Sir Paul wants wife on Ice
The Governor-General, Sir Paul Reeves, said he would like to go to Antarctica again, but he would like to take his wife with him next time. He visited the historic huts of Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton on the Ice last summer and has since become the patron of the Antarctic Heritage Trust. “Surely there is a plaque that needs placing somewhere,” he told members of the trust executive yesterday. "And only the patron, accompanied by his wife, could
do it,” he joked. Sir Paul made a brief visit to the Antarctic wing of the Canterbury Museum yesterday. The vice-chairman of the trust, Mr Richard McElrea, presented the Gov-ernor-General with a copy of the letters of ordination of the first Antarctic padre, the Rev. Arnold Patrick Spencer Smith, who was in Antarctica in 1914. The trust was established earlier this year to fund and organise the restoration and preservation of the historic huts on the Ice.
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