WANAKA NOTES

Hokitika Guardian, 30 August 1928, Page 1

WANAKA NOTES

(From a Correspondent)

Three travellers accidentally met at the Clarke Hut on the Haast Pass track. 30 miles from “anywhere ’’ reccMitly. It eventually leaked out all three were from Home, all ex-scouts, two with war service to their credit, fin'd all non-smokers. All three made their livelihood from tourist traffic and their respective hobbies were landscape artist, photographer and journalist.

A suggestion has been put forward, the practicability of which is at present being tested, to organise a large representative hoy scout jamboree in the Haast Valley beyond the Alps. The camp is to to made up of Otago and Dunedin troops proceeding via Wan ale a, find Hokitika and West Coast troops proceeding via ketch to the Haast mouth and thence trekking inland. Such a venture, besides being the first of its kind, would give the lads an opportunity of seeing one of nature’s most wonderful alpine chain and’ mountain forest and the meeting of East and West at its lowest Pass. A Dunedin senior troop, following a lecture given by a local resident in Dunedin, made definite attempts to make such a tour hut arrangements fell through at the last hour. This tour was placed within their reach by a generous transport extended by the Wanaka Motors Ltd. The West Coast is, even among those living near the Divide, an unknown country, hut recently, due to some extent by the appearances of a series of articles and regular West Coast items in Otago papers, many now express their desire to visit the unknown regions beyond the Pass.