MILFORD TRACK

Hokitika Guardian, 8 February 1927, Page 4

MILFORD TRACK

PRAISE OF SCENERY. DENE DIN, Ecbrunry (>. One of the four visiting doctors who actually did walk tlit? .Milford track when the .Moernki put into the Sound, was Or \V. . Folio, of liendigo. Although I'c did most of tlio walk m heavy rain, lie is delighted with his experienre. and has nothing hut good t i sav lor the trade officials. "Of course.'’ lie told a reporter,

"you can’t tulle about if. It is pure magnificence. Van realise that, and you also realise that any words must completely fail von.” “ Hut how did you get ashore, and what actually happened?” the interviewer asked.

•' MT 11, our ship, as you know, was a day late,” Dr Long said. “We .steamed no the Sound dead slow. A\ e did not go nearly as far as the Bowen Falls, hut w-2 waited inside pretty nearly three hours, firing several detonators, and sounding the siren. In the meantime Captain Hamilton, who was with a surveying party at the Sound, rowed out in a small boat to get what nows there was, and he offered to take half a dozen ashore. The ship then turned about, and the water surging up took array the rowlocks, and all the oars hut one. so that the shore party had to he curtailed by two, and the boat Had to he fish-tailed along from the stern, ft was raining heavily all the time, and we had hard work making the shore at Sutherland’s old place. There we were able to get in touch with the launch which took us to Sandfly huts. We left the Moeraki at one o’clock and did not arrive at the huts till 4. It was all we could do to fight the current, and it took the launch over half an hour to negotiate the short stretch between Sutherland's ami the huts.”

Dr Long states that only the sleeping lints have been burned at Milford; the store huts are still standing, and there arc plenty ifl stores there.