WILLING TO STAY

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 120, 14 February 1929, Page 10

WILLING TO STAY

MR. R. G. BROPHY IMPRESSED WITH NEW ZEALAND

LATEST ADVICE FROM ELEANOR BOLLING

Dominion Special Service. Christchurch, February 13. “I think enough of it to stay here all. my life,” said Mr. R. G. Brophy, second in command of the Byrd Expedition, to-day, in reply to a ireporter’s query as to how he liked New Zealand. Mr. Brophy said that he would probably make his home in Auckland, where he was to spend next summer. He had several business interests in the Dominion.

Mr. Brophy left this morning for Dunedin, to meet the Eleanor Bolling, the supply ship of the expedition. Included in the cargo to be picked up by the Eleanor Boiling are another aeroplane,, two automobiles, two large crawler tractors, similar in type to the war-time tanks, four portable houses, 8000 gallons of aviation spirit, 4000 gallons of kerosene, and a large quantity of food, oil, grease, etc. The Eleanor Bolling is now four hundred miles off, having run into bad weather, which has delayed her arrival at Dunedin until to-morrow. Questioned regarding future movements, Mr. Brophy said that after his business in Dunedin was completed he would spend a fortnight’s holiday—the first he had had in ten years—on a fishing expedition in the North Island.

MORE VOLUNTEERS WANTED VACANCIES FOR .NEW ZEALANDERS There are already three New Zealanders serving with Commander Byrd’s Antarctic Expedition, one as a radio operator, another as a cook, and a third as a sail-maker. A radio message from Commander Byrd received yesterday by Mr. R. G. Brophy, states that two more radio operators can be used by the Expedition, to make the trip from Dunedin to the Antarctic, and return in the Eleanor Bolling, as it has been found necessary to keep one. of the ship’s radio operators at Little America to assist in establishing a radio station there. The New Zealand amateur operator who volunteered and is now returning from the Antarctic is unable to make a second trip in the Eleanor Bplling. .The first two most competent operators who apply in person to Mr. Brophy at Dunedin, and are ready to sail with the Eleanor Bolling next Saturday, will be accepted to go in her to the Antarctic, and return to Dunedin within a month. There is also a vacancy for a sea-going cook to make this trip in the Eleanor Bolling. These positions are open to volunteers only. No salaries are paid to the men serving in the Expedition.

ELEANOR BOLLING IN A GALE (United Service.) • ; , Vancouver, February 12. The Eleanor Bolling, on Monday whs five hundred miles south-west of Dunedin in the throes of a heavy gale with tremendous beam seas, the ship listing to 56 degrees. “This is the worst one yet,” saffi Captain Brown, the master of Commander Byrd’s supply ship. The night before they had not only heard Australian and New Zealand radio with great’ clarity, but listened to a fine concert from Japan.