Catchpole or Bust

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CATCHPOLE ORBUST. Sunday, February 13th. the date, 9a.m. the time. Fourteen bods turned up for the truck, braving the inclement woather, and thinking longingly of such mundano things as beds, breckfast in same and sleep, Anyway the weather was bravad and after collecting two more bods et the Hutt we m-de for tho cow bails at high spcode On arrival, after a short come of "football", we prossed on to the Catchpolo for lunch and a brow thon minus packs on to the River. Gn routo WO pickod up tho wockondors who had beon scheduled to do a. Tapokapoka - Matthews but had turned it in through bad conditions. We oven talked some of thom into coming back to the River with us - they must have had an easy weokend. The river hed como up with a rush so on arrival we watched Frank and Don Dement, Bill Rice, Cliff Ingnire and Jirmy Ritchie fording it - great fun for those on the bank - and then high-tai ilod back to the Catchpole for 1 second lunch and a very good game of "cricket" which rether seemed to ondanger life and limb of both players and spectators. Altogother a vory good day; it might be good if some moro of the "weekend" types did some more Sundey trips * they do have something - if you can find some way to fill in the first part of the weekend. And, Bev, I don't like rocks. Terry Moore.