MEN’S SORRY PLIGHT
CUT OFF BY SNOW. (Australian Press Association) (Received this day at 9.25 a.m.) HOBART, July 13. The plight of a patty of men short of food, nnd = with deep snow cutting them off at the northern end of the Great. Lake, is becoming serious. A telephone message stated the snow is four feet deep in places and it is still snowing. A party are digging a way through at a rate of a mile daily, and it is hoped to meet the party proceeding likewise from Deloraine. Attempts to reach the men by car and launch were useless. The lake is frozen from end to end. A rescue party is leaving Deloraine to-day. The Great- Lake is fourteen miles at its greatest width and eighteen miles long.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1929, Page 5
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130MEN’S SORRY PLIGHT Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1929, Page 5
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