His Quest
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Heyerdahl Returns to His Quest
THOR HEYERDAHL, leader of the Norwegian 1947 Kon Tiki Expedition, returned to Guaya quil, Ecuador, on March 22, after visiting the Galapagos Is. He said that he had found in the Gala pagos further evidence to support his contention that South Ameri can Indians had migrated west wards into the Pacific. He also de clared that, since the Kon Tiki voyage, he had experimented fur ther with simple log rafts and had found that, by varying the depth of half a dozen centre-board keels,
it was possible even to beat into the wind. He said there seemed little doubt that the South American Indians did employ such keels on their rafts. *Mr. C. B. V. Wheeler, Sydney branch manager of the Union SS Co., retired on March 31, after 48 years of service. He was Purser in the old Navua, on the Fiji run, prior
to World War I, and he went from that position to join the Ist NZ Expeditionary Force. He rejoined the Co. in 1920, and was stationed in Wellington until 1934; Auckland thence until 1936; and later at Melbourne and Sydney. Mr. W. (“Billy”) Hancock, from the Mel bourne office, and formerly man ager at Suva, succeeds Mr. Wheeler in the Sydney position.