£3,000 TO POST LETTERS
WILKINS’S POLAR FLIGHT WILL RACE WITH BYRD (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) NEW YORK, Friday. A mesage fi-om Orange, New Jersey, says Sir Hubert Wilkins, in a letter to a local stamp dealer, indicates that he will attempt to beat Commander Byrd in crossing the South Pole. He says: “I will, so far as I can see, and unless accidents happen, be the first person to fly in the Antarctic, and the first and only person to fly across the South Pole this or next year.’ The collector Is paying £3,000 to Sir Hubert to carry 150 letters addressed to himself across the South Pole. The letters will be stamped at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands. They will then be taken to Deception Island by Sir Hubert, and thence across the South Pole and probably to the Bay of Whales.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 478, 6 October 1928, Page 9
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143£3,000 TO POST LETTERS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 478, 6 October 1928, Page 9
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