THE DASH FOR THE POLE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3148, 27 March 1909, Page 5

THE DASH FOR THE POLE.

' WOULD HAVE SUCCEEDEP IF FOOD SUFFICIENT. By Telegraph —Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, March 26. One of the features of the equipment in connection with Lieut. Shackbton's expedition was the inclusion of a Kinematograph. It recorded the unloading of the stores from the Nimrod in a blizzard, the arrival in Lyttelton Harbour, the starting of the sledge parties, and actions of seals and sea leopards. The most interesting picture of all was of the penguins—the quaintest of birds. Dr. P. Marshall, in charge of the kinematograph, states that the results were highly satisfactory. He used over 4,000 feet of films; about 2,000 have been given up to penguins alone, and over 1,000 feet have been developed. From the scientific point of view the pictures will be the means of adding very argely to the world's knowledge of the habits of Antarctic animals. Mr Wild, one of the southern party that was les3 than one hundred miles from the pole, gave a reporter some fragmentary impressions. "The principal drawback to the whole of the trip," he said, "was the extreme shortness of food. We were out one hundred and twenty-six days on ninety-one days' rations. We were as f.hin as rakes. Our allowance, whieh consisted of pemmican biscuits, was to have been thirty hree ourues dally, but at one time it was cut down bv m:arly hal That for snmp wesk^." "Yes " akK-i.l Mr Wild, in reply to a q -s i n, "we couii i ave got the other n netv-srven miles to the Pole, but w couldn'c hav> got back Wj w;i'o running so many risks at the t'me."