SOUTHWARD HO!

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 524, 29 November 1928, Page 6

SOUTHWARD HO!

BYRD EXPEDITION READY MAY LEAVE TO-MORROW REPORT FROM C. A. LARSEN Press Association DUNEDIN, To-day. A satisfactory report of ice conditions has been received from the whaler C. A. Larsen, and the City of New York will probably leave to-morrow night for the Bay of Whales. | At a reception by the Harbour I Board yesterday, Commander Richard Byrd said it depended entirely on the C. A. Larsen when they went through the ice to the Bay of Whales. ■ However, they expected to get to the ice barrier about December 8, and it was possible they would pull into the Bay of Whales about Christmas Day. They w r ould commence their Southern inarch at once. Dog teams and a party of men would be put ashore immediately, and a start made on the laying down of bases. There w'ould be tents and supplies of food every 25 miles, with a larger depot every 100 miles. A small airplane tvould also be put ashore, and flights made to explore the country and pick out bases. They expected tb add something to the achievements of Captain Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton and Sir Douglas Mawson. The dash to the Pole was only a very secondary thing. What they w-anted most to do was to fly over this great unknown territory. EXPEDITION’S PERSONNEL The principal members of the expedition are as follow: Richard E. Byrd, commander; Richard G. Brophy, second In command; Frederick C. Melville, master of the City of New York; Gustav L. Brown, master of the Eleanor Boling; Harry R. King, Joe de Ganehl, Harry Adams and Charles J. McGuinness, mates; Thomas B. Mulroy and Frank McPherson, chief engineers; Malcolm P. Hanson, radio engineer; Lloyd V. Berkner, Howard F. Mason, Carl O. Peterson and Lloyd K. Grenlie, radio operators. Clair D. Alexander, supply officer; William C. Haines, meteorologist; Henry T. Harrison, junior aerologist; Dr. Francis D. Coman, medical director Dr. Haldor D. Barnes, assistant physician; Laurence M. Gould, geographer and geologist; Ashley C. McKinley, aerial photographer; John S.

O’Brien, suveyor; Russell Owen, newspaper correspoiient; Willard van der Veer and Joseph T. Riicke, motion picture photographers; Ralph P. Shropshire, hydrographer. Bernt Balcheu. Dean Smith, Harold June and x\lton N. Parker, air pilots; Benjamin Roth, E. J. Demas, Jerry de Cecoa and Kennard F. Bubier, aviation mechanics; Arthur T. Walden, in charge of dog teams; Paul A. Siple, seamanship division (Boy Scout); Quin A. Blackburn, topographer; Victor H. Czegka, machinist; Frank T. Davies, physicist and glaciologist. A number will be required to stay on the ice during the winter, but they have not yet been selected.