Cars Collide.
Two passengers were injured and two cars badly damaged in a collision at an intersection on the Takapau Plains. Those in hospital are Mrs. Rose Knight, Dannevirke, faciai wounds, laeerations, and shock; Mr. Stanley Jelley, schoolteacher, Dannevirke, head . injuries, coneussion, and shock. Messrs. C. G, Knight and R, P. Goddin, of Dannevirke, and Allan Fraser and G. S. .Stubbs, of Takapau, escaped with slight injuries. Alrs. Knight 's car capsized and was aJmost wrecked. Snow Cave, » -An aecount of the use of a snow cave instead of a tent bivouac in climbing Mount Aspiring, was given by Mr. P. 8. Powell to the Otago section of the New Zealand Alpine Club. On the expedition to Mount Aspiring, Otago 's lughest mountain, Air. Powell told how his party apent nine comfortable nights in their snow cave. A blizzard which raged for three days did not disturb them at all. The average temperature in the- cave was about 85 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit, and wi^ile the aipine cookers were going it rose to 60 dfeg«9*fl Fahrenheit. •
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 June 1948, Page 7
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