THE BYRD EXPEDITION.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20642, 14 February 1929, Page 10

THE BYRD EXPEDITION.

ELEANOR BOLLING DELAYED. MR BEOPHY TO SETTLE IN DOMINION. (Special to Daily Times.) CHRISTCHURCH, February 13. “ I think enough of it to stay here all my life,” said Mr E, G. Brophy, second in command and business manager of the Byrd expedition, in reply to a reporter’s query as to how he liked New Zealand. Mr Brophy said 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 by the first express for the south to meet the Eleanor Bolling, the supply ship of the expedition, at Dunedin, where some lastminute supplies are to be taken aboard. Included amongst the cargo to be picked up are another aeroplane, two automobiles, two largo 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. The Eleanor Bolling is’now 400 miles off, having run into bad weather, which has delayed her arrival at Dunedin until to-morrow.

Questioned regarding his future movements, Mr Brophy said that after his business in Dunedin was completed he would spend a fortnight’s holiday, the first he had had in 10 years, on a fishing expedition in the North Island.