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Word reached Timaru last night (says yesterday's Herald) that
the greatest mountaineering feat yet accomplished in New
Zealand, has just been placed to the credit of the Australian
lady climber, Miss D Faur, who, in company with Guides
Thomson and Graham, is reported to have ''colled'' Mount
Sefton (10,300 feet).
The party traversed the Fitzgerald route. This is the first
time that anyone has climbed one side of Sefton and descended
the other - a most difficult and hazardous undertaking.
Compared with Sefton, the climbing of Mount Cook is
comparatively easy.
• A public meeting of the ratepayers in Moonlight and
Nenthorn in the Moonlight School. The Chairman (Mr George
Clark) said the meeting had been called to discuss the need
of having the boundaries of the Waihemo and Waikouaiti
counties altered. Since the Otago Central Railway had been
opened the community of interest had quite changed. All the
traffic from the Moonlight and Nenthorn districts was towards
either Middlemarch or Hyde. At present the rates from these
districts went to maintain roads that lead towards the coast,
but in getting to the railway they had to use roads through
other counties to which they did not pay rates. After the
matter had been fully discussed it was unanimously agreed to
petition Parliament to have all those districts served by the
Otago Central Railway joined to the Maniototo County and a
committee was appointed to carry out the desire of the
meeting.
• With a view to refuting the charge promulgated from time to
time that Lincoln College was the resort of the sons of the
aristocracy, if such a term could be used in New Zealand, the
director of the college laid before the board on Tuesday a
list of the students and their parentage. The report showed
that the students were drawn from various useful classes in
the community, and the board unanimously agreed that it was a
sufficient reply to the charge that the institution was a
class one.
• Interesting figures concerning the average length of life
which may be expected at different ages in various States of
the Commonwealth have recently been prepared by the Federal
Census Bureau. It appears Tasmania is a good place to be born
in and a good place to live the long life in. Taking the
statistics for males during the decennium 1901-1910, it seems
that a child at birth may be reckoned to have a chance of the
longest life in Tasmania (57.7 years), and the next longest
in South Australia (56.7), New South Wales (55.9), Victoria
(55), and Queensland (54.2), and shortest of all in West
Australia (51.4). - ODT, 14.2.1913.
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