DISTINGUISHED VISITOR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 January 1940, Page 7

DISTINGUISHED VISITOR

DOCTOR FRAZIER OF BYRD EXPEDITION. AN EXHIBITION INCIDENT Among the many members of the Byrd Expedition for the South Pole who visited the Centennial Exhibition during their stay in Wellington was Dr R. G. Frazier, who is doctor for the whole expedition and is travelling south in the North Star with Admiral Byrd. Doctor Frazier has spent much of his life in exploration in the desert country of America and is the surgeon for the Utah Copper Company, one of the largest copper mining concerns in the world. At the Exhibition he made a point of meeting three young Mormons, who are doing missionary service in New Zealand and who are in charge of the Mormon exhibit. With him he brought from Utah two flags presented to the Byrd Expedition by Mormons in Salt Lake City. The flags will be flown at the South Pole by the expedition. The young Mormon missionaries were the guests of Dr Frazier at breakfast on the North Star before the ship sailed for Dunedin, and they presented him with the Book of Mormon, first to be sent to the South Pole. Dr Frazier considered that the Exhibition was an exceedingly fine show and strongly reminiscent of that staged at San Francisco.