PARK-MORPETH HUT.
TO. THE EDITOB O* THE . PEF.SS gj ri jn The Press of April 20th there appeared an; article under the heading "Cult of the Rucksack," in which reference was made to our hut in the Wilberforce- river. Two years ago, when making a crossing of the Browning Pass two young men from Westland lost their lives in tliat locality. The hut is named Park-Morpeth after them, not Parkes-Morpeth, as it nppeared in the article. On the signboard directing trampers to the tut,
the name is given as Parkes-Morpeth, but this is ,an error.—Yours, etc., . C. J. THORNTON, Hon. Secretary, Canterbury Mountaineering Club. April 28th, 1931.
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20224, 30 April 1931, Page 11
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