HUT ON MT. WAIOPEHU
TRAMPING CLUB’S GOOD WORK WONDERFUL VIEW FROM CREST Press Association. LE VIN, To-day. The formal opening took place yesterday of the large hut erected on Mount Waiopehu (3,588 ft) by the Levin-Waiopehu Club. ti™ h f„ bl jy dinsr P rovi( ies accommodation for 16 people, and is reached by a seven-mile walk through magnificent virgin bush. The view from the summit embraces the country ’from Ruato the Kaikouras in the South Island, and the full eyEast 6 ° £ the Tararua Ranges in the oiJw th a °T k *9 summit has been cut by the Levin-Waiopehu Club memI’ors, who carried all the material for the hut and its construction S ’Y e f a hundred people attended the official opening, including Mr. W. u Field, M.P., Mr. E. Phillips Turner secretary to the Forestry Department and representatives from Wellington Wairarapa local bodies and the Tramping Club. In his address, Mr. Field said he th» S w°f e d v? lish J; ed v-lth the walk-up the Waiopehu Ridge than with the celebrated Milford Track, as the for terest PreSented m ° re variet Y of in- ,, trip ° arl be accomplished in one !ntwo r °day s ln ' ° r ' m ° re leisu^>V.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 296, 6 March 1928, Page 16
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