DOGS FOR ANTARCTIC.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20303, 10 July 1929, Page 10

DOGS FOR ANTARCTIC.

TRAINING AT MOUNT COOK.

PERMIT FROM GOVERNMENT

STRICT TERMS IMPOSED

[by TELEGRAPH. —OWN CORRESPONDENT.] CHHISTCHURCH, Tuesday.

Mr. A. Innes-Taylor, the young Canadian member of the Byrcl expedition who has been conducting the negotiations for the transfer of the dogs, received the following telegram to-day from Sir Joseph Ward:—

''The Government has decided to allow Hie dogs to be taken to the Mount Cook region, subject to the execution by yon arid two approved sureties of a bond for £SOO, to adhere to certain conditions, which may be summarised as follows: "(1) The dogs shall be kept under secure control, and no dog shall be permitted, allowed or suffered to obtain its liberty. (2) The dogs to be subject to supervision and inspection of Stock Inspector Fairlie. (3) No dog of any ago 'shall be sold or given away to any person in the Dominion.

"(4) No animal shall be allowed to have contact with any dog domiciled in New Zealand. (5) If circumstances prevent (he shipment of the dogs to the Antarctic, they shall be reshipped to North America or elsewhere. (6) No transfer of dogs from the Hermitage or adjacent region shall be made without the prior approval of the of Agriculture.

"The Director-General of Agriculture is communicating with you, and forwarding the necessary document for completion." The dogs will go South to-morrow morning, leaving Lyttelton about 9 a.m., after being brought over from Quail Island. Two lorries belonging to the Mount Cook Motor Company will make the trip to the Hermitage in one day, reaching there tomorrow evening, and the 15 dogs will go in the crates that will be used for shipping them to the Antarctic. The dogs will not be out of the crates until they reach their winter quarters, probably on Thursday. Mr. Jnnes-Taylor will go South with them, in company with Air. Charles Kessler, who has been on Quail Island with the dogs since their arrival.