Victoria University of Wellington. Tramping Club

The following list has been automatically scanned from the original paper finding aids, and as such may contain typographical errors.

Box 1: items 1-10 -- Box 2: items 11-14, 18, 19 (15-17 separated - white folder 58/A/3) -- Box 3: items 20-25 -- Box 4: items 26-31 -- Box 5: items 32-39 -- Box 6: items 40-47 -- Box 7: items 48-52 -- Box 8: items 53, 54, 62, 63 -- Box 9: items 65 vol 1-3 -- Box 10: items 65 vol 4, 66, 68-70 -- Box 11: item 71 -- Box 12: item 61

VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON TRAMPING CLUB

Minutes

1. Minute book, annual general meetings and committee meetings, 1930 to 1941. -- 2. Minute book, annual general meetings and committee meetings, 1941 to 1950. -- Annual Reports -- 3. Annual reports and balance sheets, 1927 to 1941 (April) -- Note: other copies for years ending March 1934, 1935 are in 10, and year ending 1941 in 11. -- Annual reports and balance sheets for 1942-3, 1943-4, 1944-5 are in 30; for 1945-6 in 31; 1951-2 in 32; 1955-6 in 34; 1967-8 in 36; 1968-9, 1969-70 in 37; 1971-2 in 39.

Financial Records

4. Folder (in envelope), ‘Accounts year ended 30 June 1963’. -- Has 1963-4, 1964-5 material, including cash receipt book, 10 March 1964 to 29 April 1965, and cheque butts, 2 May 1964 to 5 April 1965. -- 5. Folder (in envelope), ‘Accounts for Treasurer, Sports Committee. Financial year ending 31 May 1966’. -- 6. Account Forms book, 20 Nov 1974 to 28 Oct 1975. -- 7. Account Forms book, 19 Oct 1976.

Membership Lists

8. Notebook with names, addresses, etc., of members, 1970, 1971, 1972. -- Laid in: 1. Typescript list, with amendments, from which the 1970 list in notebook has been compiled, pp.2-3, and W only. -- 2. MS list ‘People with gear out in their names...’ 1971

Records of Tramps and Trampers

9. File (in envelope Syllabus Of tramps 1928 - 42 -- 10. File, Syllabus of tramps Nov 1931-Dec 1932, Jan 1934.-March 1937; balance sheet year ending March 1933, annual reports and balance sheets for years -- ending March 1934, 1935, newspaper clippings two articles by F B T[hompson] of an early Northern Tararua crossing by a VUC Tramping Club party in January -- 1932; one by G.B.W[ilson] of a Tararua Club party’s Northern crossing at the same time; an account of a VUC party’s traverse from Eketahuna to Kaitoke at Easter [1932]. -- 11. Loose in envelope, Syllabus of tramps: Sep 1935-Jan 1936; April-Sep 1936; Sep 1936-March 1937; May-August [1937?] 2 copies; May-Sep 1938; May - August 1939, 2 copies; June 4oAugust 1939; Oct 1939-August 1940; Nov 1939-March 1940; Dec 1939-March 1940; June 1941-Feb 1942. -- Also: Tararua Tramping Club, Suggested fixture card for January to July 1935. -- VUC Tramping Club, gear lists 1935-6, and 9 March 1939. -- Circular to be issued to members of Victoria College Tramping Club - 'Tawhai Hut' -- 19th annual report and balance sheet, 1939-40 -- 12. File, V.U.C. Tramping Club Xmas Trips 1933-1937; Hollyford, Kaimanawas, Arthur’s Pass, Kaikouras, Lake Rotoiti and Travers Valley, -- 13. File in envelope, Christmas trip 1949-50 in Dart-Rees area. Includes lists of gear, food, weights, etc., recipes and narrative of trip (lacks first two pages). -- 14. Typescript, 1p., From Wanaka to Wakatipu, climbing trip - February 1953. -- 15. Scrapbook, trips 1960-1961 -- 16. Scrapbook, trips 1963-1966 -- 17, Scrapbook, trips 1966 -- 18. Scrapbook, trip lists 1967 -- 19. Scrapbook, trip lists 1968 -- 20. Log Book, Allaway-Dickson Memorial Hut, 4 June 1949 to 24 October 1955. -- 21. Log Book, Allaway-Dickson Memorial Hut, 16 March 1963 to 11 August 1963. -- 22. Log Book, Allaway-Dickson Memorial Hut, 11 November 1967 to 15 September 1968, -- 23. Log Book, Allaway-Dickson Memorial Hut, 14 December 1968 to 5 May 1969. -- 24. Log Book, Penn Creek Hut, 4 January 1978 to 8 July 1978

