CALL OF THE EAST
RANGOON TO MANDALAY
Although he has in mind taking up a small fruit farm in Tasmania, Captain J. P. Tindal, a master mariner with a long association with the route from Rangoon to Mandalay, is not quite sure whether to or not. After having plied the Irrawaddy River for thirty years, he is finding it difficult to settle down. He went to England, but decided to come down south, and is now visiting the Dominion.
The charm and the variety of the scenery he saw in the South Island made an impression on Captain Tindal, but all that he has seen apparently has not stifled the call of the. East. He confessed that, he would like to go "up the river" once again, although he thinks that if he did he probably would be disappointed. When he was there before he was commodore of a line, and now without a command he is without responsibilities. And he believes- that when a man has no responsibilities he does not matter.
The idea of the fruit farm in Tasmania has taken shape, but still, as he says, there is the call of the East.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1937, Page 7
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196CALL OF THE EAST Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1937, Page 7
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