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Otago Witness, Issue 3889, 25 September 1928, Page 52

A large quantity of stores for Commander Byrd’s Antarctic expedition is on board the steamer Port Hunter, which reached Auckland from New York on Sunday morning. The stores include 522 cases of kerosene, 270 drums of gasolene, and 800 cases of gasolene for the expedition’s aeroplanes, 100 barrels of lubricating oil, and three cases of lubricating grease, and also five tons of other stores, including foodstuffs such as frozen livers, turkeys, and chickens, as well as a quantity of cigarettes, tobacco, clothing, and other comforts. The stores will be conveyed to Port Chalmers, the New Zealand base of the expedition.

Travel “ stunts ” are in vogue just now (says our special correspondent in Auckland). A new one was initiated at Newmarket on Saturday, when a onelegged ex-soldier started out to cycle round the North Island, a longer journey; he claims, than that of Squadron-Leader Kingsford-Smith from Sydney to Christchurch. The object of the one-legged “ digger " is to circum-cycle the North Island, a distance of 1400 to 1600 miles, starting without funds, and earning his keep on the journey. Rihari Heke is the name of the one-legged cyclist, and he claims to be the only surviving white descendant of the famous Ngapuhi chief Hone Heke.

Mr J. Scott-Main, curator of the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society, returned to Timaru on Friday afternoon from the Mackenzie Country, where, during the past few days, he has been engaged in liberating 500,000 strong, healthy trout fry in the creeks and lake tributaries of this angling resort. Mr Main reports that he has seen a large number of well-conditioned three and four-year-old trout. There is also in these waters an unusually late running of spawning fish, and many of those handled by Mr Main will not be ready for stripping for another six or eight days.