Youth

Radio Record, 4 September 1936, Page 49

Youth

W. A.

Hammett

(secretary of -the

Youth Hostel Association

writes : "Hon.

. OUllIVaD, s4inister OL thaliways, Has written informing the New- Zealand Youth Hostel Association that all Y.H.A.

members engaged in a tramping expedition will receive one-fourth reduction of their railway fare. Their vouchers must be signed by the Hon. Reservations secretary, Mr. Norman Wright, 180a Manchester Street, stating the bearers are engaged on a tramping tour. This concession should prove a big incentive and encourage and extend the tramping movement throughout New Zealand. "In Great Britain and the Continent similar concessions have been made, and the growth and increase in the number of people using the hostels. overseas has been svectacular. Tramping trips should greatly assist in promoting national fitness, "In. New Zealand the hostels-.up till now, have been confined to Banks Peninsula and the West Coast, but a new chain has recently commenced in the Oxford district. with a hostel at Cooper’s Creek and at Ashley Gorge. Clement’s Motor Service has also given much-appreciated conecessions to Y.H.A. members. ‘The cost at the hostels is 1/- a meal and 1/- a bed. "A new regulation which should also help to éneourage the greater use of the hostels by hikers and cyclists (motor not permitted),.is that the Y.H.A, membership is now open for anyone to join, on the payment of a subscription of 5/-; for those under 25 it is 2/6. Up till the present only members of affiliated tramping and cycling clubs could use the hostels, but now its scope is much wider. "A party of 40 New Zealand Y.H.A. trampers are going to visit the overseas youth hostels next year, and it is hoped that on their return to New Zealand they will help to start youth. hostels jin other parts .of this country, and thus assist in promoting the tramping movement and make it a national one for New Zealand.. Later on it is hoped to welcome English trampers in the New Zealand hostels."