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 |Editor:|Marie B. Byles|
 |Business Manager:| J.W. Mullins|
-|Publication Staff:|Misses Clare Kinsella, Dot English, Flo Allsworth, Kathleen McKay, Messrs John R. Wood, Brian C. Harvey, W.L. (Bill) Piggott.|
+|Publication Staff:|Misses Clare Kinsella, Dot English [Dot Butler], Flo Allsworth, Kathleen McKay, Messrs John R. Wood, Brian C. Harvey, W.L. (Bill) Piggott.|
 ===== Contents. =====
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 |Are Bushwalkers Mad? |Marie B. Byles |1|
-|Bush Walkers in New Zealand|Dot English |2|
+|Bush Walkers in New Zealand|Dot English [Dot Butler] |2|
 |Wading Harry's River|Jack Debert |5|
 |Antonio - A New Dolly Ballad | |8|
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 ===== Are Bushwalkers Mad? =====
-By M.B.B.
+By M.B.B. [Marie Byles]
 Most people would reply emphatically, "yes", and in a democratic society the opinion of the majority goes. Most of us are delighted to admit to a streak of madness, merely pointing out that the only difference between us and ordinary madmen is that we know we are mad; ordinary madmen don't.
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 ===== Bush Walkers in New Zealand =====
-by Dot English.
+by Dot English. [Dot Butler]\
-Mile Hut,
+Mile Hut,\\
 /12/1937.
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 We have had swims in all the lakes and rivers and the sea encountered on our way. The water is absolutely frigid - the sea no less than the snow fed lakes and rivers - its current sweeps up direct from the South Pole. We dived in pink and supple and come out blue and stiff without our breath. "In and out" is the order of the bath.
-There's a big discussion going on below about dangerous climbers - and the various casualties and fatalities occasioned by such. I must ceaso writing for a while as I can't concentrate.
+There's a big discussion going on below about dangerous climbers - and the various casualties and fatalities occasioned by such. I must cease writing for a while as I can't concentrate.
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 Gordon and Bert and I (Dot) climbed a hill overlooking Milford Sound, so as to get a view of the waters of the Sound. The hill was about 2,500 ft. and this we expected would take us at the most a couple of hours, which we had to fill in before tea. So we set out, following up a watercourse then cut off into the bush. Gee, did you ever imagine bush could be so dense and matted - it grew up almost perpendicular slope so that we practically climbed up from tree to tree. We slipped up perpendicular rock faces - erstwhile waterfalls - burying our hands and toes in the thick featherbed moss to which we clung, (We think this must be a misprint! Ed. ) then followed a steep tree-clad ridge where the ground underfoot was feet thick with fallen trees and branches so moss-covered that we couldn't see whether we were walking on terra firma or six feet above it on rotten wood. It was inevitable that we slipped through on numerous occasions, Gordon going through up to the waist-line, cursing and swearing and nearly breaking his legs and Dot frequently vanishing from sight all of a sudden down a green mossy hole. Nevertheless it was the best bush I have ever climbed in - nice and soft on the bare feet and nothing to cut or scratch the flesh. I wish we grew such in good old N.S.W.
-You should see our cooking arrangements over here. We started out with a knife, spoon plate and mug apiece, but have now little by little lost various items of cutlery so that we take it in turns with spoon for our porridge and Dot eats from the pot with a knifes, while, Brenda  acts her best to dispose of soup with a crust of braad and a fork. The day before yesterday Jack Aitkin surpassed us all in economical cooking. He warmed up the tinned sausages in a billy of water and then made tea with the said water. All would have been well if the tin had not been varnished on the outside. Even Gordon, thirsty as he was, declined to drink the varnish flavoured beverage.
+You should see our cooking arrangements over here. We started out with a knife, spoon plate and mug apiece, but have now little by little lost various items of cutlery so that we take it in turns with spoon for our porridge and Dot eats from the pot with a knifes, while, Brenda  acts her best to dispose of soup with a crust of bread and a fork. The day before yesterday Jack Aitkin surpassed us all in economical cooking. He warmed up the tinned sausages in a billy of water and then made tea with the said water. All would have been well if the tin had not been varnished on the outside. Even Gordon, thirsty as he was, declined to drink the varnish flavoured beverage.
 There is a poor lone lad with an enormous pack down in the valley unable to cross the flooded river. Bert and Roy have just gone down with the rope and ice-axes to help get him over - great excitement.
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 Our next address will be c/o The Hermitage, Mt. Cook (till 28th. January) after which it will be c/o G.P.O. Wellington.
