MILFORD SOUND.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20610, 8 January 1929, Page 4

MILFORD SOUND.

AT THE NEW HOSTEL. The New Year was ushered in at the new hostel, Milford Sound, with a round of festivities. The 75 visitors arranged an impromptu fancy dress ball. Great ingenuity was shown in preparing dresses causing no end of merriment. A costume wholly made of towells was much admired, and there were a clergyman, a veiled lady,' Arabs, Sheiks, Japanese, Mrs Gamp, Sinbad, Grecian girl, etc. Four visitors from America, who had specially come to New Zealand for the walk gave valuable assistance, and the whole function went off with much eclat. At midnight the oldest visitor (Mr Meadower, of Melbourne), representing Father Time, struck the hour on the gong, and after the appropriate speech, “Auld Lang Sync” was sung, and the New Year was heralded in by the youngest child at the hostel (Miss Ngaiere Long, aged three years) entering at the front door. A number of students rendered the Otago University anthem, and various hakas, and the gaiety concluded with the National Anthem. Besides the usual routes, the Grave Talbot Pass this year brought nine visitors, including one lady, while three came from Wakatipu by the Dore Pass.