PUBLIC LOOKS OVER NORTH STAR
PLANE AND SNOW CRUISER ATTRACT BOYS
(United Press Association)
WELLINGTON, December 28. Rear-Admiral R. E. Byrd’s ship, the North Star, was generously thrown open to tire public today. They were pushing and scrambling aboard in amazing numbers and it was difficult to move about.
Every part not roped off was full of children, young and old, plying patiept officers with innumerable silly questions, peering inside cabins, patting huskies, which were greatly admired. Boys generally were more taken with the big Curtiss Condor biplane on the afterdeck and the snow-cruiser with its enormous tyres. Rear-Admiral Byrd received a number of officials aboard. Later he visited ihe acting Prime Minister (the Hon. P. Fraser) to whom he extended an invitation to visit the ship. He lunched with the High Commissioner for the United Kingdom, Sir Harry Batterbee.
Though the time of sailing has not been fixed, the ship is expected to leave tomorrow morning.
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Southland Times, Issue 24011, 29 December 1939, Page 4
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