PARTY CUT OFF BY SNOW
POSITION BECOMES SERIOUS GREAT SNOWSTORM IN TASMANIA LAKE COMPLETELY FROZEN OVER. By Telegraph—Press .Assn. —Copyright. Hobart, July 13. The plight of a party of men, short of food and with deep snow cutting them off at the northern end of Great Lake, is becoming serious. A telephone message stated that the snow was four feet deep in places and that it was still snowing. The party were digging their way through at the rate of a mile daily, and hoped ro meet a party proceeding likewise from Deloraine.
Attempts to reach the men by car and launch are useless. The Jake is frozen from end to end. A rescue party is leaving Deloraine to-day. Great Lake is fourteen miles at its greatest width and 18 miles long;
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1929, Page 11
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