Antarctic pony puzzle from past

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34087, 26 February 1976, Page 1

Antarctic pony puzzle from past

Mystery surrounds these pony crampons, which were brought back from Scott Base recently aboard the American supply ship Private John R. Towle.

Mr C. Monteith, a field officer with the Antarctic Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, said they “turned up” at Scott Base, three years ago. Since then they were cleaned of rust.

Mr Monteith asked for one of the cramnons to be sent to Christchurch for the Canterbury Museum’s Antarctic centre.

“It’s a bit embarrassing, as three of them were sent nn, so all I can do is take two back there next summer and have them put in Captain R. F. Scott’s hut at Cape Evans,” he said. It is not known whether the crampons came from this hut or that of Shackleton at Cape Royds. Both men used ponies during their expeditions on the continent. Pill benefit Women who use birth control pills have fewer noncancerous breast lumps than i women who do not, according to a study published in I the “New England Journal ! of Medicine.” “As far as I ;know, this is one of the first studies on oral contraceptives that shows a positive side-effect to the !oill,” said Dr Brian MacMahon, professor of epidemiologv at Harvard and author of the report. — P >ston.