Overview
Sat Feb. 8.
Drizzly rain but it soon cleared off. Went round town purchasing a few additions to my library "Volcanoes" by Judd; "Economic Geol[ogy?] of the U.S.A." by Iann; "Geog[raphy?] of Japan" by Milford - + a map + panorama of Ch.Ch [Christchurch], + a panorama of the Ch-Ch - Hammer Road. After dinner took the summer tram getting out at the new road to Mount Pleasant + walked up it. Photo ½ pl.[ate] (33) Estuary + tramway embankment from Mt Pleasant Road showing in foreground alluvial-filled valley bottom evidencing slight uplift of the Peninsula. A long climb by an easy grade brought me to the Summit Track + from thence a track indicated by a sign-post leads right to the trig. The weather improved on my arrival so I got a beautiful view of Lyttelton Harbour with the town and immediately below. Photo 1/2 pl. (34) Lyttelton, Quail Is[and], Charteris Bay, Head of Bay, Gebbies Pass +c from Mount Pleasant. Mount Herbert lavas on left, Lyttelton lavas on left + rhyolites + Jurassic strata in between. Stayed sometime at the trig, then followed the Summit Track around the great bluffs of Hillmorton, descending by a dry gully to the Bridle Track + on to Heathcote. Photo ¼ pl. (35) Train[Page break]
emerging from Moorhouse Tunnel, showing Hillmorton and Bridle Track saddle from. Heathcote rly stn [railway station]. In evening walked into Square + to the Pictures at the Crystal Palace - long queues of people waiting to get into this + the neighbouring picture palace. A good program including "moving sketches" film, another good comic + "Unknown 274" (the start featuring June Caprice).
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