A NOBLE TRIBUTE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 78, 15 March 1935, Page 5

A NOBLE TRIBUTE

Captain Scott’s Memory SUCH MEN NOT MADE NOW A moving and noble tribute to the memory of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his comrades, who died ou their way hack from the conquest of the South Pule, "as paid at the Hastings Rotary Club to-day by Captain Innes Taylor, a Canadian officer who accompanied Admiral Byrd on his two expeditions io the Antarctic. “You have spoken of Captain Scott,” ho said. Ami then he patu-ed for some moments as though lingering on the memory of a beloved comrade. Then ho said; “J have been twice now to the Antarctic, and ever ■since I was a boy 1 have admired him tremendously. In spite of my having been there twice, 1 still cannot see how he did it. To my way of thinking his journey was the most wonderful feat of endurance and courage that the world has ever known. I know we couldn t do it. ‘Whether it is that we have not the men to-day 1 do not know. 1 don't think they make them now. None ol us who have been to the Antarctic but led a deep respect —I might almost say a love—lot Captain Scott, lb pioneered Antarctic travel by his expedition in 1902, and most ot what we know to-day about travel in tin Antarctic regions we owe to him and hi-s companion*. '•