COASTAL SURVEY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 August 1939, Page 5

COASTAL SURVEY

ENDEAVOUR DEPARTING ON FRIDAY.

LARGE AMOUNT OF CHARTING CARRIED OUT.

IBy Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 14

The return to England of the Admiralty survey ship Endeavour has now been expedited. She will sail ne-;t Friday by way of the Stiez Canal instead of leaving on August 28. as was originally announced by the Minister of Defence. Mr Jones, when it. was decided to abandon plans for a second comjnission in New Zealand. No information about the ship to replace her is as yet available, nor is it known when the marine survey of the Dominion's coastline which she began more than two years ago will be resumed. Some delay will be occasioned, however, because the Endeavour was due to take up active surveying again in October, and it is not thought that another ship will arrive in New Zealand by that time.

Before it was decided to send th.? Endeavour back to England it had been planned to recommission her at Auckland about August 24. Among the officers appointed to succeed those now serving in the ship were two from the survey ship Scott then working on the coast of Scotland. Since then, rumours have been current that the Scott has been chosen to take up the Endeavour's work in New Zealand. Officers in the Endeavour, however, were unable to substantiate this report and the navy office in Wellington said no information had been received about the ship to resume the survey. When the Endeavour sails on Friday. with Captain Wyatt in command, her officers will have almost, completed the task of drawing fair charts of the survey so far made. Those for the first section undertaken were completed previously, and when the final lot is finished ihe ship’s charts will embrace the results of 4289 square miles of soundings and 662 miles of coastline charting. •These final charts will be sent on to England during Ihe Endeavour’s voyage. They will be dispatched from ports of cal! and will in time (('turn to the Marine Department in New Zealand in the shape of published charts. After that they will be made available to mariners using the coast.