FEDERATED MOUNTAIN CLUBS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22267, 21 May 1934, Page 8

FEDERATED MOUNTAIN CLUBS

ANNUAL MEETING / . . DOMINION SKI CHAMPIONSHIPS. (Pee United Pbess Association.) WELLINGTON, May 20. The New Zealand ski championships this year will be held in August at Tongariro National Park. Thi3 announcement was made at the annual meeting of the Federated Mountain Clubs of New Zealand on Saturday. A sub-committee, comprising the president (Mr A. P. Harper), and Messrs F. W. Vosseler and L. 0. Hooker, was set up to confer with the Government on tho question of. national parka and reserves. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows:—President, Mr A. P. Harper; vice-presidents—Messrs Vosseler (Wellington), Hooker (Taranaki), E. Ferrier (Christchurch), and E. Waters (Auckland); committee —Messrs C. G. Pryor, N. Thomson, C. G. Lockwood, W. S. Rennie, F. A. Wiren, H. Douglas, A. N. Smith, E. Syme, Dr G. N. Moir; secretary, Mr J. flinkle.

In the village of Verbasz, in Macedonia, out of 400 inhabitants, 20 are over 100 years old. No death has occurred in the village for over two years, except that of a new-born child. The reason for the extraordinary longevity which thia village produces has not yet been ascertained, though its climate is declared to be idea!. The aged inhabitants, however, eat, drink, and smoke to their hearts' content,' so abstinence forms no part of the programme of the would-be centenarian there.

A sentence of 10 months’ imprisonment was passed at a London court recently on Edward Adam, aged 28, tailor, who was described by a detective as the strongest man be had ever met. Adam wasseen trying car doors in the HaymarkeL When officers approached to arrest him, he kicked one in the abdomen, nearly knocked another through a plateglass window, and broke from two other detectives. He then knocked down five pedestrians who tried to stop him, but he was eventually caught. He had only been married a week.