CYCLING CLUB.

Grey River Argus, 5 November 1928, Page 2

CYCLING CLUB.

GREYMOUTH UNITED SECOND RUN. Members of the Greymout'i United Cycling Club held their ‘<-.nid run yesterday, when a visit wa< raid Hr the Seven Ihle. Forty members pedalled out to enjoy :i qltndld day’s exercise, and afte.lunch a programme of games jc.ded to the ph’asu-’e. The party arrived back i? town nt five o’clock. .Tim Club has chosen for its n-'xt •uting. a trip to the Twelve Mile- in r-n- i’lirukaiki Road. Tn : < sped has hi on favoured for years by crayfisn fi-dm men, who find at sui ablo tidegood hauls in the deep p : ,1.; m Im o’kv formation of the co?-t nt 1l»'polrt. Mussel: . too, are plentiful there, and provide campers with al fresco meals, which cooked in nature’s own —-.-c-a vhi er, are ve.v <!* I'g h ’. fill. ". ;k‘ ’’Tl Brunn * the lirs' white i.nan ’• * f* the ’-.t < •

wa> - i- <uis trek ’’rin . Gri’t imm” in 1545 (S 3 ag • . hi' found a fairly largo Maori settlement at or very near the Twelve Mile, pos. ibly on that small coastal plain which lies between the beach and the bush-clad cliffs. The natives received him hospitably, giving him potatoes and whitebait (preserved in their own fashion) and he stayed for some little time resting, and recuperating from It's very strenuous journey. He says in his journal that he does not understand why they had cho 1 on that pa>-l ticular spot, but that is possibly explained now that we know of the ex-| i 'fence of the mir’sels and crayfish these. This fare would enhance the j food supplies of the Maori, who at, times must have been very hard put. to it to maintain a full larder. I There is no doubt that fie Cycling Club in its activities, will be enabled' to do a vast amount of tramping, an l| exploring of historical ami beauty spots which even the possessors ot| motor cars do not attempt. Within a radius of fen to twelve miles from Greymouth there are numbers of ideal nlaces which can ba approached easily bv cycle. Then the pa'ty can employ fne rest of the day in swimming, botrnising, nng’ing mayhap, or in the 'way that fancy leads. Motor car owners’ of course fly past these places in a cloud of 'lust on their way to a point from which they will be seen on their way back. But do they see the country at close hand?