“WILL STAY HERE ALL MY LIFE.”

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18684, 13 February 1929, Page 1

“WILL STAY HERE ALL MY LIFE.”

EXPEDITION MANAGER LIKES NEW ZEALAND

“ I think enough of it to stay here all my life,” said Mr R. G. Brophy, second in command and business manager of the Byrd expedition, in reply to a reporter’s query as to how he liked New Zealand.

Mr Brophy said that he would probably make his. home in Auckland, where he was to spend next summer. He had several business interests in the Dominion.

Mr Brophy left this morning by the first express south to meet the Eleanor Bolling, the supply ship of the expedition, at Dunedin, where some last minute supplies are to be taken aboard. Included amongst the cargo to be picked up are another aeroplane, two automobiles. two large crawler tractors similar in type to the war-time tanks, four portable houses. 8000 gallons of aviation spirit, 4000 gallons of kerosene and a large quantity of food, oil, grease, etc. The Eleanor Bolling is now four hundred miles off. having run into bad weather which has delayed her arrival at Dunedin until to-morrow.

Questioned regarding future movements Mr Brophy said that after his business in Dunedin was completed, he would spend a fortnight’s holiday—the first he had had in ten years—on a fishing expedition in the North Island.