FOR THE SOUTH POLE.
BYRD’S EXPEDITION. ESTIMATED TO COST HALF A MILLION DOLLARS, BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT Received 11.35 a.m. to-day. NEW YORK, March 11. Commander Byrd has announced that the South Pole expedition would cost five hundred thousand dollars. He would leave about September 1. The personnel of the actual air dash from the Ross ice barrier base to the Pole would be Byrd, Balchen, and Bennett, an a special three-motor Ford all-metal ’plane. Besides this three others would be used on the expedition, which would consume from eighteen months to three years.—A.P.A. and “Sun.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 12 March 1928, Page 9
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