TASMAN GLACIER ICE FOR NEW YORK.—The pilot of the ski-equipped aircraft which landed on the Tasman glacier last Wednesday, Mr Don Middleton, helps load one of the three 60lb blocks of ice which are being shipped to New York where the Overseas Press Club will give a New Zealand dinner next month. A home freezer was taken to the Hermitage on the back of a truck. The men then flew up the glacier in the aircraft, and found some good clear ice at 7000ft. Seventeen hours after starting out they were back in Ashburton with the ice safely in the home freezer at minus 10 degrees. It was flown to, Auckland and shipped in the Mariposa at the weekend.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28537, 17 March 1958, Page 16
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119TASMAN GLACIER ICE FOR NEW YORK.—The pilot of the ski-equipped aircraft which landed on the Tasman glacier last Wednesday, Mr Don Middleton, helps load one of the three 60lb blocks of ice which are being shipped to New York where the Overseas Press Club will give a New Zealand dinner next month. A home freezer was taken to the Hermitage on the back of a truck. The men then flew up the glacier in the aircraft, and found some good clear ice at 7000ft. Seventeen hours after starting out they were back in Ashburton with the ice safely in the home freezer at minus 10 degrees. It was flown to, Auckland and shipped in the Mariposa at the weekend. Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28537, 17 March 1958, Page 16
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