SEARCH FOR COPY.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20490, 8 March 1932, Page 13

SEARCH FOR COPY.

TRIP IN WINDJAMMER. [THE PBESS Special. Service.] ! WELLINGTON, March 7. Having sailed the seven Beas or most of ihem in his search for '"copy," Mr A. J. Villiero, author of several well-known sea stories and novels, has undertaken yet another voyage. Ho arrived , to-day by the Makttra ■ erf route to Sydney and South Australia, where he will join the four-masted barque Parma, in which he has a halfinterest, and then will set sail for. Falmouth, via Cape Horn, with a cargo of wheat. He will be accompanied by Mr Lambert Knight, an American yachtsman, who also was a passenger by the Makura. , ' There are few authors who so wholeheartedly go about getting their "copy" as Mr Villiers. . It is not so many years ago that he sailed round Cape Horn, in a barque bound for Falmouth,; and only seven years back he was a member of a whaling expedition to the Antarctio in the Slr Jamcs Clark Ross. On his trip to Falmouth he based his book "Falmouth for Orders," and a. more recent publication is "Seadogs of To-day." On the trip he is making this year Mr Villiers intends to take sufficient moving pictures to make a film of life and incidents arid scenery. He has already taken one such film, but in his opinion it was rather . spoilt by the. insertion of a "love This time he says there won' t be "anything like that if he can help it. ....... The Parma, Mr Villiers's latest ship, is a square rigged vessel. It is loading at present in South Australia, and it will wait for Mr Villiers apd his companion to arrive before it sets sail for Falmouth. The only complaint Mr Villiers had to make was that &1J the way round the world he had been pestered by youths, and girls too, who wanted to go with him on his trip. "In New York I had to hire an office staff to deal with all sorts of correspondence like this," he said,