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Salient. An Organ of Student Opinion at Victoria College, Wellington, N.Z. Vol. 4, No. 8. July 16, 1941

Ski Fever

Ski Fever

Ski fever—there is an epidemic of it at Victoria, if we are to judge by the enthusiasm with which the Varsity ski-runners and would-be ski-runners took advantage of the deep snow and fine weather at Mt. Holdsworth last week-end, and if we are to judge by the disappointment of the people who could not get a seat on the lorry or something else on wheels to take them.

Some people went to extraordinary lengths to go ski-ing—Honey-lamb Kate resorted to a division of labour. She divided the labour of carrying her gear among half a dozen men; one man specialised in dry socks and another in cigarettes; and she got someone else to do the ski-ing.

Irene, with one useless leg, and Jacko cycled the sixty miles from Wellington. They were responsible for the dramatic unreality of the journey home. They hailed the lorry from the darkness on the Rimutaka Hill, and hung on behind for a tow. Passing cars forced Jacko to leave go, and with inhuman efforts he pursued the lorry—it was like an awful dream. At the top of the road we put Irene on the lorry, and Alec rode her bicycle home.

We enjoyed an hour's ski-ing on Saturday, although there was a wet mist and the snow was very soft. The girls exercised a Partley restraining influence in the hut, but Bonk told us the stagehand's story: "There is many a true British heat, sir, beats under the elephants.——"

Early Sunday morning the snow was frozen too hard for ski-ing, but the crust made the climb to the top of Holdsworth easy. Later on in the morning we were able to ski in the Northern Basin, and soon the nursery slopes were crowded, and the camera fans were busy photographing our local actors performing on different boards.