MOUNT HOLDSWORTH TRACK.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8351, 7 February 1907, Page 5

MOUNT HOLDSWORTH TRACK.

£SO GRANTED BY THE GOVERNMENT.

Mr W. M. Easthope, secretary of the. Mount Holdsworth Track Committee, is in receipt of the following letter from the manager of the Tourist Department:—"Further to my letter, of 28th ultimo, I have now pleasure in informing you that it has been decided to assist your Association in erecting suitable huts on Mount Holdsworth. If your Association will have the work done to the satisfaction of a Government officer, to be appointed by this Department, I shall be pleased, on receipt of receipted vouchers for cost, to arrange for payment of a sum not to exceed £SO. I shall be glad if you can submit a rough sketch showing the class of hut proposed to be erected for approval." FLORA ON THE MOUNTAIN. Mr Malcolm Ross, who recently visited Masterton as the guest of Mr D. McGregor, senr., and climbed Mount Holdsworth, was very much struck with 'the profusion of alpine flowers on the mountain, particularly the edelweiss. He writes to Mr McGregor as follows: "I have found out all about the edelweiss. It is true edelweiss and much nearer the Swiss plant than the Mount Cook species. On our return here we were invited to dine with a young Hungarian climber and traveller (Mr Demstev), and we all put button-holes of the edelweiss in our coats. You should have seen his face when he saw the flower. He went into raptures, and says he must go up to see it growing."

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