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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 8 (December 1, 1928)

Buckeridge of the “Tilikum.”

Buckeridge of the “Tilikum.”

“There is one thing I would like,’ I said, before the party left the hotel. ‘I would like to have a companion in the boat if I can get one.”

“Mr. Buckeridge at this, said that he would accept the offer. So it was settled that Buckeridge was to be my mate in the dinghy.

“Next day (Friday) the Auckland papers published the news of my coming challenge to Waimangu. During that day dozens of people asked me not to attempt the feat of crossing the pool in a boat; it would be certain death, they said.

My reply to this was that it had to go through now that the newspapers throughout the country had taken it up and spread the story of my intended row on the geyser.

“On Saturday morning there was a big crowd at the Auckland railway station to see me off. A lot of people again asked me not to attempt the feat. I could only point to the little boat on the train.