PENGUIN’S LEG AND WHALE STEAK
ANTARCTIC FARE FOR CHRISTMAS. BYRD’S REPLY TO WILKINS. United Press Association —By .Eloctri* Telegraph—Copyright. Received Tuesday, 8'.5 p.m. NEW YORi£, March 39. Sir Hubert Wilkins, speaking over the radio, said he was planning to partake of dinner next Christmas 'with Byrd in Little America. The broadcast was apparently picked up by Byrd’s station and the latter sent an immediate reply that the expedition would welcome Wilkins and a “penguin’s leg” would be saved for him. “We have a couple of hundred seals for the winter. We are eating seal and whale now and like it,“.added Commander Byrd.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6864, 20 March 1929, Page 7
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