NEW MOUNTAIN HUT
HEAD OF FOX GLACIER
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) . HOKITIKA, This Day.
Guide Alack, of the Fox Glacier, has just completed the building of a now hut on the Pioneer Ridge, at the head of tho Fox Glacier. Tho hut is at an elevation of about 8000 feot and ranks as the highest in the Southern Alps. It will be a jumping off place for several peaks of over 10,000 feet in the vicinity, constituting the best climbing group in New Zoaland. The hut, the material and labour for which was supplied b: Sullivan, Bros.; AVeheka, was erected under trying weather conditions, but fortunately most, of the material was taken in previously. / Miss Gardiner will spend some weeks in the locality carrying out high climbIng in. company with Guide Alack.
Woods' Great Peppermint Cure f«r Children's Hacking Cough,—Adyt,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 111, 7 November 1933, Page 5
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