Field Hut turns 100

December 2024

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The Tararua Tramping Club has celebrated the centenary of the oldest club-built hut in the country.  The club commissioned bushmen Joe Gibbs and Jack Fisk to build Field Hut in 1924.  It took the two men two months to build the track to the hut so horses could bring up iron and other supplies.Timber was […]

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