Correspondence and General

25. File ‘Correspondence from 8 3.28 to 31.12.33’. Includes list of active members in 1929, constitution and rules (1931, 1933), reports published in smad 1931, VUC Students’ Association Roll (1932-3). -- 26. File, ‘General File Feb 1934-March 1935 (Year’s vouchers on top)’. Includes Constitution 1934. -- 27. File, ‘General File 1935-36’ -- 28. File, [General] ‘1936-37’. Includes Tramping Club roll as at 18 July 1936. -- 29. File, ‘General File 1941-1942’. Includes list of Tramping Club members at 1.1.41. Annual report April 1941 -- 30. File, ‘Correspondence - General file, 1942, 1943-1944’. Includes annual reports/ and balance sheets for 1942-3, 1943-4, 1944-5, Syllabus for 1942. 1943 trips run by VUC Tramping Club 19 April 1943 -19 April 1944. -- 31. File, ‘Correspondence 1945-1946’. Includes annual report and balance sheet 1945-6 -- 32. Ringbinder, ‘Correspondence 1952-56’ [i.e.1946-56]. Includes annual report 1951-2. -- Laid in, in envelope: Leaflet, 'Youth Hostelling in New Zealand'; noticeboard notice of trip on Queen’s Birthday weekend, 4-5-6 June [1955], from Eketahuna - Ruamahanga river - Waingawa R - Pinnacle Ridge; 2 newspaper clippings, one a wedding photo (George Mason-Ruth Steiner), the other a report of trampers a day late on a Tararua trek; MS speech notes (?), 8 proposals on 2 sheets; V.U.C. Tramping Club list of members (not dated); Membership 1955/6 (lacks MS additions on copy in 34. -- Laid in. at back: notice-board proposal far alternative Christmas 1953-4 trip to the Urewera, with photographs. -- 33. Ringbinder, ‘Correspondence 1958’ [i.e. 1955-8]. -- 34. Loose papers in short folder in envelope, [Correspondence 1957-9]. Includes annual report 1955-6; balance sheets for years ending 31 March 1957, 1958; audited accounts for 13 months ended 30 April 1959; Membership 1955/56 (with MS additions that are not on the copy laid in 32. -- 35. Folder, ‘Complete correspondence concerning deaths of Evans and Patterson and building of Memorial Bridge, 1958’ -- 36. Folder, [Correspondence 19]’68’. Includes annual report 1967-8. -- 37. Folder, [Correspondence] ‘1969’ Includes a list of members at 1 June 1968 and annual reports 1968-9, 1969-70 -- 38. Folder, [Correspondence] ‘1970’. Includes Directory of Members (MS and 4 copies) - and pamphlet Using the Union, 1970 edition, issued by the Student Management Committee. -- 39. Folder, [Correspondence] ‘1972’ Includes 50th annual report, dated 16 March 1972 -- 40. Folder, Correspondence 1974-5. -- 41. Folder, ‘V.U.W.T.C. Records’, arranged in groups:

Publications: Heels and 'VUWTC ‘71'

Allaway-Dickson Hut [covers 1959 to 1972 - use by outside persons, insurance etc., and replacement by nearby hut 'Tutuwa' in 1972.]

Dept of Lands and Survey [Extracts from Zealand Gazette and correspondence about Tararua mountains information, 1971-2]

In Memoriam. VUWTC members who have lost their lives in the mountains Mountain Safety Council [1967-74].

[Assorted tramping clubs’ fixture cards 1968-75]

Material concerned with Tramping Club publications

42. Folder, ‘Heels copy 1963-64 from K.B. Popplewell. Includes annual report 1963-4. -- 43. Folder, ‘Jubilee Publication Names and Addresses’ Includes 2 sheets of heavy paper bearing signatures; One has a note attached: 'This list shows club members and guests who attended the opening of the Allaway-Dickson Memorial Hut.' The other has a note: 'These signatures are, I believe, from a club reunion and hut-opening anniversary held at Allaway-Dickson Hut - sorry I cannot recall the year ' [Initials crossed out , these names have dates beside them, ranging from S,A. Wiren 1921 to G. Warner 1949] -- 44. Folder, ‘Simon Arnold. Tramping Club 50th Ann. Mag. Articles by J.E.P. Thomson, J.C. Beaglehole, Ian Cave, George Caddie, C. John Reid’ [and others]. -- 45. Folder, ‘Ready for Simon. Tramping Club. Copy VUVTC Jubilee Publication’. [mainly articles set for printing] -- 46. Folder, ‘Printing VUVTC Jubilee Publication, Details of Printing to keep?’ [quotations etc.] -47. Victoria University of Wellington Students’ Association -Folder, ‘Students’ Association circulars and notices 1968. Sports Council’. -[i.e., VUW Students’ Association Minutes of Sports Committee meetings 1967-74 forms for clubs’ applications for grants and for re-affiliation, pamphlet Using the Union, issued by the Student union Management Committee, 1968?, with slip ‘Addenda - 1969’ dated 5.2 69.

