BUSINESS NOTICES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2540, 8 February 1923, Page 2

BUSINESS NOTICES.

Entries for the Fox ton styck sale, conducted by Messrs Abraham and Williams, to be held on Monday, are advertised in this issue.

Entries for the Awaliou Auctioneering Coy.’s Saturday mart sale are advertised in this issue.

Ladies who desire to make \old clothes and costumes as good as new, likewise gloves and feathers, would do well lo get into touch with Nielsen’s up-to-date Dye works, by ringing 5353 Palmerston North. Country orders receive prompt attention.

An interesting reference to Mount Egnioni: was made to an Oanmru

“Mail” representative by Mr 11. S. Williams, who was on Afount Egrnont for four years as manager of the two hostels there. Mount Egniont, he said, had always boon a very treacherous mountain. To the ordinary eye it looked easy to accomplish the trip to the summit, which is 8,200 ft. above sea level. But

.-he had exacted heavy toll from those who have taken liberties with her, and perhaps more lives have been lost there than on any other mountain in the Dominion. Even Air Samuel Turner, the man who lias conquered the principal mountains of tlie world, and written two hooks on Ins adventures, and who had been to the summit of Mount Cook twice —once by himself —was lost on this mountain, on one occasion, having to spend the night out, while parties were looking for him. Several lives were lost there during Air Williams’s term. The trouble generally comes about by a heavy fog enveloping the climbers, and thus (iiusing them to lose their hearings, (he many gorges and bluffs, apart from (he. crevasses in the snow, proving disastrous to the inexperienced climber. Air Williams made the ascent to the summit on 45 occasions, having lo act at one lime in t he capacity of guide.