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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 2, No. 1 March 8, 1939

Tramping Club

Tramping Club

Every now and then when one is spending n quiet Sunday in some secluded valley, one sees peculiar creatures striding alone burdened by enormous packs. These people are called Trampers, and they inhabit all sorts of Inaccessible places like muddy streams, bush-clad ranges, cold rivers and snowy mountains. Men Trampers perspire and women Trampers glow; and all members of the species invariably look hot and uncomfortable.

And yet they always seem to enjoy it.

The best way to become a tramper, and to enjoy tramping, is to come out regularly with the Victoria College Tramping Club. And if you haven't already done any tramping, you should come out on the Sunday trips, which are usually very easy.

And all those really interested—and those who are merely vaguely interested—should attend the Annual General Meeting, which will take place in a week or so. The formal business will take only a few minutes, and then Mr. A. G. [unclear: Bagnall], one of the most prominent members of the Club, is giving an illustrated lantern lecture on tramping in the [unclear: Orongorongos] and Tararuas—the chief habitat of Wellington trampers. You will thus see pictures of places which will be visited by the Club during the winter tramping season.

And if you like skiing, or want to learn to ski, the Club will cater for you. At least two skiing trips are held during the year—all gear provided.

So, if you want to take part in the must healthy sport of all and do something really valuable in the weekends—

Join the V.U.C. Tramping Club!

"Anticipating a great demand for fancy dresses, the London office of the New Zealand Meat Producers Board circularised the whole of the retail moat trade In Britain offering to supply red, white and blue crepe paper on which was printed in gold the phrase. 'New Zealand Lamb.'"

—"Evening Post"

We can only examine in respect of the more superficial qualities on acquisitions. We cannot examine for temper, patience, sagacity, daring or any of the more vital and deeper characteristics. And so with professorships—fancy a professorship in any one of these things! If one wanted to encourage vice one should found a professorship of virtue.

—Samuel Butler.

Who so looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and [unclear: con[gap — reason: illegible]ueth] therein, he not being a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

—Epistle of James.