PERSONAL TRIBUTES.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13647, 12 February 1913, Page 6

PERSONAL TRIBUTES.

CAPTAIN SCOTT, BY THOSE WHO KNEW HIM.

Creymouth, Feb. 11. Gaptain Hender, of the U.S.S. Co.'s ELawhai, ix»r in port, m©t Captain Sco,tt on two occasions, the first eleven years ago. when Captain Hender was imo of too ship's company of the relief ship.' Morning, which took the stores •and other necessaries to the Discovery, meeting that vessel in latitude T^south at tho base of Mounts Terror andy Erebus. Tho Morning brought back to New Zealand-Lieutenant (now Sir Ernest Sliacklaton, who was invalided home, and nine others of the Discovery' sxr«w. Tho next tinne Captain Hender,, met Oapt. Soott in Lyttelton, was on his return to Now Zealand about a year lai>?r. "Captain Sopt.t was not a man to talk nm<jh' to-anyone," said Captain Hendel v tea'"Star" representative. 7'He neverM tholess "\ras a splendid fellow, extreme^ Iv popular, and greatly liked by every-' on© on board the ship—just the man for the job he had undertaken." Mr Hatiield, the second mate of ihe Kowhai, who was one of the Morning'© company on the second relief expedition ulao had the opportunity ,of noticing how Captain Soatfc was esteemed, admired, and loved by every man connected with the expedition.