A CENTURY OF ORGANISED TRAMPING IN NEW ZEALAND
Jun 20, 2019
4 minutes
By Shaun Barnett
BOTH CHRIS AND I uncovered many delights and surprising details about the Tararua Tramping Club during five years working on the book.
Most members won’t know that one of the club founders, Willie Field, almost drowned in the Arthur River, during a club tramping trip over the Milford Track in 1926. Field, then in his mid-60s, attempted to swim across the river to retrieve a rowboat, but the current proved too strong and he began to struggle. He lost his pack and only just made it back to shore.
Field, a skilled MP and shrewd businessman, was the older of the club’s two founders, and
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