WAITING FOR ICE TO BREAK
ELEANOR.,BOLLING TO RETURN;■' FURTHER COAL SUPPLY NEEDED. (Copyright.—From Russel Owen). ■. . Bay of Jan. 28. After a conference by wireless between Bcndik Johnson, ice-pilot for the City of New York and the Eleanor Bolling Roan-Admiral Byrd has agreed with the skippers of both ships to transfer the Eleanor Bolling’s coal to the City of New York and to send the Eleanor Bolling back to New Zealand for another cargo. It is a long trip from Dunedin to the edge of the ice-pack, and if the ships were compelled to wait another ten days or a fortnight for the ice to move they would use. up most of the available fuel. Johnson says that the whaling captains agree with him that the ice conditions this year are unique. The pack is very heavy from 08 to 70 degrees south and extends west towards the western shore of the Balleny Islands, so that there is a stretch of 120 miles o ice heavily packed, that must break up’to some extent before the ships even try to get through.
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Taranaki Daily News, 31 January 1930, Page 11
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