Climbing trip for school pupils
A party of 53 fourthform pupils of Ashburton College took part in a climbing trip on Mount Somers yesterday. Twenty-seven members reached the summit, gaining striking views of Mount Cook and other major peaks of the Southern Alps. A further two bus loads of about 60 pupils will repeat the climb today. These activities have been part of the college’s outdoor training programme, which began last Thursday and will end today. A comprehensive programme has been undertaken, 750 boys and girls of third and fourth-form classes taking part Activities have included aspects of civil defence, such as fire-fighting, radio communication, food preparation, and tent erection. Other activities have included shooting and weapon training, flotation and survival in water, map reading and tramping, The group leader on the climbs has been Mr P. Bain. The photograph shows a group of the pupils inspecting an improvised washing and sterilising tank heated by a trombone burner. The tank is fashioned from a 44-gallon drum cut in half, lengthwise. Field tiles drain the water away from taps at the end.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32783, 7 December 1971, Page 16
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