SKI INSTRUCTOR AT QUEENSTOWN
AMERICAN EXPERT ARRIVES (New Zealand Press Association) TIMARU, May 19. Eleventh in the slalom and seventeenth in the downhill at the world ski-ing championship at Colorado in February. G. E. Butterfield, of Sun Val’ey. Idaho, has arrived in New Zealand as ski instructor for the season at Queenstown. Ski-ing in the United States, he said, had grown since the war and it was one of th* country’s most popular sports with 4.000.000 persons fakin'? nart. He said he had heard a lot of New Zealand’s snowfields and was anxious for the snow to arrive so he could try them out.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26117, 20 May 1950, Page 8
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