BOLLONS AND KIME.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11249, 29 June 1922, Page 3

BOLLONS AND KIME.

THEIR FINE COMRADESHIP. MR F. W. VOSSELER PAYS A TRIBUTE. When it was proposed that a letter be sent to him, appreciating the heroism of his recent feat in the Tararua mountains, Air F. W. Vosseler declined the honour, unless, he said, the other members of that expedition could share it along with him. Some of them, he said, deserved it equally as much as ho did/ and some of them more so.

He then paid a very high tribute to the courage and comradeship of Bollons and Kime, who, he said, must have been as fine fellows as. one could meef. Speaking of the finding of Bollons, at the hut, where the party came upon him as he lay, unconscious and delirious, the first words of the young fellow were, said Air Vosseler: (“Where’s my mate, Kime?” Similarly, when Kime was discovered and brought round to consciousness, his first words were: . “Where’s Bollons?’’ The concern of those two young fellows for each other was a very fine and touching thing. Kime, when he was found lying on the slopes in the snow, had made it quite plain to all the members of the party that Bollons had not gone of his own free will, but at the wish of Kime himself. Bollons had gone, at Kime’s wish, to try and obtain assistance for both f them.

The two young fellows were, said Air Vosseler, in a terrible plight. They reasoned the thing out, and had come to the only sane and sensible conclusion they could possibly bave come to. Bollons did the right thing in leaving his mate in those circumstances, and in going for assistance; and Air Vosseler hoped that every thinking person would do justice to Bollons and recognise the facts as they were.