SEARCH FOR COPY

Hokitika Guardian, 9 March 1932, Page 2

SEARCH FOR COPY

TRIP IN WINDJAMMER. WIDELY TRAVELLED AUTHOR. WELLINGTON, March 7. Having sailed the seven seas or most of them in hig search for “copy/’ Mr A, J, Villers, author of several well-knowi). sea stories; and novels, has undertaken yet another voyage, He arrived to-day by the Makura en route to Sydney and South Australia, where he will join the four-masted barque Parma, in which he has a halfinterest, and then will 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 Villers. It is- not so many years ago that he sailed round Cape Horn in a barque bound for Falmouth, and only seven years hack he was a member of a whaling expedition to the Antarctic in the Sir James 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 and scenery. He has already taken one such film, but in his opinion it was rather spoilt by the insertion of a “ilove interest.” This time lie says there won’t he anything like that if he can help it. The Parma, Mr latest ship, is a square rigged vessel. It is loading at present in South Australia, and it will wait for Mr Villiers and liis companion to arrive before it sets sail for Falmouth. The only complaint Mr Villiers had to make was that all the way round the world he had been pestered by youths, and girls too, who wanted to go with him on liis trip. “In New York I had to hire an office staff to deal with all sorts of correspondence like this,” lie said.