WINTER CONDITIONS.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18200, 26 February 1929, Page 2

WINTER CONDITIONS.

IN THE ANTARCTIC. B f Telex."...!,—Pros. X ..oeiotion. WELLINGTON, Feb. 25. Judging from a radio message received in Wellington early tins morning from Jlr It. U. Brophy. of Commander Bvrd’s Antartic expedition, who is aboard the Eleanor Bolling, now “Y®” days out from l’ort Chalmers, on her way to tho Boy of Wales, winter conditions are setting in unusually early this year m the Antarctic. . , ’ jir Brophy .whose message is tuned in n m on Sunday, says: \\ e nuvt intercepted a from the City of New York, directed to the ‘New Sizing oveV ofwhalel, Ims driven the ship out. She reported that she was proceeding with great difficulty tiiroimh ice more than six inches thick, last night. She has twenty men on hoard; the balance have been put ashore for the winter period. We are proceeding under forced draught with a towline, to her aid. If we hud her I we hope to proceed with the ! Eleanor Bolling to Discovery Inlet i and discharge cargo for Commander i Bwd to pick up next spring. “In ordinary times ib is not usual | for trhe sea to freeze over near the I ice barrier until nearly the end ot March. In 1912 the Terra Nova did not leave Scott’s winter quarters in MoMurdo Sound until early in March, and she cleared the ice pack on her return to Lyttelton on March 21.”