Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 10, No. 10. July 16, 1947

Putangarua Pinnacles

Putangarua Pinnacles

Ted Bradstock took a truckful of folk to Palliser, eager to spend the shortest day of 1947 under canvas. It was a chill and wet day, too. The canvas was the club's white elephant, the mighty tent. Though it demands six strong men to carry it, it apparently served its purpose in preventing the party" spirits from being dampened.

The pinnacles are extraordinary and quite terrifying columns. At one stage a sticky avalanche threatened to engulf the party, and called forth some of Peter Mitchell's metaphors and puns.