IN ANTARCTICA

Hokitika Guardian, 1 February 1929, Page 5

IN ANTARCTICA

BYRD'S SMI? TO TOl'R N.Z. k FRESH FUNDS FOR. ENDED IT I ON. (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Jan. 111. •Mr R. (i. Brophy. the Second in Command of the Byrd expedition announces that the aerial strength of the expedition is to he increased hy tvringing from America another of the great Fairchild pontoon aeroplanes, duplicate of that now being flown in the Antarctic hy Byrd. Mr Brophy said that the suitability of Auckland for the (lying of such a water-base machine had prompted "■ the decision to have it brought here for the first of an extensive .series of experimental flights, which Inter would probably include a complete aerial tour of the New Zealand coast. Air Brophy says that the City of Now York, after returning to Dunedin for the winter, .will probably require docking for repairs after which she will visit Lyttelton. "Wellington, Auckland, Suva, Honolulu, Tahiti Melbourne and Sydney. The expedition is proving even more costly than was anticipated. Already the expenditure is £30,000 over the estimate .but more funds are consantlv being raised in America. • The fifteen dogs which arrived by V live Niagara, cost JBoOO landed here. Mr Brophy is arranging for the manufacture in Auckland of more .-moke bombs to be used in snow living jor gumgirig the plane’s distance from ground, tnd for indicating the direction of the wind. "By Russell Owen, copyrighted 1928 by Now York Times Company and St. Louis Post Dispatch. All rights for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless to ‘New York Times.’ ” A DAY OF* WORK. EXPEDITION BUSILY ENCAGED. (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) / . /Received this day at 9.2 b. a.m.) BAY OF WHALES, Jan. 81. To-day is one of hard work ifor every member of the expedition. To make up for thei loss of our dock, the ships are moored alongside the low harrier edge, which rises here only to the level of the Bolling’s bridge and unloading is being rushed as bast as possible to gef the three-motored Fokker, one of our heaviest and bulkiest pieces of equipment, out JfH the hold before we arc forced to move. Supplies ifor Wild’s • party of the Mawson expedition were landed in this way on the Shnckleton ice shelf and Byrd had been quick to seize a similar k opportunity. All materials are being Jh moved hack along the trail nearly a fiile so that they may he picked up iter on and hauled to the base. The Fokker is being taxied inland. The break up of the bay of ice yesterday came as a result oif a heavy swell the night before. Our trail, over which so much good sledging work was clone is now going seaward in a thousand pieces and we have even seen some (lags used to make the trail sailing on cakes of ice. The hay is full ol small bergs, which were broken off to the south and north of us. We have several times seen that interesting phenomena the calving or birth oi an \ iceberg.