BYRD EXPEDITION

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 135, 5 December 1933, Page 11

BYRD EXPEDITION

DUE LATE TONIGHT. According to radio advice, received in Wellington this morning the Jacob Buppert, carrying the larger portion of tho Byrd Antarctic Expedition, is due to arrive in the stream! at Wellington at 9 p.m. today. Owing-to a heavy northerly wind, however, there is :a possibility that the ship will not reach Wellington, until the early hours of tomorrow morning. . After being inspeeto'd by the port health officers the ship will berth at the Pipitea Wharf, probably between 8 and 9 a.m.' tomorrow. There'are over 50 tons -of supplies waiting to be picked up by the cxpeditionhcre, and no timo is to bo lost in loading operations, every effort being mado to got tho ship away by Saturday for the Bay of Whales. Mr. I*. J. Gardiner, who is acting as the local representative for . BearAdmiral Byrd, reports that many applications have been received to fill vacancies in the personnel of tho expedition. Between forty:aiid fifty telephono calls were received this morning. He is, however, dealing with none but Written applications. , During the brief stay in Wellington of Rear-Admiral Byrd, the distinguished | American, naval explorers, various community organisations aro ..tendering RearAdmiral Byrd a, combined reception, to be held at tlie Town Hall, Wellington, next Friday at 8 p.m. .The Mayor, Mr. T. C. A. Hislop, will preside.!' The various organisations participating in the reception ; includo. the New Zealand . Antarctic Society, the English-speaking. Union, the Institute of Pacific Relation's, the University Women's Club, the Overseas League, the Returned Soldiers' ' Association, the Rotary Club, the University Club, the Victoria League, the Y.M.CA.., and the New Zealand Chib. Tickets of admission may be obtained from the secretaries o£ the respective organisations, or at the reception committee office, room 7, ground floor, Dominion Parmcrs' Building. Pollowing the reception, there will be a conversazione, which will include musical items by Mrs. Wilfred Andrews. Miss Jeanette Briggs, Miss Marjorie Bennie, and Mr. 13. Grlading. The programme of the evening will conclude with supper and dancing. v-- ' A verdict of accidental drowning was returned by tho Coroner, Mr. E. Gilbortson, J.P., at an inquest hold yesterday into the death of Ronald Allen James Patterson, aged 4|, who fell into a disused well on the property of the Wellington Gas Coro^ugiJ, lit pirama^os^Mteniboifeea,, . _ E....krA [