BYRD'S TRIBUTE TO SCOTT.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 280, 26 November 1928, Page 10

BYRD'S TRIBUTE TO SCOTT.

WREATH LAID AT MEMORIAL. EXPLORER NOW IN DUNEDIN (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday. Commander Richard E. Byrd and members of hie party, arrived from Wellington this morning. They were met at the station by the Mayor, the town clerk and the American consular agent, Mr. H. P. Bridge. They were subsequently taken on a motor tour of the city and suburbs. In the afternoon Commander Byrd deposited a wreath at the foot of the Scott statue, in the presence of a large assemblage of the public, including representatives of local bodies. . The party left by the night' express for Dunedin.

UNIQUE MEMENTO. GIFT SCOTT tfEVER RECEIVBp. j (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) . j . CHRISTCHURCH, this day. ;! Commander. Byrd Mitt earry with him \ on his dash to. the South Pole a unique memento of Captain Scott, the story of whose deeds ffrst planted in Byrd'e mind the thoughts of Polar exploration. It is a pen oh which are engraved the words, "Robert Falcon Scott, from the Polar Legion." '"It was intended by the Polar Legion, a small body of less than a dozen men, all of whom have done something worth while in Polar research, to present this pen to Captain Srottv but this could not be arranged at the time, and the gallant Englishman never returned to receive it. The Jeiyion thought it would be fitting if Commander Byrd were to take the pen with him on. his present expedition, and »o Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth, who crossed the North Pole with Captain Amundsen, and who- is president of the legion, placed it in Commander Byrd s hands before he left the United States,