SCOTT’S EXPEDITION
THE SOLE SURVIVOR AN ADVENTUROUS CAREER (Peb United Peesc Association) AUCKLAND, February 15. A man who believes lie is the only survivor of Scott’s 1901 Arctic Expedition, -Mr W. I. Weller, returned from London without having traced his only brother. He ascertained that he has so many stepbrothers and step-sisters that he a b aa " doned the search. His book on his me 6 adventures will shortly be published in London. , .. Mr Weller ran away to sea at the age of 10 when his mother died 50 years ago. His father, a retired superintendent ot the London Fire Brigade, died five years ago, aged 95. He had been married five times, and had a large family by each wife, and it was a hopeless task to trace all of them. “ Only once previously did I return to London,’ Mr Weller said, “ and that was during the war, when my visit was so brief that I had no tune to trace members of the family.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22807, 17 February 1936, Page 10
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