-Hoping to hear from some or all of you, and kin regard and the Compliments of the Seasot to the Mob.
+Hoping to hear from some or all of you, and kin regard and the Compliments of the Season to the Mob.
 From the Whole Pack,\\
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 ===== Antonio - A New Dolly Ballad. =====
-You 'member Noggs the Milkman, Ma, Poos goinl to mally Mary? Wloo always saved me lots of cream, An' telled me I'se a fairy? Well, onot he knewed a story Ma, About a fried-fish shop. I fink you'd like to hear it Ma, if only I can stop: Onolt they was two ITalians Ma, wis rings into their ears, Like the Fortune-Teller lady, we saw on Blackpool Piers. Ant a big one was a sailor, Ma, an' calls himself 'Anton', An' the other's bery small, Ma, an' so he stopped at home.
+You 'member Noggs the Milkman, Ma, W'oos goin' to mally Mary?\\
-Ant a small one kept a fried-fish shop, on a corner of a street,
+W'oo always saved me lots of cream, An' telled me I'se a fairy?\\
-Ant he'd strimps, an' whelks, an' lobsters Ma, ant lots of fings to eat.
+Well, once he knewed a story Ma, About a fried-fish shop. \\
-Ant in the afternoons, Ma, when a trade was raver slow
+I fink you'd like to hear it Ma, if only I can stop:\\
-He'd stand outside ant puff his chest, an' tell of Antonio. An' peoples far an' wide, Ma, heard all about Anton,
+One't they was two 'Talians Ma, wis rings into their ears,\\
-Of how he was a big, big man, ant weighed quite eighteen stone.
+Like the Fortune-Teller lady, we saw on Blackpool Piers.\\
-"You not haf seen my Brudder, Sah?" The fried-fish man would say, "He bery bigga-da chest, Sah Da bery bigga-da thigh,
+An' a big one was a sailor, Ma, an' calls himself 'Anton',\\
-"If anyone no pay me, Sah, He swipe-.a dem in da eye,
+An' the other's bery small, Ma, an' so he stopped at home.\\
-"He gotta bigga-da sailing ship tattooed onto d chest,
+An' a small one kept a fried-fish shop, on a corner of a street,\\
-"Da talla-da mast, da bigga-da sail - (You like-a da lobster best?")
+An' he'd s'rimps, an' whelks, an' lobsters Ma, an' lots of fings to eat.\\
-(Ma, why do 'Talians look so queer an' speak so bery funny?)
+An' in the afternoons, Ma, when a trade was raver slow\\
-(Ant do they all have bruvers, Ma, to help 'em get a money?) Well, one day, Ma, when Anton's there, a sailor he come in,
+He'd stand outside an' puff his chest, an' tell of Antonio.\\
-"You want-a da feesh, da oyster stack, da nice-a piece-a da brim?" The sailor asked for fish and chips an' sat down at a table,
+An' peoples far an' wide, Ma, heard all about Anton,\\
-An' ate a lot of dinner, Ma, as much as he was able.
+Of how he was a big, big man, an' weighed quite eighteen stone.\\
-An' Anton's lickle bruver come, an' asked him for a money
+"You not haf seen my Brudder, Sah?" The fried-fish man would say,\\
-But sailor says he's got no beans, which I fink raver funny. Why are some peoples bery rich, like lickle Lottie Morgan? At others have to play for pennies on a barrel-organ?
+"He bery bigga-da chest, Sah Da bery bigga-da thigh,\\
-Well, Anton must've heard a noise, for froo a door he dashes An' stands in front of sailor-man - a-twirlint his moustaches.
+"If anyone no pay me, Sah, He swipe a dem in da eye,\\
-An' Anton says: "You gotta pay", an' a sailor says he can't, An' Anton raise his fist ant say: "I kick-a you in da pant,
+"He gotta bigga-da sailing ship tattooed onto da chest,\\
-"If you no pay, I lift you up, an' break-a you on da table - "You tink you able seaman, eh? I make you not so able! "You see da muse, da ship I got tattooed onto da chest? "I hit you-so, an squeeze you-so, an' you go sailint-west!" An' Anton took his jacket off, an' made his muscles wiggle, But Sailor isn't flightened, Ma, for he began to giggle. An' this is haw it finished, Ma, as Anton's bruver told it: "Mine brudder Anton puff da chest until he cannot hold it,
+"Da talla-da mast, da bigga-da sail - (You like-a da lobster best?")\\
-"He raisa da fist - he hit - he miss* He make-a da little slip-Sah "Da sailor hit - oh poor Anton - da-ship - he sinka da ships Sala.
