SPORT OF SKI-ING.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18171, 17 August 1922, Page 4

SPORT OF SKI-ING.

RUAPEHU TOURNAMENT. ' ..M Between 30 and 40 members of the | Ruapehu Ski Club, representing abouv £ one-third of the club's membership, na™ ~ gone from various parts of the ««W&s Island to Waimarino, and thence tott*,; Whakapapa Cottage/Mount Etapehu J* the club's annual gathering for venter sports. The club intends *°* dd _ ?-£.;>: sports' tournament, for which a pro . of events com F ismgJJ : - 5 country and downhill, races, jumputf _. and turning competitions, »- ve / i arranged. Several trophies have been donated, and others are being provirfea ■ ; from club funds. . ... ;T Provision- was made in the cJWJ ;,; original rules for tournaments but «r»j. it has been found impossible to how ,-■_. them, as the existing *f*™f*%& • facilities necessarily limited the a»» gatherings to separate small parties. w» frection by the Tourist Department hf , , autumn of'an additional but adjacent, to ,/. the Whakapapa Cottage affords scope lor ; , a much move representative gathering «* ■ members. . . _* « »„_ _!«_*. .- Despite disquieting reports of the j>Soct- ,^ age of snow, an endeavour wU be -J«J > to carry out part- if_nob the whole;«!»«» programme, by clunbmg part .of the *«y -~,,: up the slope of Ruapefm. -Should .the tournament prove a success, » fc ">;£• made a regular feature of the oh* «. »;■ j*g nual outing. . _______ > •■ i_H