Tararua Annual Tararua Annual

TTC's annual publication,Tararua, chronicles and showcases the club's people, history, activities, interests and achievements. It features notable events in the life of the club, accounts and photos of members' trips and activities, and tributes to deceased club members.

Tararua covers a 12-month period to late October and is published at the end of November. Club members may buy printed copies of the 2025 edition. Purchase arrangements will be notified to all members in August.

Editions of Tararua from the first volume (1947) are available online.

Guide for contributors

Members are welcome to contribute articles on topics of interest to club members and reports on their multi-day trips (tramping/trekking, climbing, ski touring, cycling, kayaking, rafting) in New Zealand or overseas. Such trips can be:

• 'official', organised TTC trips listed in the Tramper and on the TTC website, or
• unlisted private trips in which at least two TTC members participate.

To counter memory fade, it is recommended that trip reports be written as soon as possible after the trip has ended.

• let the Editor know as soon as you decide to submit an article or a trip report, and check that space is available to publish it.
• send articles to Tararua Editor David McCrone -> mailto:ttc [period] annual [snail] ttc [period] org [period] nz?Subject=Query from TTC website on (04) 384 3031.
• Send texts as Word (.docx) documents, and photos/images as attached .jpeg files.

Articles and trip reports can be:

• up to 1,500 words
• accompanied / illustrated by up to six high-resolution captioned photos in landscape or portrait format, and one or two maps or other images.

Please select photos that illustrate your text, and indicate where they can appropriately be placed within your trip report or article.

The deadline for receipt of contributions is 30 September, or an agreed later date by prior arrangement.

Editing procedure: The Editor reviews draft reports and articles, corrects any errors of grammar, syntax, spelling and punctuation and may suggest amendments to the text to clarify meaning and improve readability.

Obituaries: Close friends and associates of a recently-deceased club member are invited to write an obituary for publication in Tararua, or contribute biographical information and a personal tribute. Obituaries typically include: some biographical detail; notable accomplishments of the deceased member; their service to the club and its wider interests; their contribution to the lives and well-being of club members; references to the deceased’s unique nature and personality; and a brief anecdote or two.

Standard formats used in Tararua

Location:

point 830 / .830 / true left / the road end / Ōtaki Gorge Road end

Number:

Numbers one to nine in words (except in recipes etc) / twenty-seven

Place names:

Aotearoa, New Zealand, Aotearoa New Zealand, Aoraki/Mount Cook, Rakiura/Stewart Island, Ōrongorongo

Quotations:

Single quotation marks or italics. ‘The mountains are calling and I must go'. The mountains are calling and I must go.

Tararua Lodge:

we returned to the lodge after a long day on the slopes

Tararua Tramping Club:

TTC, members of the club, club nights, the club's

Time:

9:00 a.m. / 0900 / 12 noon / 4:15 p.m. / 1615 / 16:15 / multi-day

Indices

The Tararua Index 1947 to 1990 was compiled by Michael Taylor. Trip reports are not included in this index. Indices of trip reports published in the 1970-90 editions and indices of the wider contents of editions published since 1990 have been compiled by David McCrone and are listed by decade.

See also

Beginnings of 'the Annual'

In the first edition (June 1947) of Tararua, the editor Bernie Greig wrote:

This annual magazine will serve as more than a permanent record of our major trips and as a medium of publishing historical and botanical articles. A good club magazine can build morale, create enthusiasm and stimulate further enterprise.

Members can be assured that the Tararua Tramper will not fade away and die. There is no competition between the two publications: rather, each is complementary to the other. ... the Tramper has struggled to be two things- regular bulletin of club notices, reports and brief accounts of weekend trips, and on the other hand - a magazine, at times illustrated, trying to find space for articles of adequate length on the major trips.

It has not succeeded and if it had, it could not have done the dual job well enough. Slight in size, small in print, the Tramper has not been impressive and substantial enough to maintain its place on the bookshelf. Separation of functions is the only solution.

The Tramper will continue as a monthly bulletin with notices, reports and so on the first call on its limited space, the remainder being used for the usual short accounts of weekend and Sunday trips, searches, working parties and the increasing number of Easter, King's Birthday and Labour weekend trips. With two and even three weekend trips now a common feature of club activity, the bulletin should find plenty of material remaining within its sphere. Tararua, the annual magazine, will ... record at fairly generous length the principal club (official) Christmas and February tramping and climbing trips. Second priority will go to other trips by private parties and to one or two articles of club history, reminiscences, or authoritative articles of general interest such as notes on the exploration, botany or place names of the Tararua Range or other areas frequented by the club.