MORMON DOCTOR

Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 84, 3 January 1940, Page 12

MORMON DOCTOR

Bound For The South Pole Before Admiral Byrd's expedition sailed from "Wellington on Saturday for Dunedin and the Antarctic, members of the North Star’s company visited the Centennial Exhibition. Among them was the expedition’s surgeon, Dr. R. G. Frazier, an adherent of the Mormon religion, from Utah. Dr. Frazier, much of whose life has been spent in exploring the desert country of North America, is the surgeon of the Utah Copper Company, one of the largest copper-mining concerns in the world. At the Exhibition he visited (he Mormon exhibit, and meeting the three Mormon missionaries in charge of it. Afterward they were his guests at breakfast on board Hie North Star, before the vessel sailed. Dr. Frazier brought, with him from America two flags presented by the Salt Bake 'City Mormons, which are to be flown at Hie South Pole. To these he adedd in Wellington a copy "of the Book of Mormon, presented by the missionaries from the Exhibition, to be taken tc the Pole.

lie expressed Hie opinion that the Exhibition was an exceedingly fine show, strongly reminiscent of Hie recent Exposition in San Francisco.