BYRD’S BAD LUCK

Hokitika Guardian, 14 February 1929, Page 5

BYRD’S BAD LUCK

WITH WEATHER CONDITIONS. (By Russell Owen—Copyrighted 1929 by the New York Times Company, and St. Louts Post Dispatch. All rights for publication reserved throughout the world. ’ Wire'ess to New Yoik Times.) HAY OF WHALES, Feb. 12. The weather continues execrable. Wc are still beating up and down m a stiff nor-easter, waiting for the storm to pass. The barometer is going up, imt that doesn’t mean much sometimes down here. This is the seventh day of unrest, and it does not appear we shall get hack into the hay ice for some time. The ship is practically unloaded. One more day will finish the uoik. Our position is complicated by the fact that this long and unusual spell ol wind from the east and north has brought down a lot of heavy pack-ice from an unknown region above us, and so that we should not he caught between it and the hay ice and he squeezed, we have had to thread our way through the large floeS and get en. tirely outside the hay into the open sea. Tlie condition must be very unusual, for Amundsen’s Fram only put to sea twice during her stay here, whereas wc have lost track of the number of times wo have left the hay ice to avoid being crushed against it: by the sea.