GODLEY HUT REBUILT

Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27632, 13 April 1955, Page 11

GODLEY HUT REBUILT

CLIMBERS’ HOLIDAY TASK A party of 17 members of the Can-terbury-Westland section of the New Zealand Alpine Club re-erected the shell of their hut at the head of the Godley valley during the Easter holidays. • The climbers assembled at Lilybank station early on Good Friday, but were prevented from reaching the hut site that day by a north-westerly wind, so violent that men could not walk into it. When the party went up to the site on Saturday, they were further delayed by a fresh in the Godley river, which they had to cross, and building did not begin until Sunday. Some members of the party had to carry materials from the furthest point that vehicles could reach—about an hour’s walk from the hut site. After a platform had been built the hut of wood and iron was re-erected on a rock spur, near the confluence of the Fitzgerald stream and the Godley river. Finishing touches have still to be made to the interior.

The hut was dismantled on a site about 300 yards away last February when it was found, after a flood in the river, that the building was hanging four feet over a steep 200-foot shingle slope.

Those members of the party for whom there was no room on the one vehicle used left the hut site about midday on Monday, and walked back to Lilybank station. The others left by vehicle late in the afternoon. The party returned to Christchurch early yesterday.