ARTHUR’S PASS CAMP

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30956, 12 January 1966, Page 12

ARTHUR’S PASS CAMP

Walks, Films And Lectures Held In spite of marginal weather, the programme for the Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society’s summer camp at Arthur’s Pass has kept to schedule. The camp opened on Saturday with a walk over the pass to Otira and return by special train. Although ample time was allowed for the tramp, several of the 85 members who took part had to sprint the last few hundred yards to the train because so much time had been spent studying roadside plant life and taking photographs. On Sunday morning rain fell in the pass, but at the Waimakariri river the weather was fine for a walk upstream from the main road bridge. Mr D. Pringle, science adviser to the Canterbury Education Board and leader of the party, described the vegetation and history of the area. Mr Pringle again was the leader on Monday when the campers visited Margaret’s Tarn and the Bealey glacier and many bog and sub-alpine plants were seen. Meetings each evening in the museum lecture hail have featured films and slides of Arthur’s Pass National Park, Maori craftsmanship, and previous camps of the society. On Sunday evening, the Rev. T. R. Page, of Greensdale, conducted a service for members in the chapel.