Correspondence, newsletters, annual reports, copies of minutes etc., from other tramping clubs

48. Folder, ‘F.M.C. (Federated Mountain Clubs of N.Z.)’ -- Circulars, memoranda, letters, etc., 1967-75, includes annual reports and statements of accounts 1967-70, 1972, 1974. -- 49. Folder, ‘N.Z. Alpine Club (Wgtn. Sec.) Newsletters. Ski Patrol Ruapehu - 'Patrol News'. N.Z. Forest Service Work Plans and Advisory Comm. -- This material is now in 3 separate envelopes within the folder, thus: -- 49a. NZ Alpine Club, Wellington Section. -- Newsletters Jan 1967 - Nov 1975 (incomplete), Nos. 262-8, 286-8. 290-1, 294-5, 297, 299, 305, 307-19, 323, 344, 347, 355, 357 -- Annual report year ended 28 Feb 1974 -- Bulletin No 61/5, Dec 1974 -- 49b. Ski Patrol (Ruapehu) -- Newsletters / bulletins, Sep 1967 - Nov 1971 (incomplete),Apr 1972, Apr 1974 -- Minutes of meetings, 27 Apr 1972, 3 August 1972 -- Annual reports, 1967, 1968, 1970, 1973 -- -- 49c. N.Z. Forest Service -- Work plans Sep 1968 - Oct 1972 (incomplete), August 1975 -- Correspondence with VUWTC 1967-72 -- 50. Envelope, Tararua Forest Park -- Minutes of meetings, 2 May 1968 - 29 May 1971, 6 Dec 1973 -- Reports on working plans, 1970-1, 1971-2 -- Annual reports 1971-2, 1972-3 -- 51. Folder, ‘W.A.M.C. Wellington Associated Mountain Clubs’ -- Notices and minutes of meetings, March 1967-April 1975 -- Constitution, 22 August 1972 -- Wellington Regional Environment Association, newsletters Feb-June 1974, nos. 13-17.

Printed Material

52. Article on Mavis Davidson, Evening Post 12 April 1974 -- 53. The New Zealand Alpine Journal June 1940 -- 54. The University Union issued by the University Union Management Committee, 3rd edition, January 1971

Maps

Lands and Survey Department, Provisional 1 Mile Series: -- 55. Sheet S.33, St Arnaud, 1943 (2 copies) -- 56. Sheet S.39, Maruia, 1943 -- 57. Sheet S.4Q, Spenser, 1943 (3 copies) -- 58. Sheet S.47, Jollies, 1951 -- 59. Sheet N.159. Tinui, 1945. -- 60. Tararua Forest Park, Hunting Guide [1968] Compiled by New Zealand Forest Service, Palmerston North, from information based on Lands and Survey mapping

Photographs

61. Album of photographs, with dates, places and names of trampers, 1934-49, chiefly 1941-49, with some of 1967 laid in

Additional material

Received March 1987 -- 62. Minutes, March 1981 to September 1986, annual general meetings and committee meetings. Incl. Constitution of VUWSA -- 63. Correspondence file - National Park 1939 -- 64. Scrapbook -1921 to 1972. There is a gap from early 1930s to 1940s. -- 65. Heels, March 1946 - 1986. Run omits 1959, 1962, 1974, 1975 (not published?). In four plastic binders. -- 66. BAAA, 1981 - 1984. Newsletter, two to four issues per year In plastic binder -- Received 1988 -- 67. Records 1980-1985. Scrapbook with membership lists, newsletters, trip lists, financial statements, some minutes and correspondence [pasted into ‘Listener’ 7 Nov 1981] -- Received 1994 -- 68. Envelope: [Cat McBean’s file], -- Miscellaneous notes, club minutes and other records, 1984-1987 -- 69. Booklet: J.B. Butchers, 'As I recall', 75th reunion dinner address (copy 15 of 50) -- 70. File (+ floppy disk word 6): List of VUWTC members prior to 1960 compiled by Kerry and Bruce Popplewell 1996 [r.e. 1997] -- 71. Assorted regional tramping club journals eg. -- Bulletin of the Mt. Egmont Alpine Club, c1939-1951 -- Federated Mountain Clubs on NZ Inc. Annual report 1965 -- Hutt Valley tramping 1966-68 -- Canterbury University College Tramping Club c1944-62