POLAR FARE.
WILKINS & BYRD TO MEET AT CHRISTMAS COMPLIMENTS PER RADIO United Press Association.—By Electric Telegrapti—Copyright (Received Tuesday, 8.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 19. Sir George Wilkins, speaking over the radio, said he was planning to partake of ni? dinner next Christmas with Commander Byrd in Little America. The broadcast was apparently picked up by Commander Byrd’s station, and the latter sent an immediate reply that the expedition would welcome Sir George Wilkins and a “Penguin’s Leg” would be saved, for him. “We have a couple of hundred seals for the winter. We are eating seal and whale now and like it,” the message adds.— (Australian Press Association.)
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Wairarapa Age, 20 March 1929, Page 5
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