Byrd and Wife Reunited
Kept in Touch for Two Years by Radio PRIVATE CODE ARRANGED (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, To-day. Admiral R. E. Byrd and his wife were re-united in Auckland to-day after a separation of nearly two years. Airs Byrd arrived by the Mariposa and her husband by train from AVellington.
Although separated so long, they have been in continual touch by means of wireless. They Bad a private code which, unlike the radio telephone, was secret. When Admiral Byrd was living alone in the hut in the far south his messages were sent to Little America and relayed from there. 'She expressed delight" at being in New Zealand, of whose beauty and friendliness her husb'and had often written. Tjie “Admiral and his wife will leave shortly for Dunedin.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 February 1935, Page 8
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130Byrd and Wife Reunited Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 22 February 1935, Page 8
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