WINTER JOURNEY.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20610, 28 July 1932, Page 11

WINTER JOURNEY.

Blrt' SKOW -IN SOUTH. ?- ' ■ 0F WINTER SPORTS f|[-. , members of the official who hare been attendeP° rto at the Mount eook returned to Chnstchurch iSr making the trip under winThe first snow at the eariy in May fell late ■FTS, afternoon, continuing at IS; trough the night. HSSTfecb of enow at the Hermitajp lßggg.w~l.-i-, , ffc after an early wEuwitefday morning, and they jjgPff&f through a countryside that about 80 miles was Ffßg?ySlfc\nnw averaging from six iBBs-to ■» f oo * ' n j, 9bSl-heavy going occasioned by roads the bus from SkSSp wasdelayed to such an 'JlKat «t was unable to connect tllFihe north-bound express at Ti- * Arrangements were made for Mftit.*. be detained some fifteen -WmZiiat Temuka, where the party :HR.« M intd for Christchurch. iaPL f.n during practically the tlie tourney from the Hermit'Wtftwnta. At Sawdon's Flat there =«BPjun twelve inches of snow on the 'jMßtrSi fill, bus for some time at this 3 snow plough. Progress proved very slow, howeventually it was decided jßjTiiM should go ahead breaking Great difficulty was ex-r-Hjy in keeping to the road, and IKHwii* were particularly difficult Burke's Pass, where the IbSm&W' vehicle encountered in sixty being dug out of a snow-drift |*S| tarry crew. Tekapo. where tlie party SEtt* ea > travellers were inin the spectacle of bottles of iW&ffr tf* nt had frozen solid in the 'WBSEm el .the store. A number of 'MBggmtt in residence there and were jHltyfjrwri to good sport follow,Mß heavy foil of snow. It is ex'«§p4hafc the snowfall will be liberal JiSj>j|be whole of tlie winter sports raS MBmiting gpod conditions for the ciampinn&hip meeting, to be *** Hermitage during the HHNnrf cot month.