712 Boys Raise $7500 From Trek

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31809, 14 October 1968, Page 16

712 Boys Raise $7500 From Trek

About $7500 was raised by 712 boys from the Canterbury Battalion of the Boys’ Brigade and about 100 other persons who took part in the annual sponsored trek on Saturday organised by the battalion round the Port Hills to raise money for the development of the brigade’s camp site at Waipara.

This was about $2BOO less than the amount raised last year, but 168 fewer boys took part. This year the trek was divided into four sections, a junior section for boys aged from eight to 12, a company section for boys from 12 to 15, a senior section for boys from 15 to 18, and a family section for children, parents ,and grandparents. Of the 712 boys who took part, 441 walked in the 12mile junior trek from the Takahe, along the Summit Road to the Mount Pleasant Community Centre; 251 took part in the company section trek of 21 miles from the Christchurch Technical Institute, through Cashmere, along the Summit Road and through Sumner to the Mount Pleasant Community Centre, and 20 senior boys took pari in the 40-mile trek which in eluded an overnight stay at the motor camp at Purau Bay About 100 other persons including 14 families took part in the 12-mile trek. The treasurer of the batta

lion (Mr M. E. Lloyd) said yesterday that the majority of the boys in each section finished the trek. Boys in the junior section took about five hours to finish the distance and boys in the company section about an hour longer The first boy back in the senior section arrived at the finish at the Christchurch Metho dist Central Mission in Cam bridge Terrace at noon yesterday. Most of the boys ar rived about 1.30 p.m. Boys could be sponsored for any amount for each mile walked, but in the family sec-

tion there was an entry fee of $l. The most money raised by one boy was $30.40 collected by Corporal G. Lye who took part in the senior trek. The most collected by a membei of the team section was $19.92 by M. Steele, of Kaiapoi, and the most by a member of the company section was $2440 by G. Logan, of the 22nd Christchurch company. The third Christchurch com pany raised $384, the highest amount for a company, and the first Kaiapoi Company collected $216, the most for a team section. Mr Lloyd said that although there had been snow on the Port Hills for the start of the trek, conditions for most ot the way were ideal.