RAGING BUZZARD

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 700, 27 June 1929, Page 9

RAGING BUZZARD

BYRD CAMP CURTAINED IN FLYING SNOW MAN MISSES HIS WAY BY KUSSELL, OWEN Copyrighted, 1928. by the “New York Times" company and the St. Louis “PostDispatch.” All rights for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless to th« “New York Times.” Received 10.30 a.m. BAY OF WHALES. Tuesday. The worst blizzard we have had since last fall has come, the wind having steadily freshened since the morning to a gale that shakes the chimney pipes and rattles the stoves. It is driving before it ail the loose snow which has fallen recently, making a smother in which things only a few yards away are invisible. Dr. Harrison went overland from his house the other day, for, being a meteorologist, he is sufficiently interested in the weather to tempt it occasionally when almost everyone sticks to the tunnel. He missed the large house and wandered 200 or 300 yards to the east before reaWalng that he had overshot his mark. Then he turned and by the light on the radio lower which Commander Byrd had put there for just such an emergency, he found his way back again and finally stumbled over the house entrance, which was almost entirely concealed by snow. But he managed to dig his way in, and entered with his usual nonchalant manner. The light is 60ft high and some feet above, the drift, so that it is visible fur a long way when objects on the *■— und are hidden from sight by the whirling curtain of white.