RUAPEHU’S ATTRACTIONS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 119, 10 August 1927, Page 9

RUAPEHU’S ATTRACTIONS

GROWING POPULARITY SKI CLUB’S ANNUAL REPORT Improvements to Bruce Road, which is now metalled right up to the Whakapapa huts, has had the effect of making National Park * favourite rendezvous for motorists. In the annual report of the Ruapehu Ski Club, it is stated that with so niany motorists and others beginning to appreciate the attractions of the resort, it was important that sufficient accommodation should be available for a jJ desirous of enjoying the glorious C h?*t* c conditions of Ruapehu. To effect an improvement, the Park *»oard has decided, as soon as sufficient lunds are in hand, to erect a small hostel at Whakapapa, together with a number of small cottages for the actiM Uno< * at * On °* mou ntaineering parDuring last winter a party of 54 members of the club visited the Wha“W* huts, but owing to adverse snow conditions it was again found necessary ® cancel the club’s annual winter sp 2, rts tournament. f..T° av °td this as much as possible in tn,y llre has b eer * suggested that the nf *J amenl ke held on the first fine day of the trip. mit" cr ©ss-country course of about a °if. znc * re » which should always be llab ‘C, has also been selected. It to dev °te part of the club's V._ to effecting the necessary imt.em^nts» Providing the permission ot the b °ard is obtained. SUMMER PARTIES

interest be shown by theoi k S il ls P oss ible that in the future may arra nge summer parties. atn _ ? n } em^er ship of the club now at ti* which 32 were elected since e 'r? St j* nnual meeting and 14 club i The finan cial position of the ceivo/* 3 - sa V s f ac t°ry, subscriptions re8s tv, ari hg the year totalling £32 comnt , nce in hand is £4O 9s as ■* “*“ that regret, states the report, dental a c * ub has to re P°rt the accijt r deaths during the year of Mr. F. and Mr x Baines, who Egmnnt on t,ie slopes of Mount who w* on „ May 11 • and Mr. H. A. Hoik drowned on May 27 while Eatiir. . ns to cross the flooded Manern ', Ur " Stre ™ on the south-west-Th« Pes ot Mount Ruapehu, annnni re,,ort will be submitted at an jnonth. to be held early next