MRS SCOTTS PRECEDENCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 48, 25 February 1913, Page 5

MRS SCOTTS PRECEDENCE.

RANK AS WIDOW OF C.B. (Received 10 a.m.) LONDON", February 24. It has been officially announced that His Majesty the King has been pleased to grant the widow of the late Captain Scott the same rank of precedence as if her husband had been nominated Commander of the Bath, an honour which was to have been conferred upon him had he lived.

A MEMOSIAL FUND.

(By Telegraph.—Own Correspondents CFTRISTCHURCH, this day. At a smajl public meeting yesterday, a committee was set up to promote a national New Zealand memorial to Captain Scott and his companions. The sum of £40 was subscribed in the room.

JM3J. WRENCB7S TRIBUTE.

At the meeting under xhe auspices of the Overseas Club, held in the Town Hall last evening, Mr Evelyn Wrench, honorary organiser of the club, made feeling reference to the disaster that overtook Captain Scott and his party on their return journey from the South Pole. He mentioned that Mrs Scott would arrive in Wellington on Thursday next, and it would be a good opportunity for the Auckland branch of the Overseas Club to express its sympathy with her in the terrible calamity that had overtaken her. The death of Captain Scott came home to him very keenly, because he had bad the pleasure of Captain Scott's friendship for fourteen years. It had been his privilege to lunch with Captain Scott, just before the latter took his departure from London. • and he wellremembered Capt. Scott saying: "I must get to the South Pole before 1 . die." Capt. Scott had achieved his purpose, but he had done more—how much more they were only beginning to realise. He had shown that Britishers could die as true Britishers should. Mr Wrench then read an extract from Oapt. Scott's final message to the public, which, he stated, would be remembered for all time. That message, he sa.id, was an example to Britishers the world over to do their duty and to help one another when the necessity arose. In the words of the poet it should be remembered "That we are sprung from earth's best blood and have titles manifold."

A resolution of eynrnathy was then carried, those present standing in silence for half a minute.