COLLEGE TRAMPING CLUB
UNIQUE ANNUAL MEETING HELD ON PEAK SUMMIT (By Telegraph—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Gathered in the chilly atmosphere of the mountain top, the members of the Canterbury College Tramping Club bold a general meeting on the summit of Rubicon peak, Mount Torlesse yesterday. Proceedings were brief, and perhaps informal, but the members of the dull believed that they had made history, aud that never before has an organisation held a meeting at. 6050 feet above sea level on the summit of a. peak in New Zealand’s alpine chain. Mr A. P. Thomson presided over the hugest quorum to attend a meeting of the” club. Thirty-five were present having gone from Christchurch on Saturday and "camped overnight at a nearby valley. Minutes of the previous meeting .voi'e taken as read and a motion raising the annual subscription from ls io 2s was carried. After discussing the finances tin meeting was declared closed. and the club hurriedly decended. Tlie climb of the peak occupied four hours.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 23 April 1934, Page 4
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