LIKES DOMINION

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 36, 14 February 1929, Page 11

LIKES DOMINION

MR. BROPHY REMAINING HERE

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.") CimiSTCHUKCH, 13 th February. "I think enough of it to stay here all my life," said Mr. R. G. Brophy, second in command of the Byrd Expedition, yesterday, in reply to a queryas to how he liked New Zealand. Mr. Brophy said that he would probably make his home in Auckland, where ho was to spend next summer. Ho, had several business interests in the Domin-

Mr. Brophy left yesterday i'or Dunedin, to meet the Eleanor Boiling, the supply ship of the expedition. Included in tho cargo to be picked up by tho 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 Boiling 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 aftor 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 tho North Island.