CUT OFF BY SNOW.
PARTY IN TASMANIA. DANGEROUS SITUATION. HOB ART, July 13. The plight of a party of men, short of food and with deep snow cutting them off at the northern end of the Great Lake, is becoming serious. A telephone message stated that the snow was four feet deep iji places and that it was still snowing.
The men worn digging their way through at the rate of a mile a day, and hoped to meet a parly proceeding in a like manner from Dclora'ine.
Attempts to reach the men by car and launch arc useless, as the lake is frozen from end to end.
A rescue party will leave Deloraino today. The Great Lake is a narrow piece of water, and 18 miles long.
The (Ireat Lake is in (lie Centra! Highlands, at an altitude of 3800 ft., 30 miles south-west nf Launecslon. Deloraino is near tho south-eastern shore.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20307, 15 July 1929, Page 11
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