Outward Bound to raise $150,000

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32703, 4 September 1971, Page 21

Outward Bound to raise $150,000

(New Zealand Press Association; DUNEDIN, September 3. . The Outward Bound Trust of New Zealand will start soon a campaign to raise at least $150,000 from throughout New Zealand, the national president (Rear-Admiral J. O. C. Ross) said in Dunedin last evening. The money would be to expand the Cobham Outward Bound School at Anakiwa.

The last meeting of the national body of the trust decided that something would have to be done about expanding the school at Anakiwa and to expand the impact of the Outward Bound movement in New Zealand. The need for expansion of the school arose from the great demand throughout New Zealand for places in the 10 28-day courses the school' holds each year, Admiral Ross said. The maximum number each course could accommodate at present was 50, but the expansion programme would allow for 72 to take part. This would mean that 720 boys would gain the benefit of courses in 1972 if enough money was raised to build more facilities at Anakiwa. At present, boys had to wait at least 10 months before they could be accepted. The expansion programme Would involve not only the building of more facilities but perhaps in the future a

whole new school, probably in the North Island, said Admiral Ross. A committee of the trust had been formed to investigate all the problems in long-term planning of the Outward Bound movement “1 am looking forward very much to the result of its investigations,” he said.