OTAGO TRAMPING CLUB

Evening Star, Issue 21004, 19 January 1932, Page 4

OTAGO TRAMPING CLUB

—,— Last Saturday afternoon a few members of the above club met at the Kaikorai terminus and spent a very pleasant afternoon walking to “ Lake ” Whare. Brimful of holiday news, they rushed headlong into superlatives in describing their unique vacation experiences in various regions of Otago—waxing poetical, now over the rugged snow-clad peaks fringing the great Southern Lakes, now over the chaste beauty of Fiordland, and again over the wooded splendour of Stewart Island and the east coast. Such exotic conversation beguiled the climb to the water trough, where the party paused to glimpse the panorama stretching from the coastline round Taieri Mouth, Saddle Hill, the Taieri Plain, with Mosgiel in the foreground and Waihola glistening in the distance, to sombre Maungatua and the Hock and Pillar Range. Shortly after beginning the descent Whare Plat came into view, and the Hampers involuntarily loitered in contemplation of this homely scene, familiar to all lovers of Dunedin. 'The cluster of houses in the little green flat nestled amid the dark wooded/ hillocks beneath the Chalkies, with Silver Peaks Scarcely discernible in the misty distance.

The party soon crossed Kay’s Creek and turned to the right up the hill to the old flaxmill, whose site is marked by a little dam called facetiously “ Lake ” Whare. It is bordered by poplars and sixty-year-old bluegums, with close by the weathered ruins of an old stone mill, a massive wooden water wheel, and the remains of a little garden in the way of a dozen heavilyladen gooseberry buslies, as well as a cherry and an apple tree. The Hampers here boiled the billy, and then commenced the return journey up a steep track recently cut through the sweetscented flowery manuka which clothes the hack of Flagstaff. On leaving the track they entered upon the tussock slopes,, beautiful at present with a wealth of fragrant native box, cclmisia, everlasting daisy, and ground orchids, tinged here and there with the yellow colour_ of senecios, dandelions, and Maori onion. Passing Ben Rudd’s hut, they reached the old bullock track, and then descended via Pineapple Hill and the Ross Creek track. Striding along the road from the reservoir, the members of the party assured one another as they gazed over Maori Hill to the city dim in the failing light, to the mighty Pacific meeting a grey sky lit up by the Southern Cross, that Dunedin, after all, was fair and beautiful beyond compare.

Godwin had to fight hard to avoid defeat at the hands of Oliver, who has done remarkably well so far. Forster (Caversham) was expected to do better than he did last week, and on his display against Horne he should still stand a reasonable chance of entering the post-sectional play. The Caversham team administered a severe heating to Leach (Runanga) in the afternoon.

The following is a summary of the wins and losses at tho end of six rounds of sectional play, the skips only being mentioned: —

HALF-YEARLY MEETING OF COUNCIL At the half-yearly meeting of the 1 council of the Now Zealand Bowling Association it was decided that the annual meeting be held in Wellington in July. Consent was given to an application from Westport tor the establishment of a Buffer centre. It was reported that the British team to tour New Zealand would leave the Old Country at the end of September, first visiting Australia. It was agreed to apply to the English Association for the exact date of arrival in New Zealand. Advice was received from the Queensland Association that a team could not be recruited to visit New Zealand this year.

SECTION A. Wins Losses Brenmer ..i 5 1 Skoglnnd 5 1 Burgess 4 2 Benton J 3 3 3 Adess Collett 3 3 Tonkin 2 4 Redpath 2 4 Becconsall 2 4 Piper • ■ 1 5 SECTION B. Wilson ... 5 1 Dick 5 1 Ives 5 1 Muirson 3 3 Du Feu 3 3 Anderson 3 3 3 Casey 3 Reese 2 4 Stevenson 1 5 Pamham 1 5 SECTION C. Dcare 5 1 Moyes 4 2 Armstrong 4 2 Raphael 4 2 Morrison 4 2 Pattrick 2 4 Brown ... 2 4 Piper ... 2 4 Martin 2 4 SECTION 1). Ramsay ... 5 1 West 4 2 M‘Whannell 4 2 Bandy v 4 2 Findlay 4. '2 Rodd 3 3 Rolls 3 3 3 3 Ferguson Truman 2 * c 0 6 SECTION E. Hodge 5 1 Atkinson 4 2 Noblo Adams 4 2 Burgess (Riccarton) 4 2 ' Coombes 3 3 Walker 3 3 •Ainger 2 4 Abbott 2 4 Mayer 2 4’ Pearce 1 5 SECTION F. Walker (5 0 Arnott ; ... 4 2 Bartlett 4 2 Laurenson 4 2 Buck 3 3 Pollock 2 4 Hayward 2 4 Read 2 4 Wyhan ... . 2 4 Goldstone 1 ■ 5 SECTION G. Gray ... .; 6 0 Wilson ... 5 1 Tyrrell 4 2 Johnston 3 3 Ryan 3 3 Lancaster 3 3 Fox 3 3 Hargreaves 2 4 Thomson 1 5 East 0 6 SECTION H. Calder 6 0 Foster ... ... ... 5 1 Sprosen 4 2 Orchard ... 4 2 ] Gordon ... 3 3 Morgan 3 3 Monk 2 4 Peek 2 4 Davies 1 5 Madsen ... 0 6 SECTION I. Hutchison 5 1 Martin 4 2 Murray 4 2 Thomson 4 2 Rennie 4 2 Lowry , t 3 0 Worsley ... ... ... 2 4 Craw •... 2 4 Baldwin 2 4 Claughton 0 6 SECTION J. Goodwin 5 1 Gordon ... 5 1 Edwards 5 1 Forster 4 2 Stephens 3 3 C. W. Johnston ... 3 3 Oliver 3 3 Redpath 2 .4 Horne 2 4 Dickson 2 4 Wilkinson 1 5 Leach 1 5