TRAMPING CLUBS

Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 83, 8 April 1941, Page 13

TRAMPING CLUBS

EASTER ARRANGEMENTS

The vacation at Easter has always given members of tramping clubs throughout New Zealand their main opportunity to make extended trips, and this year will be no exception.* The drain on membership by the war and Ihe restrictions on petrol are factors that will limit operations, but in Wellington, at all events, some interesting excursions have been arranged. About twenty members of the Tararua Tramping Club will leave Wellington on Thursday for north Egmont and will return on Monday night. Between thirty and forty members usually make the Easter trip, but many members of the club are on service with the

Forces

The Hutt Valley Tramping Club has arranged a trip for about twenty mem: bcrs to Mount Tapu'aenuku, a South Island peak often visible from Wellington bays. The trampers will leave for Picton on Thursday evening, and will complete the journey by ,road transport. They will return to Wellington on Wednesday morning.

In the past southerly "busters" have frequently forced visitors to Kapiti Island to overstay their leave, or have kept them on the mainland. This year both the Victoria University College Tramping Club and the Outdoor Club are taking the risk. About twelve University trampers will leave on Friday morning and return on Monday night, and twenty-five members of the Outdoor Club will make up a separate parly.

Information of the intentions of the other local clubs, the Paua Tramping Club and the Rue-Sac Tramping Club, has not yet been received.