BYRD EXPEDITION

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 112, 14 May 1930, Page 10

BYRD EXPEDITION

AMERICAN PUBLICITY

"BOOST" FOR DUNEDIN

(By Telegraph.) ■ ' (Special to "The Evening Post.")! DUNEDIN,, This Day. On 3rd April every newspaper in the United ■ States,- served with news and photograph features by the Associated Press simultaneously published photographs of the return of thp Byrd Expedition to Dunedin, photographs having been hurried by aeroplane to New York from' Panama. Tho photographs were taken by ■ a Dunedin photographer under contract to tho Associated Press, and wero maiU ed to Panama "by the. , first outgoing steamer. Tho ship reached Balboa on 31st March, and tho photographs were immediately delivered to Leo Schoenhair, pilot of a Goodrich monoplane, and on 3rd April, at 2.30 p.m., ho landed at the field at Newark, N.J., having taken a little over eight hours on the last leg from Miami, Florida. An hour later the news photographs were being telephotoed' across country by the Bell system for. immediate distribution to newspapers,' and' the Paramount Nowa workshop was grinding out movie news reel releases foreshowing in theatres. On the following day the "New York Times" devoted a full"page of its rotogravure section to photographs, and the New York "Daily Nowa" featured the first photographs of Admiral Byrd's return to civilisation with two pages in every paper in. America on 3rd April.-' .Dunedin was prominently mentioned. ' A WONDERFUL ADVERTISEMENT. It is becoming more apparent with the arrival of every mail that Otago received a wonderful advertisement through its harbour being the land base of the expedition, and a greater "boost" : will be given tho city and province when Admiral Byrd returns to New York. The first mail from .the Byrd Antarctic expedition ships reached Dunedin from Tahiti during tho week-end. Writing homo from the Eleanor Boiling, one of tho Dunedin members of the expedition states that a stowaway, was found'on that ship on the second day out, and it was the intention of tho captain to laud him at Tahiti. Tho cook left tho Eleanor Boiling at Port Chalmers, but this was no great disability, for with an. expedition ship there are resourceful men who can and^do.meet any emergency. A number suffered from seasickness, and with the heavy seas running they had a bad timo until Tahiti was reached, perhaps the greatest sufferer being tho popular Professor Larry-Gould, the second in command of tho expedition. Otherwise tho crews were in fine fettle. ■ SUNSHINE ENJOYED. A week before reaching Tahiti every monitor slept on deck owing , to the heat. A pair of pants was tho order of tho day, and sunbathing was tho popular pastime. One of the Eleanor Boiling's hands stated that they were so brown with the sun that' they would pass for. a crew of natives.