Govt officials took food, clothing - activist

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Tue, 21 Feb 2012 6:20p.m.

r Noble went to Antarctice to bless the area where the men died

r Noble went to Antarctice to bless the area where the men died

By Amanda Gillies

A Maori activist on board a yacht illegally in Antarctica has told his family his supplies have been taken by Government officials.

Busby Noble said his food, diesel and clothing were taken from Scott Base, but Antarctica New Zealand denies the claim.

Mr Noble set sail for Antarctica a month ago with self proclaimed viking Jarle Andhoy, despite not having permits for the trip.

Last night he rang from the yacht to say their supplies had been taken by Government officials from Scott Base.

His partner of 20 years, T P Teiho, says she was “okay until I got last night’s phone call”, when she says she realised Mr Noble may never return home.

Mr Noble “is angry with the New Zealand Government for doing such an inhumane thing,” she says.

“He is frozen - there's no clothes, there's no food. He just wants to get home.”

However, Antarctica New Zealand CEO Lou Sanson says the claims aren’t true, and he has “no idea why [Mr Noble] is making these statements”.

Mr Sanson says staff recent packed up Andhoy’s equipment from his trip to Antarctica a year ago, when three of his fellow adventurers died in a storm and disappeared without a trace.

Mr Sanson says after writing to Andhoy for six months, he told him “if he didn't pick it up from the 31st of January we would put it on a ship coming north”.

“That is exactly what we have done.”

With the gear safely in Christchurch, Antarctica New Zealand doesn’t know why Andhoy returned to the ice, especially now the weather is turning. Mr Noble accompanied him to bless the area where the men died.

Ms Teiho says she just wants to tell Mr Noble to come home, and to “tell the New Zealand Government to go get him”.

Antarctica New Zealand said it would help if needed, but stressed it would be difficult and expensive.

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16 Mar 2012 10:39a.m.

aurora aust wrote:

"Busby Noble said his food, diesel and clothing were taken from Scott Base" Jarle Andhøy is a professional celebrity, a living work of fiction, and Busby Noble has been recruited (amidst a web of contradictory stories put about by Jarle as to how this happened) into a mobile reality-TV media circus which is the laughing stock of real sailors and explorers, and which relies for its popularity on controversy, fueled by insinuation, innuendo and outright lies. Busby has been misled. It is not possible that 'his' clothes and food had ever been at Scott Base. Presumably he is actually referring either to the stuff abandoned by Jarle when he made his ignominious departure after Berserk sank a year earlier, which was eventually sent to NZ after Jarle ignored attempts to make other arrangements, or to the depots which Jarle presumes Berserk put ashore, somewhere along the Ross Sea coastline, in his absence. He doesn't know what was left, where or when, if anything. The Ross sea is nearly as big as Western Europe. I feel sadness for Busby for allowing himself to be taken in. Unfortunately his own credibility suffers when he repeats Jarle's vile slander.

26 Feb 2012 11:31p.m.

jade hiku wrote:

hi my name is jade hiku buzzby noble is my god father he is not a liar and he has never disrepected anyone in my whole life but he has his strong beliefs in what our people as maori stand for and our ways triditionally he was out there doing the right thing and now the goverment has disrespected him and taken everything how is he suppose to get home he was doing something to help others and this is the way that is treated were is the help that he needs from the goverment and the people that are to blame

21 Feb 2012 07:21p.m.

Jim Seaview wrote:

Quote:'"Mr Noble “is angry with the New Zealand Government for doing such an inhumane thing,” she says.“He is frozen - there's no clothes, there's no food. He just wants to get home.”
However, Antarctica New Zealand CEO Lou Sanson says the claims aren’t true, and he has “no idea why [Mr Noble] is making these statements”.

I believe Mr Lou Sanson.

If Mr Busby Noble wanted to go for a holiday, and he chose to go with a with self proclaimed viking Jarle Andhoy, despite not having permits for the trip, terrific - it was his decision. Mr Noble was not hi-jacked or kidnapped - he volunteered to go on this vacation and by all accounts - he was ill equipped. He could have chosen Westport or Ekatahuna where the climate would be a lot kinder to him. But no its "Hi HO Hi Ho its off to Antarctica we go". Now that he has two cold feet, he now wants the hard earning taxpayer of NZ to help retrieve him and send him home Tauranga. Another Tosser with his hand out.
Start fishing or swimming!!!!