BAY OF WHALES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 104, 2 April 1929, Page 7

BAY OF WHALES.

EASTER IN EXTREME COLD.CAMP NOW IN GOOD SHAPE. (By Russell Owen, copyright 1928 by the New York Times Company; and the St. Louis Post Dispatch; all rights for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless to the Ne>v York Times.) BAY OF WHALES, March 31. This being Easter Sunday there is no work. The camp is getting into such good shape that a day off weekly will be possible, whether or not there are blizzards that make work out of doors impossible. Everyone is reading or attending to personal effects). It is 28 degrees below zero, .so strolls on the Barrier are not part of the Sunday programme. There is no Easter parade here, and if there were it is not likely that fashions would prove popular. At home there is one fashion which would certainly be frowned upon. Many or us have cut off our hair and shaved our heads. The idea is to see if it will prevent those bald spots which are threatening our appearance —although some are doing it just for fun. The T-esult is amusing, for some have luxuriant whiskers of all colours and designs, and the contrast with the shaven heads makes an ensemb’e which one’s nearest relatives would not recognise. At night one sees a group of youthful, but bald, men holding a book with one hand and meditatively rubbing their crowns witih the other like venerable members of a sedate club. At least it feels good. Moreover, there is no one dowu.here to care what wo look like.