GIRLS' WINTER SPORTS

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20860, 20 May 1933, Page 15

GIRLS' WINTER SPORTS

SKI-ING PRACTICE AT THE BALL GLACIER. (SPISCIAI. Tire PRESS.) TASMAN CHALET, May 18. It is a merry party of., girls from the schools and colleges of the South Island tijat: is assembled here for the inter-sscondary / schools' ski-ing championships.: The in being held up for half jx day through being unable to get through on' Monday, due to the wash-out at Bush Creek, has long since been forgotten in the thrill of life here in this mountain sheiling and the grandeur of the alpine scenery that surrounds US What impresses one most of- all is the enterprise of the Hermitage people in overcoming all sorts of to make a holiday of this kind possible. A motor road, rough though it is, and negotiable only by drivers who know their job, makes it possible for parties to reach the Tasman Chalet in an hour or two from the Hermitage. At the hut itself, the additions to which are just about complete, ev *35 possible is done for the comfort oi visitors. . , , Yesterday and W-day the girls have bfeen initiated into the mysteries of ski-ing. Under competent instructors they are making rapid progress, and all are keenly looking forward to the sports which take place later in the week, Impromptu concerts at night time are the order of the day, and it is amazing how enjoyable these are and what a wonderful lot of talent is forthcoming.