ECLIPSE EXPEDITION
WRECK USED FOR FIREWOOD. Received June 1, 9.55 a.m. SYDNEY, June 1. A radio message from the solar eclipse expedition says: “AH is well ana we are becoming acclimatised. The heat and living conditions are not as severe as we anticipated. We are using wreck timber lor firewood in an improvised steel stove made from a mast carried half a mile, apparently in a hurricane. “This afternoon for an hour and a r half the Americans broadcast a dedication service and description of the life on Canton Island and personal messages from members of both parties. Sailors from both warships gathered before the Memorial Day monument, a concrete pyramid four leet high. The service was conducted by Father McNally and the prayer said by Captain Hcllweg, The monument was dedicated to “All Men of All Ships and All Men of Good Faith who have gone before us and who have Made Our Progress PussibJe.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 154, 1 June 1937, Page 8
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