BYRD EXPEDITION.
MR R: G. BROPHY IMPRESSED WITH NEW ZEALAND.
CHRISTCHURCH, Feb. 13.
“I think enough of it to stay here all my life,” stated Mr It. G. Brophy, second in command of the Byrd Expedition, in reply to a query as to how he liked New Zealand. Mr Brophy stated that he would probably make his home in Auckland, where he was to spend next summer. He had several business interests in the Dominion.
Mr Brophy left this morning for Dunedin to meet the Eleanor Bolling, the supply ship of the expedition. Included in the cargo to be picked up by the Eleanor Bolling are another aeroplane, two automobiles, two large crawler tractors, similar in type to the war-time tanks, four portable houses, 8000 gallons of aviation spirit, 4000 gallons of kerosene, and a large quantity of food, oil, grease, etc. Questioned regarding future movements, Mr Brophy said that after his business in Dunedin was completed lie would spend a fortnight’s holiday—the first he had had in ten years—on a fishing expedition in the North Island.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 65, 14 February 1929, Page 2
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