ROSS SEA WHALERS.
•HIPS DDI NEXT MONTH.
COMMANDER BYRD'S PLANE.
(By Telegrapn.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day.
The whaling factory ship, Sir James Clark Bobs is expected to arrive in Port Chalmers about November 2. After taking, in fresh supplies of water she will proceed to her base at Stewart Island, and leave: for the Antarctic on , November 12.
The C. A. Larsen, with Commander R. B. Byrd, head of the Antarctic Expedition, It expected to arrive in Wellington on November 4 frbm Lot Angeles She will replenish .her bunkers with oil fuel and proceed to Stewart Island, and leave for the Ross Sea about November 14.
It is not yet known whether Commander Byrd will transfer his large aeroplane from the Larsen to his own vessel, the City of New York.
The new whale chaser, Star One, which Is to joint the whalinsr fleet, is expected to arrive at the Bluff from Norway on Monday. She is intended to replace one of the old whale chasers, now at Stewart ' Island.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 249, 20 October 1928, Page 14
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