BYRD'S SHIPS.
THE LATEST MOVEMENTS.
CITY OF NEW YORK'S PROGRESS
(Per Press Association.) DUXEDIX, This Day
Owing to the condition of the ice pack in the southern latitudes, the departure of the Byvd Antarctic Expedition supply ship, Eleanor from Dnnedin has boon postponed until Monday.
Advice received yesterday stated that the whaling fleet had not yet succeeded in negotiating the ice pack. The Eleanor Rolling is now loading additional bunker coal, and she will also carry 50001 bof fresh meat for transhipment to the whaling factory ship, Kosmos, when the two vessels meet in the Ross Sea.
It is expected that the Eleanor Boiling will overtake the barque City of New York before she reaches the ice. The latter vessel will be towed through th pack by the steamer. At noon yesterday the City of New York, which left Port Chalmers on the morning of "January 6 for the Bay of Whales, was belojiv 'latitude 56 south, or about 700 miles south-east of the Otago Heads. The ship then had about 500 miles to cover before reaching the ice belt.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 50, Issue 82, 17 January 1930, Page 4
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