TRAMPING CLUB REVIVED

Chronicle (Levin), 8 March 1946, Page 4

TRAMPING CLUB REVIVED

WAR RECESS NOW OVER MEETING OF MEMBERS . After being in recess throughout ihe war years due to the fact that practically all its members were with the iorces, the Levin- Waiopehu I'rampmg Club was revived at a meeting last evening. The attendince was disappointmg, but those! present were " enthusiastic and aecided to proceed. The president (Mr. N. M. Thomson) occupied fhe chair and at the outset referred to the iosses the club nad sustained as a result of the i vvar. He said that of all those whc , nad gone overseas, two of them hau | jaid the. supreme sacnfi.ee. They vere Messrs. O, Ii. Keedwell and A. 3c. Glover, both of whom had servec /jth the Air Force overseas. Memers honoured their memory by tanding in silence. Mr. Thomson went on to say that ^ was inevitable after a lapse oi we years that members would mee ii different circumstances. To thos' /ho were not members he would ry that in Levin we had one of th ,reatest opportuniti^s for' tramping nd mountain exploration of ant :own in the Dominion. The mounains were right at Levin's back loor, with ready-made tracks. whil here was the fine sandhDl and leach country which was just as oterestmg lor tramping a^ tn nountains. The club, he contintied, had beer ounded in 1927, following two mer. ecoming lost in the Tararuas, I'. lad built two huts, Ohau and Waiopehu, ' - had cut severaT track lid gefierally progressed frorr. itrength to strength. In 1936 it har uffered a severe ' setback in th/ torm which swept the Tararuas. iestroying the Waiopehu hut reaking the Ohau hut and obliter,ting the tracks. Members had gon ' o work, re-opened tfie Ohau track nd' re-b,uilt fhe hut, and werp ir he' procps of' cutting'tne 'trap'k thfough" to"W^05|hii'''"again wh ep £he* "Vz§,r "Interv.en'ed " and* R-fr, *b ^ork i'licompfete " " The" lg,st' outing i'a^ 'been* Wthe Ohau huo' on iember" &4,*l9'33, and" tiie 'niember who remai'iied were anxious t; •evive the Club if they could get ful ni d enthusiastic suppcrt, witl ^ood attendances at monthly rneetngs and on, trips. Mr. Thomson then indicated thc ?eneral lines on which he thoughf he club should be reformed, and z /.eneral discussion followed. It v:as finally decided to revivc the club and those present pledgar -hemselves as members and to givr their full support in obtaining nev members. A sub-committee crmprising \4isses Lacey and A. Moxham and Messrs. P. Stannard, B. Lacey and G. H. Kerslake was set up to makc arrangements for the, club's first monthly evening on March 26 which it is hitended all memberr and intending members shoulc attend. The appointment of offi cers was deferred until that meeting. • : •