MILFORD TRACK.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18919, 7 February 1927, Page 8

MILFORD TRACK.

DOCTORS' ADVENTURE.

TRAISE OF SCENERY. >rm*» »seocuii6« TttgdßAH ' IH'NEDIX, February 6. One of the four visiting doctors who actually did walk the Milford track when the Moeraki put into the Sound, was Pr. W. J. Long, of Bendigo. Although lie did most of the walk in heavy rain, ho is delighted with his experience, and has nothing but go6d td say for the track officials. •'Of course," ho told a reporter, "you can't talk about it. It is puro magnificence. You realise that, and you also realise .that any words timet iompli'lely fail you.'' "But. how did you gel ashore, .ind what actually happened'" the interviewer asked. "Well, our ship, as you know, was a dav late," Dr. Long said. "We steam» ed'up the Sound dead slow. We. did not go nearly as far as the Bowen Falls, but, we waited inside pretty nearly three hours, firing several detonators, and sounding the siren. In the meantime Captain Hamilton, who wns Willi a surveying party at the Sound, rowed out. in a small boat to get what news there was, and he offered to take half a dozen ashore. The ship then turned about, and the water surging up took a way the rowlocks, and all the oars but one, so that the sh6re party had to be curtailed by two, and the boat had to bo fish-tailed along from the stern. It was raining heavily all the time, and we had hard Work inak* ing the shore at Sutherland's old place. There we were able to get in touch with the launch which took us to Band' fly huts. We left the Moeraki at one o'clock and did not arrive at the huts till 1. It was all we could do to fight the current, and it took the launch over half an hour to negotiate the .'i.jrt stretch bctweeu Sutherland's and lite huts." Dr. Long states that only the sleeping huts have been burned at Mllf6fdj the store huts aro Btill standing, and there are plenty of stores there.