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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 61, 5 December 1928, Page 9

In the course of his speech at the Dunedin civic reception to Commander Byrd and other members of the Antarctic expedition. Flight-Lieutenant Boss Hughes, of the Otagif Aero Club, said that on that day (he club had become the proud possessor of a ground for an aerodrome (reports the "Otago Daily Tinies”). Owing to the nature of the country round Dunedin it had been a matter of great difficulty to find a suitable ground on which to build an aerodrome. Some months ago the advisers of the dub secured an option over what would be a very suitable piece of ground, and that day a public-spirited citizen had secured that property on behalf of the dub. (Applause.)_ Dunedin had been truly called tlie Edinburgh of the Soutli, and he might say that its citizens had in no small measure lived up to file traditions of the great North, lie felt sure that Mr. Charles Todd had done the dub a great service, and had earned the deep gratitude not only of the club, but also of the citizens of Dunedin in providing that ground. (Applause.) The aim of Hie dub was to receive any 'plane that visited the Dominion.