FIVE YEARS' VOYAGE
MAKING HUNTING FILMS LONDON, Nov. 21. Tho topsail schooner Myonie B. Kirby (73 tons) will leave London tomorrow for a five years’ advonturo trip to Malaya, Australia, and tho South Sea Islands, for the purpose of making hunting films. Photography is the main object of the nine members of the expedition, who expect to he in Sydney a year lienee to relit before going to tho South Son Islands.
A .special compartment of the schooner is fitted for two photographers, who will make ft series of sharktisliing films. Air. W. Bryce Gibson and Herr Karl Borkke are the loaders of the party, six of whom axe Germans. A small Diesel engine is fitted to the ship, which is 50 years old, and has spent four years in tho Arctic.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18258, 29 November 1933, Page 5
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