DAY OF TOIL

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 1 February 1929, Page 5

DAY OF TOIL

, BYRD’S PARTY BUSY. AFTERMATH OF ICE CRASH. RUSH JOB ON THE-POLLING. By Russell Owen, copyrighted, 1928; by the “New York Times" company and "St. Louis Post and Despatch.". AH rights, for publication reserved through the world. Wireless to “New York Times." Received 12 noon to-day. BAY OF WHALES, Jan. 31. To-day is one of hard work for eve?y member of the expedition to make tip for loss of our dock. The ships are moored alongside the low Barrier edge, which rises here only to the level of the Eleanor Boiling’s, bridge, and uidoadinjgj is being rushed as fast as possible to get the three-motored Fokker, one of our heaviest and bulkiest pieces of equipment, out of the hold before we are forced to move.. Supplies fotr Wild’s party of Mawson’s expedition were landed an this way in the Shackleton ice. shelf, and Commander Byrd lias been quick to seize a similar opportunity. All materials are beixts moved back, uailiong the trail nearly a mile, so that they may be picked up later on and ihonledl to the base. The Fokker is being taxied inland.

The break up of the bay of ice yesterday came as the result of a heavy e.:l the night, before. Our trail over which iso much good sledging work was done is now going seaward in a thousand pieces. We have even seen some of the flags used to malm the trail sailing, by on cakes of ice. The -bay is full of sma|U bergs, which have broken off to the south and north: of us. We have, several time's iseen that interesting phenomena the calving or birth of an iceberg. '' ;