+(Ma, why do 'Talians look so queer an' speak so bery funny?)\\
-fink, Ma he'd be bery cross to go misout a money.
+(An' do they all have bruvers, Ma, to help 'em get a money?)\\
-An' see poor Anton doubled up, an' holdin' of his tummy.
+Well, one day, Ma, when Anton's there, a sailor he come in,\\
-I wisht if we could go an' see a friedopfish shop some day, I'd like to hear a ITalian talk that bery funny way.
+"You want-a da feesh, da oyster stack, da nice-a piece-a da brim?"\\
-An' that's all what the story was what Noggs the Milkman said, Ma,
+The sailor asked for fish and chips an' sat down at a table,\\
-As,t ravar Tie= feark Anllv_ eh? ATI ImmIlle off to bed. Ma!
+An' ate a lot of dinner, Ma, as much as he was able.\\
+An' Anton's lickle bruver come, an' asked him for a money\\
+But sailor says he's got no beans, which I fink raver funny.\\
+Why are some peoples bery rich, like lickle Lottie Morgan?\\
+At others have to play for pennies on a barrel-organ?\\
+Well, Anton must've heard a noise, for from a door he dashes\\
+An' stands in front of sailor-man - a-twirlin' his moustaches.\\
+An' Anton says: "You gotta pay", an' a sailor says he can't,\\
+An' Anton raise his fist ant say: "I kick-a you in da pant,\\
+"If you no pay, I lift you up, an' break-a you on da table - \\
+"You tink you able seaman, eh? I make you not so able! \\
+"You see da muse, da ship I got tattooed onto da chest?\\
+"I hit you-so, an squeeze you-so, an' you go sailint-west!"\\
+An' Anton took his jacket off, an' made his muscles wiggle, \\
+But Sailor isn't flightened, Ma, for he began to giggle. \\
+An' this is how it finished, Ma, as Anton's bruver told it: \\
+"Mine brudder Anton puff da chest until he cannot hold it,\\
+"He raisa da fist - he hit - he miss! He make-a da little slip-Sah \\
+"Da sailor hit - oh poor Anton - da-ship - he sinka da ships Sah.\\
+I fink, Ma he'd be bery cross to go wisout a money.\\
+An' see poor Anton doubled up, an' holdin' of his tummy.\\
+I wisht if we could go an' see a fried-fish shop some day, \\
+I'd like to hear a 'Talian talk that bery funny way.
+An' that's all what the story was what Noggs the Milkman said, Ma,\\
+An' now I'se get my dolly eh? An wamble off to bed. Ma!
 th. January, 1938.
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 Dear Madam,
-My Club noted with interest a small paragraph in your last issue on the subject of the Kanangra.Kowmung Reservation. My Club also expressed a desire to send you further information hoping that you will be able to pass it on to your Club by publishing it in the next issue of the "Bush Walker."
+My Club noted with interest a small paragraph in your last issue on the subject of the Kanangra-Kowmung Reservation. My Club also expressed a desire to send you further information hoping that you will be able to pass it on to your Club by publishing it in the next issue of the "Bush Walker."
 At the moment, the reserve is for the preservation of native flora and fauna and its status has not yet been decided by the Government.
-Mr. Arthur Ldwndesi tactics in securing this area will be accepted as a model in future matters of the kind. He took a Cabinet Minister and various departmental heads to Kanangra, and then compiled a petition to the Government, supported by many photographs and the signatures of representative scientific, business and outdoors interests. This he presented to the Minister for Lands, who was favourably impressed, and the result Was the gazettal notice of October 15th. 1937.
-Whilst making this explanation, we wish also to pay a tribute to the work of Mr. M.J. Dunphy who was largely ruopomible for the preservation of the old Kanagra track for the use of walkroe and whose untiring efforts in the cause of Blue Mountain reservation are wall known to all.
+Mr. Arthur Lowndes' tactics in securing this area will be accepted as a model in future matters of the kind. He took a Cabinet Minister and various departmental heads to Kanangra, and then compiled a petition to the Government, supported by many photographs and the signatures of representative scientific, business and outdoors interests. This he presented to the Minister for Lands, who was favourably impressed, and the result Was the gazettal notice of October 15th. 1937.
-I am, etc.,
-J. Gibson per H.M. Nhaite. Hon Secretary,
+Whilst making this explanation, we wish also to pay a tribute to the work of Mr. M.J. Dunphy who was largely responsible for the preservation of the old Kanangra track for the use of walkers and whose untiring efforts in the cause of Blue Mountain reservation are well known to all.
