702 NORTHMOST AUSTRALIA 



on the face of the chart (except, perhaps, May and Hazelgrove 

 Reefs), it toay be conjectured that her activities during this period 

 were confined to sounding. 



I am tempted to add (although it may be somewhat ultra 

 crepidam) that the " Dart " was built in 1858 as a yacht for an 

 English nobleman, and in 1918 was doing service, under Captain 

 I. A. Hatherfield Newman, as a boys' training ship, owned by the 

 Victorian Government, and making " merchant " trips between 

 Victoria and Tasmania. 



