SOUTH AMERICA BY MOTOR BOAT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20832, 26 September 1929, Page 13

SOUTH AMERICA BY MOTOR BOAT.

PARSON-SKIPPER. (From Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, August 15, Mr J. Woodcock, a veteran, of merely' 70, has decided to travel from England and. up the Amazon in a 70-foot motor boat. A chance friendship made on the voyage, from New' ; Zealand to Southampton by the Corinthic decided bin} to undertake this adventurous voyage. _ Mr Woodcock, an engineer by .profession, said to ,a Daily Chronicle correspondent: “ I formed the acquaintance,on the voyage of the Rev. A. W. Benton, who is a missionary. He told ine lie was going to the* upper reaches of the Amazon in a 70-fopt-motor launch, and'the upshot was that I took a post as his engineer. The parson will be the skipper; “We hope to strike a. patch of nice weather, and if we reach South America safely, we shall make the trip up ■ the Amazon to the remote part of the upper reaches, where Mr Benton is to carry on his missionary work.”

_Mr Woodcock said that he left England 45 years ago for Wellington, but did not reach'that place until immediately before joining the Cbrinthic.

“ I went _ ashore at Hobart,” he explained, “missing rejoining the ship by a few minutes, and found work at that port.”

Though he had since visited many parts of New Zealand and Australia, he" added he had never until the Corinthic’s call set loot in the town-which was his destination when he sailed from England in ISB4