MUNDSEN'S POLAR PLIGHT.

Northern Advocate, 20 June 1925, Page 4

MUNDSEN'S POLAR PLIGHT.

i Even under the most favourable? | weather conditions, a flight to the- | North Pole is a most hazardous underj taking. .Just how hazardous it actually j is is realised by few, but Captain Hami mer's comments offer enlightenment. His opinion was given before the Flight had been completed and at a time when the world was anxiously awaiting news of Amundsen, believing that lie had been forced to land in the; Polar Sea. Captain Haakon Hammer is a Danish aviator, and accompanied j Captain Amundsen to within 400 miles' jof the Pole two years ago. He de- ( elared (according to cabled advice re-i j eeived en May 24) that landing in the I vicinity of the Pole must be suicidal, because of the rough ice. "Even if they managed to descend, how Gould they rise again " he asks. He tlinks that the Expedition lias not more tliau. one chance in a 100 of returning. „ "There are terrifying hummocks of ie& all about. If anything happens .to their aeroplanes they are gone, as water intervenes between the Polar region and" any route of escape to Alaska or Siberia.'' / In view of this, the intrenid Amundsen has surely added another remarkable success to his achievements bydoing the seemingly, impossible. The British Imperial Oil Co., Ltd.* were entrusted with the arrangement# for Petrol supplies, ' and "SHELL"' Spirit t as used bv Amundsen throughout his remarkable expedition. 114

, An effort is .being made by the Waitaki Acclimatisation Society to se* cure quail for liberation in the Oam* aru district (says the "North Otagd' Times")- There are quail at preen# at Waianakarua and Lindis. but they] are not by any means numerous . Gorse, stack and hedge fire seem' to be in the aseerdancy, but not often! are Dunediu firemen in demand toi' suppress such outbreaks while the snow! of winter is falling (remarks thai, "Star"). Members of the Dunediitt brigades responded the other njorning to an alarm. The flames, devouring , a hedge at the corner of Allnndnle and Forbury Roads, shot merrily upwards, incidentally causing clouds of smoke* but the firemen got busy with the) hosing and the fire was quickly ex* tinguished. * ! Cash <if TO'"' off nil over-* coats J ,or •• -ml v. Dobson's j Drapery. 635"