MAIL DISCOVERED.
SENT TO LITTLE AMERICA. OVERLOOKED IN EXPEDITION. (By Telegraph.—Press Assoelation.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. After nearly two and a-half years, letter** sent down lo Little America with the second Byrd Expedition are I again reaching New Zealand without postmarks or cachets, just as they were sent, except that Lite money is missing. Accompanying them Is a letter from the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, Washington, explaining that ihe letters were placed in boxes aboard Hcar- ! Admiral R. E. Byrd’s ship and were overlooked by Mr Clark, who was Byrd’s secretary on the expedition. After ttic expedition disbanded last June the boxes were opened and the mail discovered. s The letter adds: “The enclosed letters addressed to you were found in one )<>t. Any information you can let us have concerning these letters will i he appreciated us we would like to i adjust, the matter; satisfactorily,’ l
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19889, 19 May 1936, Page 7
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145MAIL DISCOVERED. Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19889, 19 May 1936, Page 7
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