Taranaki Branch Summer Camp

Forest and Bird, Issue 149, 1 August 1963, Page 26

Taranaki Branch Summer Camp

8-14 JANUARY, 1964 AT NEW PLYMOUTH RACECOURSE Adjacent to Pukekura Park and Brooklands Accommodation available at varying fees for 100. Grandstand buildings will sleep 60. Ample sheltered area for a further 40 in own caravans and tents. Camp members will be arranged in five categories or groups: Group 1: Those needing all camp amenities including housing, showers, cooking facilities for breakfast, cooked evening meal, and transport. Adults £5 each; Juniors (I 6 years and under) £2 12s. 6d. Group 2: Those needing all amenities listed under Group I but having their own tents and caravans. Adults £4 IBs. od.; Juniors (16 and under) £2 10s. Od. Group 3: Those in tents, caravans, motels, etc., who require an evening meal but no transport. Adults £4; Juniors (16 and under) £2 10s. Od. Group 4: Those in tents, caravans, motels, etc., who require transport but no evening meal. Adult £3 ss. od.; Juniors (16 and under) £2. Group 5: All those in motels, hotels, or their own homes who are not in need of either transport, meals, camp cooking or other amenities, but who desire to attend rambles, picnics, lectures, and evening meetings. Camp fee only: Adults IBs.; Juniors 7s. 6d. Fees for Groups I to 4 include all transport to Mt. Egmont, Pukeiti Rhododendron Trust, beauty spots, and places of historic interest. Owing to limited kitchen room a cooked evening meal only will be provided. Breakfast and lunch are to be the campers' own responsibility, with sufficient kitchen facilities for these meals. Large, pleasant, sunlit diningroom, ample hot water, hot and cold showers, and toilet amenities. Campers to bring all sleeping equipment, cooking and eating utensils. Palliasses provided if required.

Camp opens with evening meeting at the racecourse on Wednesday, 8 January, at 7.30 p.m. Last meeting Tuesday evening, 14 January, and dispersal on Wednesday morning. Application for enrolment forms, enclosing a stamped addressed envelope for reply, to be made to the Camp Organiser — A. F. BARWELL, 31 Junction Road, New Plymouth. NOTE: An individual enrolment form is required for each person registering. When applying for enrolment forms please state how many you require. Enrolments close on 31 October.

MOUNT EGMONT 4-11 JANUARY, 1964 In view of the favourable response to the three courses held in January of previous years, the Council of Adult Education of Victoria University of Wellington is now planning its fourth course of this kind for the period 4-11 January, 1964. This course will be organised along the lines of previous courses and will be held at Stratford Mountain House. The team of tutors will include Mr. P. F. Jenkins and Mr. G. C. Kelly, who cooperated in previous courses, as well as Dr. R. W. Balham, of the Zoology Department of Victoria University, who has specialised in the study of bird behaviour. Mr. A. P. Bruce, Ecologist of the Botany Division of the D.5.1.R., who is making a study of ecology of Mt. Egmont National Park, will again pay a visit to the course. All who are interested in attending this course are invited to inquire for further particulars from the Director of Adult Education (Victoria University of Wellington), Box 2945, Wellington.