-Warrigal Club of N.S.Nr,
+I am, etc.,\\
+J. Gibson [Jack Gibson] per H.M. Whaite. [Harry Whaite]\\
+Hon Secretary,\\
+Warrigal Club of N.S.W.
 ===== It's a Terrible Strain. =====
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 The Club started the New Year badly by Hilma Galliott turning up on the official walk in a pale green silk tennis suit, or play-suit, we think they call it. As luck would have it the party bumped into the official walk of the H.H. Club, the one club above all others requiring the example of proper bushwalking efficiency. Nor was
-the worst. Flo Allsworth, the leader of the $.B.W., the leader, mind you, left h, rucksack behind and carried instead one of those handbags ladies use for holding baby's nappies. It is time something was done. The best thing would be an amendment of the constitution expelling all members who wear pale green silk play-suits or carry nappie-bags - anyhow if they meet. the H.H. Club or any other of the "lesser
+the worst. Flo Allsworth, the leader of the S.B.W., the leader, mind you, left her rucksack behind and carried instead one of those handbags ladies use for holding baby's nappies. It is time something was done. The best thing would be an amendment of the constitution expelling all members who wear pale green silk play-suits or carry nappie-bags - anyhow if they meet the H.H. Club or any other of the "lesser breeds without the law."
-breeds without the law."
-Frances Ramsay and Vera Phillips arrived safely by the Aorangi from Canada. All except new members T,',"13 recall that Frances loft us to take a teaching exchange in Scotland, and that 7- , aj a 2tC,) 7 E ,-.rezsmal:ing-business to go to the
+Frances Ramsay and Vera Phillips arrived safely by the Aorangi from Canada. All except new members wil recall that Frances left us to take a teaching exchange in Scotland, and that Vera gave up flourishing dressmaking-business to go to the same place. When in London latter reply to an advertisement for an "experience dressmaker", got the job, and found herself making the Coronation robes. So now she will doubtless advertise as "formerly dressmaker to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth."
-fleme, place. 7hen in . e ,171c a,:.iertiseLlent for an "experiencl
-dressmaker", got the job, and found hers.-Li m,--Lhg the Coronation robes. So now she will doubtless advertise as "formerly dre:=;clmaker to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth."
+Three other old friends who dropped in recently were Buster Purnell on holiday from Melbourne, Morris Stephenson from the country, and Norrie Macdonald from some god-forsaken place where it is 20 miles to the nearest tree - probably it was to provide shade that he grew a moustache!
-Three other old friends who dropne in reently were Duster Purnell on holnayf
-from Melbourne, Morris Stephenson from the country, and Norrie Macdonald from some god-forsaken place where it is 20 miles to the nearest tree - probably it was to provide shade that he grew a moustache;
+Gwen Lawrie has left Sydney to take up work in the office of the "California" at Katoomba. It will be a wonderful opportunity for her to teach hikers and tourists to "burn and bury all their rubbish and their tins and hide their bottles as they would their sins!"
-Gwen Lawrie has left Sydney to take up work in the office of the "California"
-at Katoomba. It will be a wonderful opportunity for her to teach hikers andI touriss to "burn and bury all their rubbish and theii4 tins and hide their bottles as they
+Rumour has it that Norm Colton is engaged to someone who is neither a bush- walker nor a blonde!
-mould their sins3"
-;-
+We congratulate the flourishing firm of F.A. Pallin Proprietary Limited, the leading Australasian manufacturers of camp gear for walkers, on the holding of a staff picnic to mark the centenary (or was it the sesqui - or the deci-centenary?) of the firm's existence. May it hike ever onward towards greater success and prosperity!
-Rumour has it that Norm Colton is engaged to gomeone who is niether a bush- walker nor a blonde!
-We congratulate the flourishing firm of P.A. Pallin Proprietary Limited, the
+The third baby boy this summer is the son of Bill and Pearl Chambers. He, baby Duncan, and baby Reilly will form perhaps a Triumvirate for the Club a quarter of a century hence.
-leading Australasian manufacturers of carp gear for walkers, on the holding of a staff
-picnic-to mark the centenary (or was it the sesqui - or the deci-centenary?) of the
-firm's existence. May it hike ever onward towards greater success and prosperity!
-The third baby boy this summer is the son of Bill and Pearl Chambers. He, baby
-Duncan, and baby Reilly wal form perhaps a Triumvirate for the Club a quarter of a
-;T. century hence.
