TARARUA RANGES.
LEVIN, March 5. The formal opening took place yesterday of a largo nut erected on Mount Waiopehu (3588 ft by the. Levin-Waiopehu Club. The building provides accommodation for 16 persons, and is reached by a seven-mile walk through magnificent virgin bush. The view,, from the summit embraces country from Ruapehu and. Eginont to the Kaikouras in the South Island, and the full expanse of the Tararua Ranges in the east. A track to the summit has been cut by members of the Levin-Waiopehu Club, who pottered all materia] for the hut and its construction. Over persons attended the ceremony, the officials including. Mr W. H. Field, M.P.. Mr E. Phillips Turner (Secretary of tl b Forestry Department), and representatives of Wellinn-ton and Wairarapa local bodies, and tramping clubs. In his address Mr Field said there was more delight in the walk up the Waiopchu ridge than on the celebrated Milford Track, as the fqrmer presented more varietv of interest and the trip could be accomplished in one day from Levis, or, if taken more leisurely, in two days.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3861, 13 March 1928, Page 67
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