IN ANTARCTICA

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1929, Page 3

IN ANTARCTICA

(By Russell Owen-—Copyrighted 192: ,y the New York Times Company, and t.. .Louis Roki Dispatch. All rights ior publication ivnCivod tliroiigimni he win Id. Wire 1 mss tn New Aoi l< limes.) A BUZZARD. United Press Association —By ICwtrir telegraph— Copyright! BAY OF WHALER. .Timm? 26. This is the worst blizzard we have had since last fall, the wil'd having stea'Mly freshmieu since morning t<* a gale that shakos the chimney pipes and rattles the ; stoves. It is drivin" before it all the loose snow which had fallen recently, making it smoother, in which things only a few yardaway are invisible. Harrison wont overland from he house the other day, for being th ■ mcteoiologist, lie is siiflieiciitly inter ested in the weather to tempt it occasionally. when everyone sticks t the tunnel. He missed the large bouse and wandered two or three hundred yards to the east, before real is ing he had overshot his mark. He then turned by the light on the nidi tower, wliic]| Byrd had put there -In: inst such an emergency, am! lie faun his way hack again anil finally stumh led over the house entrance, white was almost entirely concealed by snow, hut he managed to dig his win in and entered with his usual imw chulaiit manner, bi’;t covered with snow. The light is sixty feet high c some fact above Hie drifts So that i; is visible for a long way, when oh ierls on tli* ground are hidden Iron sbi-bt by the whirling curtain el white.