MOUNTAINEERING
PIONEER CLIMBERS TO SPEAK
Final arrangements have new been made to hold in Christchurch a gathering of pioneer New Zealand alpinists and explorers. This “alpine evening” is fixed for Saturday, Qcober 1] ( at the Cathedral Grammar School gymnasium. The chair will be taken by Mr Arthur P. Harper, of Wellington, president of the- New Zealand Alpine Club. Lantern talks will be given by Dr E. Teichelmann (Hokitika) on the subject of the “Franz Josef Glacier,” by A. P. Harper on “The South Westland Park,” and by Messrs G. E. Mnniie-r----ing and W. A. Kennedy, who will deal with the Mount Cook region. These speakers all have very fine colle- tions of slides, and the best will be shown on this occasion. An nßdiiior.nl attraction is to be a short address on “Mountaineering” by Air Peter Graham, the famous guide, formerly of the Hermitage, and now of the Frans Josef Glacier. This function is being held'to raise funds for the but which the New Zealand Alp-ins Club intends to build as a memorial to Guide Bloomfield and the girls who lost their lives on the Tasman Glacier in Janiiaty last.
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1930, Page 2
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190MOUNTAINEERING Hokitika Guardian, 3 October 1930, Page 2
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