BYRD EXPEDITION.
EXTENSIVE PREPARATIONS. Dunedin, October 5. Every mail brings news to Dunedin agents regarding the Byrd Antarctic expedition. Large shipments of foodstuffs and equipment are now en route to Port Chalmers. They include 6 cases of tractors, 5 cases of tractor parts, 390 steel barrels of petrol, 844 cases of petrol, aeroplanes, 80 dogs, ponies, two Eskimos, 10,000 cigars, 1000 lbs. of chewing tobacco, 12,0001b5. of granulated sugar, 41 cases of cigarettes, 49 cases of tobacco, and 42 boxes of fowls, while 3200 chickens have yet to be shipped. These form but part of the lists supplied. Thousands of dozens of eggs are purchased in New Zealand and are now being put through the Kassel process of sterilisation.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3854, 6 October 1928, Page 2
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119BYRD EXPEDITION. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3854, 6 October 1928, Page 2
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