FOR THE ANTARCTIC.
BYRD'S great expedition.
SAMFIiE OP THE SUPPLIES.
AEROPLANES AND CIGARS
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. Every American mail brings news to the Dunedin agents regarding the Byrd Antarctic Expedition. The large shipment of foodstuffs and equipment are now en route to Port Chalmers, and include six .cases of tractors, five cases of tractor parts, 390 steel barrels of petrol, 844 cases of petrol, aeroplanes, 80 dogs, ponies, 10,000 cigars, 10001b of chewing tobacco, 12,0001b of granulated sugar, 41 cases of cigarettes, 49 cases of tobacco, and 42 boxes of fowls. In addition 3200 chicken have yet to be shipped. These form but a tithe of the lists supplied. Thousands of dozens of eggs have been purchased in New Zealand, and are now being put through the Kassel process of sterilisation. Two Eskimos are now en route to New Zealand with the supplies.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 236, 5 October 1928, Page 8
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146FOR THE ANTARCTIC. Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 236, 5 October 1928, Page 8
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