THE POLAR FLIGHT

Hokitika Guardian, 10 June 1925, Page 2

THE POLAR FLIGHT

irSTHAI.IAN AND N.Z. CAIII.K ASSOCIATION AM I'ND'K.VS .IOrRXF.V. OSLO, June s (Jiicial met '.‘urological and acropi-i le r.-pn sentatives who have been to Spi;v ie;gcu in (Mimci-tiun with Amtiud--e; i flight. are giving up the h.u.e (i .tu.uudseii's return from the Pole bv WASIII N't;TON. June ». I The Secretary to the Navy, Mr Wilbur, declared the INS.A. Xavv Department was not going to start a wild goose chase into the Arctic in response to an appeal of the Norwegian Aero Cluh, through the Xortli American Newspaper Alliance, that the dirigible, l.os Angeles, or Shenuandoah should at t 'Nipt to lint! A ll ■ m 11 !- 1 . 11 . lie said that there arc two great pmc tic,M diilicultics due to the An tic iemisuature, which would cause rain or -now to freeze in layers on the Hit - h)| .- of the ship, and there was the p -sibility that the t rcihcn.lous extra Weight would titu-e a ioreej landing. Feciiiulilv. it was po.--iblc that the cold would free:'.:- Ilu* lubricating oil of the engine. He indicates that three naval amphibian airplanes attached to the Macmillan Fx|iedition. would sail from Boston on the 171 It June, and would cuter in the search for Amundsen.