EULOGY FROM THE OFFICERS OF THE KOWHAI.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14588, 12 February 1913, Page 10

EULOGY FROM THE OFFICERS OF THE KOWHAI.

(PJtESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM ) GREYMOUiH, February 11. Captain Hender, of tho Union Steam Ship Company's Kowhai, now in port, says he met Captain Scott on two occasions, the first time 11 years ago, when Captain Hender was ono of the ship's company of the relief ship Morning, ,' which took stores and other necessaries ' to the Discovery, meeting that vessel in latitude 79dcg south at the base of . Mounts Terror and Erebus. The Morn- ' ing brought back to New Zealand Lieut, (now Sir Ernest) Shackleton, who was invalided home, and nine others of the Discovery's crew. The next timo that Captain Hender met Captain Scott i was in Lyttelton on his return to New j Zealand about a year later. "Captain Scott was not a man to talk much to ! anyone," said Cantain Hender to a i "Star" representative. "He, nevertheless, was a splendid fellow, extremely popular and greatly liked by everyone on board his ship. He was just* the man for the job he had undertaken." The second officer of the Kowhai, Mr Hatfield, one of the Morning's company on her second relief expedition, also had an opportunity of noticing how Captain Scott was esteemed, admired, and loved by every man connect- j ed with the expedition.