. The main object of the Expedition was to reach the Pole, but no opportunity of doing good scientific work j would be neglected before the dash. 'i hey had together a staff of scientists of great experience, more numerous thtn on any previous expedition. The motor sledges they were tak ing were the resul; of years' experiments by Captain Scott, % who had brought them as near to perfection as possible. The stores would include 1600 gallons of petrol. . Marconi tad offered to put a wireless plant on the 1 erra Nova. With its aid, and everybody's shoulder to the wheel, he hoped to cover the last 111 miles which Lieut. Sha:kleton had failed to traverse. Describing the Polar party, he said he hoped that, after laying the depots, they would be able to make a start in October next year. The party would consist of sixteen specially-chosen, hardy men. They would have to travel at given intervals. Four would go ; back on each occasion, and the fittest would be picked to go on until only four would remain, who would make the final dash. This process of elimination, b.3 loped, would accomplish the object. There wa3, he said, no such thing in Polar work as a certainty; but he was sure that everyone was going to work in a right spirit, with a firm idea of getting to the Pole. Regarding the financing of the Expedition, Captain Scott said he thought the Commonwealth would double its subscription. v The Mayor and a representative gathering welcomed Captain Scott at the Town Hall. Professor David declared that he was fully vonfident that Capain Scott would fulfill his"mission. Captian Scott, replying, asked, "Why net keep the whole of the land lying south of Australia for the British race, and say, we do , not want other nationalities to write their names on the lands touth of this country?" The meeting decided to approach Mr Hughes, with a view to getting the-Federal Government to double it 3 grant for the Expedition.