MOUNTAIN CLUB

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 442, 25 May 1937, Page 6

MOUNTAIN CLUB

YEAR’S ACTIVITIES Report For Annual Meeting Th e annual report of the Stratford Mountain Club to be presented, to the meieting of members on Thursday night states that the club membership stood at 57, a decrease being due mainly to the departure of nine members from thie district. Addi-: Lions to the hut were a- heavy drain on club fitianceE', costing £lB/10/4, but th e year ended with a credit balance. During the year Miss J. Beale resigned from the committee on her departure from Stratford and was a guest with Mrs. Beale at a farewell even\g, the club presenting her with a set of se|al climbing skins. Two rooms and a verandah comprised the addition to Manganui Hut, relieving th e congestion in the main building, and the ski room had proved its worth. Lockers were now being built and would be hired alt a small fee. The telephone line to the hut was in working order throughout the year, land the annual overhaul embodying the installation of new wire would be an added improvement. The 1936 season was not good from a ski-ing point of view, the jump not being used and the junior members’ race being abandoned There was considerable club activity, however, on the cleared tracks, which it v| s hoped to improve. The club junior championship (Addis trophy) was won by C. Jury, who was first in both downhill and slalom, and the two senior events were won by Brian McMillan. G- Carryer won the intermediate downhill cup, and the Gordon Cup, for an unseen slhlom, was won by Brian McMillan, who alto was awarded Mr. T. Kirkwood’s cup for jumping. No contest wis held but the trophy was awarded on a performance on Fantham’s Peak. A trophy presented by C. Jury to stimuilat e interest in ski-ing among members under 19 years was not competed for owing to the absence of suitable conditions. Brian McMillan and Miss J. Beale did exceedingly well on th e provincial and, national ehatapjonships and the in. ter-IMminion events on Ruapehu. Colin Wyatt’s visit to New Zealand enabled members with some skiing experience .to enter the Ski Club of Great Britain tests for a comparison of standards. Mr. Wyatt selected a standard third-class cours e on the Stratford slopes and gave valuable coaching in jumping on Fantham’s Peak. Brian McMillan pass. & d the third-class jumping test. Stratford activities were again reported in the Australian and New Zealand Ski Year Book. The Taranaki provincial ski committee, with two Stratford delegates, continued to function satisfactorily, and l:|id decided to make Fantham’s Peak the venue for this year’s senior chaw Pionships. The Stra'ford club was again asked to control a Taranlaki junior championship in, conjunction, with the club junior championship.