Aerial Survey of Easter
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Island
THE interesting suggestion was ad vanced by Mr. R. W. Gosset at the March meeting of the Pacific Is lands Club in Sydney that an aerial sur vey should be made of Easter Island.
Mr. Gosset, a former resident of the Cook Islands and other parts of the Pacific, who has made a special study of Easter Island, said that such a sur vey would be of immeasurable value to scientists.
He pointed out that similar surveys in England had resulted in knowledge be ing increased of the dwellings of primi tive man. “It is a fact that aerial photo graphs reveal much more than the naked eye,” said Mr. Gosset (who was the Club’s guest of honour), “and I have felt for some time that a survey of Easter Island from the air would do likewise. Despite what has been found there already, I feel that an aerial camera would provide us with more information concerning the early inhabitants and earthworks on that fascinating island.”
Other visitors included Miss Margaret Herrington Carruthers, of Apia, Samoa (who contributed several Samoan songs); Mr. Alfred Stephen, who was a member of the first scientific party that investi gated the guano deposits at Makatea Is land; and Mr. Stuart Anderson, of the Protector of Aborigines Department, Thursday Island.