SOUTH TO NORTH

Waipa Post, Volume 48, Issue 3470, 24 May 1934, Page 6

SOUTH TO NORTH

EXPEDITION'S BUTTER. DAIRY BOARD'S GIFT. London, April 6. A small party of young Englishmen 's about to set out from Harwich to make a sledge journey from the west coast of Greenland, across the ice cap, to the East Coast, and down the coast to the small Danish settlement it Angmagssalik. This is.one of the most ambitious Arctic expeditions that has been undertaken. The leader is Lieutenant Martin Lindsay, one of the surveyors of the British Arctic Air-route Expedition. He is 28 years of age, and his comoanions are 26 and 24 respectively. Provisions for ten weeks are to be taken for the sledge journey, and imong these are some 351 b of New Zealand butter. This has been preented to the expedition by Mr. H. E. Davis (London manager of the Dairy Produce Board) on behalf of the dairy carmers of New Zealand. The gift ,s' ordinary bulk butter which has >een tinned in this country. The leader of the expedition promised to let Mr. Davis know how the butter kept >h the journey, and gave his consent to any publicity that might be derived from the explorers' use of the oroduce. The important thing is to learn that the butter kept well and gave pleasure to' the men in the wilds of Greenland. As it happens, however, a paragraph relating to the gift appears to-day. The Times, which reserves the world copyright of the explorers' story, publishes an article on the plans of the expedition. At the end of the article is a paragraph headed "New Zealand Butter for Expedition." The writer says:— "The dairy farmers of New Zealand have presented a case of their butter to the British Arctic Expedition, which will set out from Harwich for Jacobshavn, on the west coast of Greenland. New Zealand is the southernmost of civilised lands, and the batter will thus have come from the far south to go to the far north. Before the explorers camp on the slopes of the Greenland ice-cap it will have, travelled nearly 17,000 miles."