OTHER PEOPLE'S IDEAS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 January 1941, Page 6

OTHER PEOPLE'S IDEAS

MOUNT HECTOR TRACK tTo the Editor ( Sir ! was pleased to read in your jouiTta! u notice re the Mount Hector tntek. N.J B. gave .i nice account, a-: far as it went but it so happens the whole scheme was organised by me. ,ii conjunction with my old friend. Mr f M Drummond who was with the airvi-yi.m wlm I'.'ikl out the trig talions throughout the Wmnirapa He suggested the idea io me He was too i.Li to take an active part in the formation of the track from Groytown t.> O’.iki He tin 1 got up i subscription list, and i? 1 ' '•> w.-iT. makmg -i ti-.iek lip p.' H-r: o.'-s'- f m We called .m<! hm! • ;! nuHing, at whmh Mr D P Lot.-by w;,-. elected chairman and I h.-n secretary, on whom the bulk of the W( rk fell. I knew the ,■;:• tiu ropes in Wellington and ■ -.’('■• o-.-m the Department ■md ;• couple *l’ hundred from the Public Works Ik-mirtment 'he first from the late Mr Ben Wd-mp then ni.tiiager ! d 'he ivurn-t Deparime;’.,. and the other thrmrgh Mr H J H Blow. UTidc-r-SiTretriry for the Publie Work? DcpiT.meni I'he Later, ih .ftlds'.? :: t? (ontributmg to the road . . .. j . d cos • - i : ■ tispen- ?■ l>ut th,-: .JSt I left at th< .-)■<- •>! -e m'gi ■lt i ami .ma.•• CW <-‘.o-.c N.J,11 evidently did rot know all 'his v.'hi’n writing his m’.erestmg mites Am. h v, the Grey .own .md Wellington club< presented me With a handaoJr.e .md UrlK* bnr> mi'ler-ther-mumcier, with a bras.-i phit:' 1 duly cn.it!’;;vert which shows the iqmrermtiun w.th which they rcrogHhed my fi-r--v?‘i" Y m": me. MARK MAXTON JP Grey’.?.'.-!': .Ijttuiarv 5.