Wainui cabin opened
The Young Men’s Christian Association celebrated 50 years of camping at Wainui with an open day, ' last Saturday, About 300 people and Father Christmas turned out to enjoy the confidence : course, trampolines, archery, i and games, the executive < director (Mr R. French) has: said. The high point of the day ’ was the opening of a new ■ icabin. The double unit, i which sleeps 20, would beli
the first of five cabins to be built in a $50,000 project to! replace the 50-year-old huts,! he said. The cabin was given byi the L. K. Laugesen Charitable Trust. Mr Laugesen' formally presented the! cabin, and Mrs Laugesen, opened it. ! Mr Laugesen, the founder: (of Midland Motors, had dri-j ven the first busload of! YMCA. campers to( Wainui 50 years ago, and' had supplied the transport: lever since, Mr French said.
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