FAME OF DUNEDIN

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17238, 19 April 1930, Page 4

FAME OF DUNEDIN

PUBLICITY IN AMERICA ANTARCTIC-CONSCIOUS The finest type of advertisement is being given Duuedin in America for the generous way in which tho city opened its doors to the Byrd Antarctic expedition. In 1500 newspapers in the LTnited States messages from Dunedin have appeared at regular intervals since the expedition returned to Otago harbor under the heading of "Duuedin." The following article, undoubtedly written in the New York office, appears in the Sun: "That Dunedin, New Zealand, should give so rousing a reception to Rear-Admiral Richard E. Byrd and the members of his Antarctic expedition after 14 months of exploration is not surprising. The people arc a hardy race, the descendants of. Scottish pioneers, and they are moreover what might he called Antarctic-conscious; for from nearby Bluff, the most southerly port of the Dominion, an occasional iceberg may bo seen." When New Zealand was being settled, the article proceeds, the English went to Canterbury province or to regions further north. The Scoteh Presbyterians lit with joy upon Otago, in the far south, where they found plenty of mist and rain in addition to grand austere scenery, which reminded them of their native Highlands. They conferred upon their capital the ancient name of Edinburgh, and lost no time in sotting up Burns clubs, Caledonian societies and bagpipe bands. "The shores of the harbor in which the City of New York and the Eleanor Boiling anchored are wooded and hilly, and appropriately plenty of granite enters into the construction of the buildings. The population is growing steadily. It was around 00,000 twenty years ago, but it now numbers 85,000. From Duuedin the first cargo of frozen meat exported was dispatched to London in 1881."