A BEARDED CREW
The crew on arrival were quaintly nondescript in tonsorial adornment. Beards conformed to many fashions, and some wore plain ■whiskers. It was evident that the City of New York’s equipment did not include a luxurious hairdressing saloon, but all tbo same there were clean chins testifying to good razors being on hoard. All were pleased to reach New Zealand. Many of them were first voyagers, responding to the call of the ice-bound Antarctic, and they were all under the spell of distant places and high adventure. “ Well, perhaps a little seasickness,” Captain Melville replied grimly, when a reporter asked him whether any sea illness had been experienced on the run to Now Zealand. “An unpleasant malady,” queried the reporter. “ Uh, huh I” replied the captain.
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Evening Star, Issue 20033, 26 November 1928, Page 9
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128A BEARDED CREW Evening Star, Issue 20033, 26 November 1928, Page 9
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