FOR ANTARCTICA

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17108, 14 November 1929, Page 12

FOR ANTARCTICA

f; 1, t*y* '" -’ 1 ""■ 1 1 *9* #\ ;s’•/.** > BYRD’S SHIPS PREPARING ’VARSITY STUDENTS IN CREWS .lb should not, bo long, now before the ’Btfrd; expedition , ships, ifcl,e City of and the Eleanor Bolling, complete preparations for the southward journey to,, the ice (states a. Dunedin correspondent). When the Eleanor Bplhng.. sails it is probable that the ship’s complement wifi include two Canterbury C’ollege engineering students. Severe! Otago University students have also made application to join ■ the, expedition, but as yet no definite reply has been given then} as to joining one’.or other of the ship?. < SHIPS BEING DOCKED, Last week the City of New York was floated into dry dock, 1 where repairs are being'carried out in connection with the damage that was occasioned by pushing through 'the ice pack during her passage through last year. The vessel frequently camd into contact' with ice and in several* places tli© Sheathing has had to be replaced. Surprise* lias beerH eXptossed/ ‘however}' by Captain Melville, of the City of New York, that the ship should have sustained relatively .so little damage when the rough weather and heavy ice encountered were taken into consideration. A new m*v is being signed on and many,applications have been received front roving spirits who are desirous of making the trip to the barrier. Few of the volunteers, however, have the' qualifications that will enable them to be of any use on a sailing ship, and as the City of New York is sailing to the barrier in order to goiiserv© her coal supplies a careful selection will be made anil only men used to handling sail? will be chosen,. , T. .^ : ,C , , When ilia City of New York . comes out of dock the .Eleaqor Bolling will be docked for scraping} and other repairs, necessary wilj. be effected. A considerable. quantity.; of coal. and. • stores will be loaded at Dunedin and the ship will be ready to , sail . for the ice pa’ek as sopn .a Si advice received from Commander, Byrd that the; .conditions are suitable.- ; ,Bhe, wilf • join- the '.City of NeW York at ‘the ice pack and the two vessels will piss, through -together. STORES FOR SIR HUBERT .WILKfNS

By the hctipn of Ooinmaildei' jfyrd in granting-? permission fob' his ships' -to carry-urgent iuails to the whalers Neileon Alonso, Kosmos, 0. A. Larsen, .and Sir James Clark Ross, the whalers foi' the first time will be enabled to obtain letters in the; middle of the season, although, of course, the* inail will have to be limited, owing to the space restrictions oil . the expedition ships'; . The City of New York and Eleanor Bolling will also carry,a small quantity of stores, petrol j&nfl pbjitbqns for aeroplanes for Sir Hubert Wjljkliis, who' will bo irr the Antarctic with his ship, th© Melville. The - ice coTKlitions will not permit the expedition ships' to reaiSh the hdse at Little 1 America„for ‘'-’Christ. HP, and it wilFbe welf ! on*ih Jamiqry, before'the Christmas 'mails reach those ■ tvlio * have.'been off' the. ice barrier for* the past 12" months. 3 v V- > „