Tramping and Canoeing

More than 60 members and guests attended the first annual dinner of the Gisborne Canoe and Tramping Club held recently, when venison steaks were a notable item on the menu.

Other pictures on these pages were taken on recent club trips.

The president, Mr W. N. Bishop, cutting the birthday cake with a bush-whacking machete.

Canoe trip on Wairoa River last January

The club's patron, Chief Inspector A. D. Buchanan, who paid tribute to the club's worth-while aims and congratulated it on its growth and progress.

The Rua's Track Easter party camped by the Kakawahine River

Group en route to Waitangi Falls

Twenty-one members of the club took part in the club's Easter tramp over Rua's Track, from the Morewa Station beyond Rere, across the headwaters of the Hangaroa and Ruakituri rivers to Ruatahuna, on the Waikaremoana-Rotorua road about 20 miles from the lake.

Of particular interest was their visit to the derelict village of Maungapohatu, which once sheltered a thriving but isolated community of 400 persons.

Peter Pole, Alan Murray and David Bacon study remains of Post Office at Maungapohatu. "E.R." stands not for "Elizabeth", but for "Edward".

The Waitangi Falls

The party on Rua's track, led by Bill Peach

Approaching the derelict schoolhouse at Maungapohatu

Lunch break at a stalkers' camp near Mt. Rangitata

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The Gisborne Photo News

No 60 : June 25, 1959

Tramping and Canoeing