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Hokitika Guardian, 14 August 1925, Page 4

.MILK AT THE POLE. LONDON, July 1. We liitiul on t!iis to tlu' dairy industry of Now Zealand as the raw material of a 'iiifiii publicity feature. Professor Henry Kenwood, an Emeritus Professor ol Hygiene in Loudon University, has been writing to the Press, and this is what he says:— “Captain Amundsen, in the graphic account of l:is recent effort to reach the North Pole, reveals the fact that he provisioned hi- party witli extensive supplies of milk, in one form or mini her. The Scandinavian athletes consumed mill; largely in their training lor Olymie (lames, in which they p;ained such notable success. Dempsey is a eonviiiceil milk-consumer. Weismuller. the eliampion swimmer of the world, anti Stagg. the Chicago University coach, are also advocates of a milk diet. ■ “Among our own athlete?, Abrahams is the only one who attests to the value of milk in training. Might not (float Hritain nuinlu'r more ehampions amongst her devotees to sport if the value of milk in building up nervous energy and muscular energy wore more generally realised, and it is not well to combat the belief so prevalent in this country that milk lias a real foal value fur infants and invalids only, by pointing out that it has a proven value to men who are to undergo a supreme test of strength and endurance ?”