Mountain safety adviser appointed
Mr Wayne .Mullins, of Tauranga, has taken up an appointment with the Mountain .Safety Council as training adviser.
He replaces the council’s first training adviser. Dr Richard Schmidt, who was killed in an avalanche in the Himalayas ain March this year.
Mr Mullins has the task of advising and assisting with instruction systems in various fields of outdoor activities throughout the country and in developing resources for instructors.
His background includes four years in accountancy, farmwork in .Australia and New Zealand, two years
as, a field officer In Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and one year in South America.
He has tramped, climbed and hunted throughout New Zeaianad and is a former New Zealand men’s trampoline champion and former member of a New Zealand Universities indoor basketball team. He has been a secondary school teacher for the last four years and has organised camps, specialist instruction courses, and trips for pupils and has run in-service courses for teachers on camping, climbing, abseiling, canoeing and orienteering.
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