TARANAKI ALPINE CLUB

Taranaki Daily News, 11 June 1932, Page 3

TARANAKI ALPINE CLUB

NEW CLUB ROOM OPENED.

MEETING PLACE FOR MEMBERS.

The Taranaki Alpine Club’s new clubroom was open to members for the nrst time last night when the official opening took place. There were about 50 members present. Mr. Rigby Allan outlined the objects for which the committee had acquired the rooms —to have a place at which members could congregate during the winter months when trips were difficult of organisation. A series of lectures would be arranged, and it was intended to ask any members of other mountain clubs visiting New Plymouth to give talks. The rooms were officially opened by Mr. Gordon Fraser, the club’s president.

A short dance followed the opening, and supper was served. The club intends to make the rooms available for members one night a week, when the talks will be given and tha club’s library of mountaineering and skiing books will be available. The charge for admission for last night’s function took the novel form ot “payment in kind”—a cup and saucer from each member. Some had initiative and offered a jug instead. By this means the committee expects to “furnish” the rooms with crockery at small outlay.