TARARUA TRAMPERS

Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 9, 10 July 1940, Page 5

TARARUA TRAMPERS

MEMBERS ENLIST The total membership of the Tararua Tramping Club in its twenty-first anniversary year is 413, against 400 the previous year, says the annual report. The enlistment of active and enthusiastic members affected attendance on tramps, this being more in evidence on working parties. Club members on active service retain the full benefits of membership, but the payment of their subscriptions is suspended until their return to civil life. To the end of the club year 23 members had enlisted. Some are at present serving overseas and others are in camp. The official club tramps, comprised 43 weekend trips, average attendance 21; 40 Sunday trips, average attendance 11; 10 weekend working parties, average attendance 20; a nine-day trip to the Tongariro National Park, attendance 53; a 10-day Christmas trip to the Waipakahi district, in the Kaimanawa Ranges, attendance 18; and two Easter trips—one to Ohakune Hut, attendance 19, and the other to Kapiti Island, attendance 37. Tha annual inter-club sports meeting was held in the Catchpole and in the Wainui Valleys during* December. The annual marathon race drew 29 starters —a record. The attendance at this meeting was approximately 225, made up of representatives of eight tramping clubs. During the year ten official working parties, supplemented by two private-ly-organised parties, did a good deal of hut and track work, including repairing and reconditioning and other work at the Otaki Forks cottage, the Cone Saddle hut in the Tauherenikau district, the Kime hut. Tauherenikau, and Smith's Creek track, the short-cut from the Cone Saddle pack track to the Cone Saddle hut, Field track, deviations on Table Top and from Field's Peak to the Hector Saddle, Marchant

track, slips on Smith's. Creek, and the river, bank in front of the Tauherenikau hut. Working parties also assisted combined clubs on the Ohau, Yestes, and Gable End; tracks.