BYRD’S EXPEDITION
DEPARTURE FOR NEW ZEALAND.
(Australian Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn—Copyright.)
NEW YORK, August 22.
Thirty-one members of the Byrd Antarctic expedition, sail aboard the steamer City of New York on Saturday, August 25, for Dunedin, New Zealand. The last member of the crew ■to be named is Paul Siple, a 19-year-'old Boy Scout, who will act as orderly to Commander Byrd, he having been chosen from one thousand applicants. The City of New York has loaded 300 tons of coal, and she is packed With equipment for the expedition. The aircraft, which will be sent later, will consist of four planes with Bernt Balchen and Dean Smith (former Air Mail pilot) as the pilots. The small steamer “Celsea,” which is now being reconditioned here, will carry the aeronautical equipment.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 August 1928, Page 7
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