The Last Journey
"NTEAR Scott was a lamp formed from a tin, and some lamp-wick. . . It had been used to burn the little methylated spirit which remained. I think that Scott had used it to help him to write up to the end. I feel sure that he had died last-and once I had thought that he could not go so far as some of the others. We never realised how strong that man was, mentally and physically, until now." As he wrote, Apsley CherryGarrard, assistant zoologist to Dr. Wilson on the expedition, must have remembered the happier time when the Terra Nova put in to Port Chalmers on Sunday, November 27, 1910. Next day Scott saw Mr. Walker, the Mayor of Dunedin, attended a dance at the home of W.*F. Edmund, and had dinner at the Fernhill Club. On Wednesday, November 30, the Terra Nova with her crew of bronzed, hardy "young lions," as the Evening Star’s reporter called them, went down the harbour, escorted by the Omakura, the Lady Roberts and the Waikana, besides a great number of yachts and other small craft. The tug Plucky cast off her lines and at 3.20 p.m, the Terra Nova left New Zealand.
Scott’s Last Port, a programme arranged by Charjles Joye and produced by Norman Griffiths to commemorate the 43rd anniversary of Captain Scott’s departure from Port Chalmers will be heard from 4YC at 8.30 p.m. on Monday, November 29.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 801, 26 November 1954, Page 16
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240The Last Journey New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 801, 26 November 1954, Page 16
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