CLIMBERS CONFER

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21807, 23 May 1934, Page 16

CLIMBERS CONFER

FEDERATION OF CLUBS PAST YEAR'S ACTIVITIES A most satisfactory year was disclosed by the 'third annual report of the Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand, presented to the annual meeting of delegates held in Wellington. The report seated that consequent on the discussion'at the last annual meeting a special committee was appointed, which could meet at short notice, consider the facts,' and, if necessary, make a report. The request that coroners should, when possible, permit expert evidence to enable,, them to add a rider to their verdicts has been responded to favourably in the inquiry held in Christchurch over the Arthur's Pass fatality. That precedent would be welcomed by all who wished to see the sport kept on sound lines. The Minister of Internal Affairs had been requested by the federation to allocate a sun| of, say, £2OOO out of an art union to form a nucleus for a general search fund. The application had been admitted to "have merits," and it was believed that it had been put on the list./ As, however, there were hundreds of applications, it might bo a long time before their turn came. The Government had declined to introduce legislation to re-establish the expert committee cut out of the Mountain Guides Ar/t, but the Minister and the department had given an assurance that no regulations would be gazetted until they had been submitted to a committee as proposed at the original guides control conference. The federation now included most clubs in New Zealand, and badges and colours were being gradually registered. fn moving/the adoption of the report, Mr. A. P. Harper, who presided, caid that the machinery of the federation was running smoothly, and a good •tiesl of useful work had been done.