HOSTELS FOR HIRERS.
The increasing popularity of hiking has inspired the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust to vote a grant of £IO,OOO lor the erection of a chain of new hostels all over Britain.
Approximately £7.000 will be devoted to the establishment of hostels in England and Wales, £3,000 to Scotland, and £SOO to assist the movement in Northern Ireland. The brilliant weather of 1933 lias encouraged the greatest open-air movement Britain lias ever known.
In 1931 there were only eight youth hostels in Britain, with a membership of under 500. To-day there are nearly 160 hostels scattered all over Britain, and the membership of the movement has increased to nearly 20,000. Members of another youth movement are exploring the rivers and set water-ways round the coast of Britain. Ten new clubs have been formed this summer on the Thames alone.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12440, 5 September 1933, Page 7
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