MAKING GOOD PROGRESS
PREPARING TO MEET BYRD
(By Telegraph.)
(Special to "The Evening Post.")
DUNEDIN, This Day.
Messrs. H. L. Tapley and Co., local agents for the Byrd Antarctic Expedition, advise that the ships . Eleanor Boiling and City of Now York are making better progress than was nticipated, and it is likely that the former vessel will arrive at Dunedin about 10th March and the City of New York, on which Admiral Byrd is travelling, about 14 th March. Ceremonies of welcome to the expedition are being arranged by the Otago Harbour Board, the Chamber of Commerce, the Mayor (Mr. B. S. Black), and the Government. Tho Mayor of Oamaru (Mr. F. Crawshaw) has also extended an invitation to Byrd to attend a ceremony there and to make the presentation of prizes for tho Scott Memorial Essay Competition which was inaugurated to commemorate the fact that the first news of Captain Scott's death was received in that town. It is ■understood that a representative of the Government will bo in Dunedin to meet the expedition ships on their arrival, but no definite word on this point has yet been received.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 54, 5 March 1930, Page 9
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