GOING SOUTH AGAIN

Hokitika Guardian, 7 December 1931, Page 2

GOING SOUTH AGAIN

ADMIRAL BYRD’S INTENTION

LEAVING LATE IN 1932,

VANCOUVER, Nov. 10

Captain A. Innis-Taylor, Canadian mentber of Rear-Admiral Byrd’s last expedition to the Antartic, recently paid a visit to Montreal to make arrangements for the next „ expedition, which will set-out next in the autumn of 1932 for further exploration and scientific work on the Antartic continent.

Captain Innis-Taylor, aviator, adventurer. ex-officer of the Canadian Mounted Police in the Yukon, was in charge of file Byrd Expedition’s pack of ?6 north country sledge dogs, during the last trip to tho barren lands of the far South. “They’re barren all right,” he commented half-hum-ournusly. “No life at all when compared with the Artie. Nothing butsnow, ice and naked ridges of rock. Ar.d yet it is a fine country, ‘too. You can get the right perspective on the world when von are there, l'ou get time to think.”

Captain innis-Tnylol 1 declared that he would have been weil satisfied to stay for Another two Veals with Rear-Admidal Byrd in the Artartic. He is very pleased indeed to have been picked already for the second expedition. “Last t>nie,” he explained, “I had charge of the dogs. Wo had 86 of them, of which number I brought about 30 with me from Alaska and the Yukon. Tho rest came form Labrador.” The dogs moved 650 tons of supplies from the coast where the two ships of the, Byrd expedition were unloaded, to the main camp inland. The job took four weeks. “We had tractors, dogs and aeroplanes,” he recalled. “And the best combination was that of cTogs and aeroplanes- The tractors would not stand up to the work. They buried themselves in the snow. The going wps ten rough for them, too. What is really needed in that country is a tractor with a jointed frame, so that when they ride over a bump one end does -not stick up without traction.

“Can you think of anything else that will be taken in the next expedition?’’ he was asked, and replied promptly: “Television, if it is in good enough working condition by that time. It certainly will be app eeiated.”