FRANK WILD’S LOSSES
ANTARCTIC EXPLORER RUINED. COTTON-GROWING UNSUCCESSFUL. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received July 17, 7 p.m. Sun Cable London, July 16. Commander Frank Wild, member of the Scott, Shackleton and Mawson Antarctic expeditions, has spent the past four years in an unsuccessful cottongrowing enterprise and his capital is gone, reports the Johannesburg correspondent of the Daily Mail. Ho is noiy a barman at the village Collar, in the northernmost point in Zululand, earning £4 per month. Drought rained most of his fellow farmers and Commander Wild was the last to give up.
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 July 1929, Page 11
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