BYRD'S DEPARTURE

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 74, 28 March 1930, Page 12

BYRD'S DEPARTURE

INDEFINITE STILL

PROVISIONAL BOOKINGS

(By Telegraph.) (Special to "The Evening Post.1') DTJNEDIN, This Day. The departure, of Hear-Admiral Kiehard Byrd and his party has been tentatively arranged. Accommodation for Admiral Byrd, Mr. Bussoll Owen, Mr. C. F. Lofgren, and Mr: and Mrs. Berkner has been provisionally booked on the Corinthic, which is due to leave Wellington on 9th April for Southampton and London, via Panama. It is proposed that the Admiral shall rejoin the expedition ship at Panama. An effort was made to book passages on the Eangitiki, leaving Wellington on 24th April, but no accommodation was available. If the party travels by the Corinthic it will reach Panama too far in advance of the ships, and for that reason the Admiral's departure is still afore or less indefinite. "I would much prefer to spend the time in New Zealand, and particularly Dunediu," stated the Admiral yesterday morning.' The latest advice received by the explorer from the barque City of New York, which cleared Otago Harbour on Sunday afternoon for Tahiti, was that at noon on Wednesday she was 225 miles east of Taiaroa Heads, and making good progress under steam and sail. Tho weather was favourable. .At the rate of progress of the City of New York, the Eleanor Boiling should have no difficulty in catching up to her before Papeete is reached. A start was made yesterday to load 4SO tons of coal in. the Eleanor Boiling's bunkers and holds.