FOR THE ANTARCTIC
BYRD’S EXPEDITION tu... CAREFUL PREPARATION [ Ter Press Association. 1 DUNEDIN, Oct. 5. Every mail brings news to Dunedin agents regarding the Byrd Antarctic expedition. Large shipments of foodstuffs and equipment are now cn route to Port Chalmers. They include 6 cases of tractors, 5 cases of tractor parts, 390 steel barrels of petrol, 844 cases of petrol, aeroplanes, 80 dogs, ponies, two Eskimos. 10,000 cigars, lOOOlbs of chewing tobacco. 12,0001bs of granulated sugar. 41 cases of cigircttcs, 49 cases of tobacco, and 42 boxes of fowls, while 3200 chickens have yet to bo shipped. Those form but part of thc lists supplied. Thousands of dozens of eggs arc purchased in New Zealand and arc now being put through thc Kassel process of sterilisation.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 9
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126FOR THE ANTARCTIC Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 9
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