MAPS TO BE REDRAWN
To the Editor of News of N.Z. Sir, — On behalf of the mapmakers of this country I wish to appeal to the Government to take further steps that would put beyond all doubt the existence of the Southern Continent. Captain Cook says there is no such place, but is he qualified to make such a claim after only two voyages ? If what he claims is true, every world map will be out-dated and will have to be redrawn— terrific undertaking. The matter is too important to depend on the word of one man. Yours, &c., Mapmaker. Asked to comment on this letter, Captain Cook said that after this last voyage there was now no room for doubt; the whole ocean had been covered (“ no piece of seaweed has been left unturned ” ) ; the results were conclusive. “ I was led up the garden path,” said the captain. After a first reading of his journal we suggest he was kidded up a bluegum tree.—Ed.
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Korero (AEWS), Volume 2, Issue 14, 17 July 1944, Page 16
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165MAPS TO BE REDRAWN Korero (AEWS), Volume 2, Issue 14, 17 July 1944, Page 16
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