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The Great Tauherenikau Clean Up

November 1979 · Tararua (Smith's Creek, Tauherenikau, cricket pitch)

This text was read by OCR from a scanned newsletter and has not been proofread yet, so expect odd characters and mistakes.

in dun if vune : :' Om: : It rained and rained and rained. Sixty-eight trampers including 16:0 Tongue and: Meats descènded. on the mighty"T! looking for rubbish. A storm swollen Smith's Creek was: crossed okày, but the "cricket pitch" was flooded: Still, much.rubbish: was collected in the area between the bottom of the track and the flats. Mike Hollis says in his trip report that next: year the weather will be better (power of positive thinking) and people might be énticed into camping out. The ball, rugby/netball, and finally the clean-up produced a boomer weekend, despite the wet weather. Thanks to all, and especially the organisers for producing: such a full.programme. Di

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Sources
Newsletter
Reference
newsletter scan 1979 - newsletter p58
Text from
Newsletter scan, OCR (not proofread)
Date confidence
low
Notes
trip date not exact; published in the November 1979 issue; id uses the issue month because the trip month is not stated; text: Tesseract OCR, not yet proofread (mean OCR confidence 65.1); rubbish clean-up trip, 16 people; review note: old ratio 0.881 -> new 0.937; reviewed by re-OCR (docTR) (done)
Archive file
archive/reports/1979-11-00_the-great-tauherenikau-clean-up/report.md
Record id
1979-11-00_the-great-tauherenikau-clean-up

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