AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 31 July 1928, Page 2

AVIATION

Australian Press Assn.—United Service SOUTH POLE EXPEDITION. NEW YORK, July 30. A message from Los Angeles states that Wilkins announced to-day that ho would use the plane which he flew in the Arctic for his South Pole exploration. and would use a plane of the same type to carry supplies to the taking off place, six hundred miles south of Deception Island. BYRD'S EXPEDITION. DUNEDIN, July 30. The Secretary of the Otago Harbour Board has received word that Commander Byrd should arrive in Dunedin during the latter part of October. New Zealand will lie the base of an Antarctic expedition, the most complete and expensive that ever went into South Polar regions, under the leadership of Commander Byrd, who will attempt to survey the 4,000,000 square miles of unexplored- territory ■/eyond the South Pole. The expedition will have a personnel of pilots, scientists and crew to the number of fifty-five, and will carry three aeroplanes and seventy-five dogs. It will carry a short-wave radio apparatus, and will he in touch with New York. The wooden ice-ship Samson goes to the Ross Ice Barrier. It will spend from three to fifteen months there. Commander Byrd hopes to reach t-lio Barrier by December 16th. hut if he is held up by the ice-pack it may ho January before the expedition can begin its work. ITALIA SURVIVORS. STOCKHOLM. July 30. Madame Mahngreen, after receiving the compass and also information as to lier son from Signor Zappi, of the Italia, declared: “T. absolutely believe that lie is telling the truth.”