ALPINE CHALET

Hokitika Guardian, 26 June 1933, Page 6

ALPINE CHALET

ON BALL GLAGIEIt‘MORAINE, OPENED ON SATURDAY. ■: • (Per.dPress Association— Copyright), HERMITAGE, June 24. > Overlqokirig some*,of trife : finest gla'ciai scenery .in thcv , and,.at:ptesent tne headquarters of large- winter sports parties/ Tbsihan. Chalet, ...built on flip, edge .df/ytKe- m.orairie v pt tee l ad Glacier, 14’miiqs from The Hermufcge, was/%bflicialiy j opened ; .fhis va'f iGihoon Mayor 0f.,., ,suris- - I\fy?D/Cr. Srillivan, , Foriuei ah the Rail Hu,t|,tho st .rtiiig liliteayof many . out,standing moiintam' conquests’, .. the - Chalet . ih', a 'iim - rlmdMmpfpve)iieiit,"on thp prexious Inul’diiigjVwhich has been extended..; ;to oyer .t^ToA !, i^|](s»',, ( ,and..is now.: equipped with 99 bunks, and .every .facility. The official opening was attended by about, 130. people, representative of the. Soutli Island, and aif day was. spent in the sn,ovv cpu'nt^y. Mi* It. f.i. Wigiey, managing director of Mt. Cook Coy., considered that the region . wqs/ the. coming /yeTiLing ground of the Dominion. . Ho. urged support for a^'strong.,South. Isjand-pr-ganisation to, bring about, wider, interest iri-the South heautios. Iri declaring the Chqlet open, the Mayor (Mr D, G. ) Sullivan),, Complimented MriWigley and tho, Cqjmpahy on their • enterprise:, .and, efforts /.fo popularise whiter, sports.'' He;.;, hoped that a South Island organisation would be formed to make, greater,.the Appreciation of j.he;Mtv Cookarea -.and the-,fio.uthem /,- /.,• - R'ef'oteingr.yiythe new. building,. .Mr Sullivan said that the old Ball Hut was etected/i;nytep' il vipinity of the year 1891. It AAa thb; P ,aco ,te v tho first a.sccnttef;'MA:VC'ook by. the Rev. Mr Green, andiSt had housed'; other personalities whose names - were- .indelibly printed in the pages of. the mountaineering districts, - • ■••/■r// /