Salient: An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 11, No. 11, September 22nd, 1948
[Introduction]
The Tramping Club's programme for the Christmas vacation will include two, and possibly three, separate trips of some ten days' duration each.
The first one, which will cover the actual Christmas period, will be an eight-day working party to the Tauherenikau Valley for the purpose of completing (we hope) the Alloway-Dickson Memorial Hut. The party will leave on Monday. December 20th, and the official working party will end on Tuesday, December 28th. although those who wish to continue for the rest of the vacation will not be prevented from doing so. Certificates of fitness should be shown to the Chief Guide. By means of this marathon working party, and by as many weekend working parties as possible from now on, it is hoped to have the hut near to completion by the New Year.
The building of this hut is a big task, and we hope that all those who can possibly assist in the work will do so, not merely as a tribute to the two students whose memorial it will be, but as a very tangible and much-needed contribution to the accommnodation and pleasure of future generations of trampers. The Tau- [ unclear: erenlkau] is also, of course, a very pleasant place to spend a week or to at any time.