FALL ON, SNOW SLOPE
(By Telegraph.)
(Spacfal to "The Evanini >*oit.")
CHRISTCHtmCH, This Day.
When Dr. Hilgendorf was hurt on Saturday he waa climbing in loose snow on the lower slopes of Mt. Bolleston. He was hurled down a snow gully a considerable distance by an avalanche, sustaining a sprained ankle and knee. Dr. Hilgendorf, with ■ a party of half a dozen students from Lincoln College, was on a botanical expedition wheu the snow collapsed, hurling Dr. Hilgendorf down. The students scrambled down after him, and, with great difficulty, carried him back up the gully and across the mountain side to Arthur's
A fossil tree, seventy feet long, and estimated to be a million years ok!, has been found in Bengal.
The Lower lfiitt Borough Council, on Usb recommendation of the Works Committee, decided lust evening to accept the tender of Messrs. John Chambers and Sons to supply the pump and motor for the Moiling water supply for £288.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 137, 7 December 1926, Page 10
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