BYRD NEARS DUNEDIN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 913, 5 March 1930, Page 9

BYRD NEARS DUNEDIN

CITY OF NEW YORK IN FAIR WIND DOGS FOR MOUNT COOK By RUSSELL OWEN Copyrighted, 1928. by the "New Tork Times’* ‘company and the St. Louis "PostDispatch.** All rights for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless to the "New York Times." CITY OF NEW YORK, Tuesday. The City of New York at noon today was 89G miles south of Dunedin She has made 180 miles in the last 24 hours—the best run of this voyage. A southerly gale, which speeded us over the week-end, subsided this morning. The wind, with a velocity of 65 miles an hour on Sunday night, sent us bowling along. Some gasoline drums stored on deck bfoke loose and eight, went overboard before the crew could secure them. Fortunately our deck cargo and our dogs had been transferred to whalers three days ago. We miss the dogs greatly. They have lived absolutely with us everywhere for a year. Twenty-seven of them are to be sent to the perpetual snows of Mount Cook, New Zealand, and 35 others are to be sent across the Equator to spend the rest of their days in civilisation. The men were asked to make selections for personal pets. Then all the dogs were transferred to the whalers. That night the City of New York seemed strangely empty- There was no familiar chorus of the howling pack, no pawing by dirty feet. During the 13 hours in which the ship was moored alongside the ice-pack the dogs worked as never before. They travelled back and forth 50 miles that night in the rush to get the cargo on board. BYRD ON WAY HOME BOTH SHIPS MAY ARRIVE TOGETHER TWO MEMBERS OF CREW ILL Press Association DUNEDIN, Today. A radio message from Rear-Admiral Byrd to his local agents states that the Eleanor Boling and the City of New York may arrive together on Monday or Tuesday. Mason, the radio operator, is suffering from appendicitis, and has been put aboard a whaler for transference to hospital. Able-Seaman Buyx, suffering from a fractured shoulder, lias been transferred to the C. A. Larsen, which will land him at Stewart Island. All the dogs are aboard the C. A. Larsen and are going by that vessel to the United States. A number of the members of the expedition will go to the States by the quickest possible route. The Eleanor Boling left the ice with the C. A Larsen on March 1.