WINTER SPORTS

Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 264, 3 August 1932, Page 7

WINTER SPORTS

Australian Competitors NATIONAL PARK MEETING Australia will be represented at this year’s winter sports at Tongariro National Park, for which competitors have entered from all parts of the Dominion. From August 12 to August 19 the Alpine Sports Club, Auckland, will, hold its annual championships. The Dominion championship meeting of the Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand will commence on August 20 and conclude on September 5. Special spectacular snow jumps have been constructed at the sports grounds, which are three miles from The Chateau. An exhibition will be given by Guide Olaf, who will leap from a snowclad rock face 80ft. high. • < Many have gained the impression that ski-lng is a sport for the expert only. The joy of winter sports,.however,, is that both young and old can join in the fun and frolic. TongariroNational Park is the playground of the North Island. It covers an area of 150,000 acres and is set amid an extraordinarily wide variety of scenic attractions of a most striking and unusual nature. Here appears to have been gathered something of the best of all that the Dominion has to offer for the holiday-seeker. Steaming craters, sulphurous pits, a hot lake, ice-cold lakes, glaciers, snowfields, torrents and bubbling springs, rapids and waterfalls, huge cliffs and - rocky pinnacles, and alpine slopes inviting snowmanship are a few of the attractions offered by this great playground. For those inclined to strenuous sport, or mountain climbing innumerable opportunities are available.