-.re
 If there is and gossip that has failed to illuminate the camp-fire circle it is because the better part of "Firelight" is shining on Barrington Tops!
-.
 ===== News from Here There and Everywhere. =====
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 The following paragraph culled from an article by a New Zealand tramper in London is of very considerable interest:-
-"Hiking (the word "tramping" is even more taboo here than in Australia), is quite a popular pastime in England, but the irritating factor to a colonial is that you cant t go where you please, but have to follow the lanes and certain pathways, and all the time seem to be crossing stiles. Nevertheless walking in England has a charm of its own by the quaint old villages to be found almost everywhere. It is not unusual to see men and women in shorts with rucksacks on their backs walking along Oxford Street London at any time of the day. Can you imagine that happening in Princes Street Dunedin?" or down Pitt Street Sydney? (Outdoors the official organ of the Otago Tramping Club, N.Z. Dec. 1937 Vol. 4. No, 2),
+"Hiking (the word "tramping" is even more taboo here than in Australia), is quite a popular pastime in England, but the irritating factor to a colonial is that you can't go where you please, but have to follow the lanes and certain pathways, and all the time seem to be crossing stiles. Nevertheless walking in England has a charm of its own by the quaint old villages to be found almost everywhere. It is not unusual to see men and women in shorts with rucksacks on their backs walking along Oxford Street London at any time of the day. Can you imagine that happening in Princes Street Dunedin?" or down Pitt Street Sydney? (Outdoors the official organ of the Otago Tramping Club, N.Z. Dec. 1937 Vol. 4. No, 2),
 ==== Melbourne Men Walkers 43 Years Old and Still Young. ====
-The annual report of the Molbounlo Walking and Touring Club helps to remove the bad
+The annual report of the Melbourne Walking and Touring Club helps to remove the bad taste left by that shocking motoring article in "The Melbourne Walker". The club itself appears to be very active judging by the number of walks and the numbers that patronize them. On re-union walks they seem to average about 40 and on Ladies' Day Walks a total of about 90. The club now numbers 171, but is calling out for increased membership. The Canadian Alpine Club is doing the same thing. On the other hand the Sydney Bush Walkers complain that their membership grows too rapidly. Apparently clubs always covet what they have not. It would be an interesting subject for an inter-club debate, the question of whether a large or small membership is more desirable.
-taste left by that shocking motoring article in "The Melbourne Walker". The club itself appears to be very active judging by the number of walks and the numbers that patronize
-them. On re-union walks they seem to average about 40 and on Ladiest Day Walks a total of about 90. The club now numbers 171, but is calling out for increased membership. The Canadian Alpine Club is doing the same thing. On the other hand the Sydney Bush-
-Walkers complain that their membership grows too rapidly. Apparently clubs always covet what they have not. It would be an interesting subject for an inter-club debate, the question of whether a large or small membership is more desirable.
 (Forty-third Annual Report of the Melbourne Walking and Touring Club).
 ==== How Hikers Bushwalk in Potomac. ====
-Perhaps we do not often stop to think how differently the hiking or bushwalking or
+Perhaps we do not often stop to think how differently the hiking or bushwalking or tramping (or whatever you will) movement has developed in Australia as compared with other lands. The objects of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club show that difference more clearly than do many articles:
-tramping (or whatever you will) movement has developed in Australia as compared with other lands. The objects of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club show that difference
-more clearly than do many articles:-
+"To open, develop, extend and maintain trails for walkers, mountain-climbers and nature-students in wooded and mountain regions - - and more particularly the Appalachian Trail - to construct and maintain camp sites, open shelters and permanent camps - - to collect data of interest to users of the trail concerning history, geology-, botany, forestry and wild life - - to prepare maps etc." - the rest of the objects are similar to our own. Bushwalkers often feel very superior because they need no tracks or shelters, but how many would be willing to give up one Sunday a month for a "work trip?" And do we take the trouble to acquaint ourselves with the botany, geology and forestry of the bush we pass through? This American Club has regular "nature trips" which aim at walking a mere five or six miles so that the members may really learn about things on the way. As usual each club may learn from every other. Probably we should find their walks ridiculously tame, but they could certainly run rings round us in other respects. Bulletin Potomac Appalachian Trail Club - October 1937.
-"To open, develop, extend and maintain trails for walkers, mountain-climbers and nature-
-students in wooded and mountain regions - - and more particularly the Appalachian Trail - to construct and maintain camp sites, open shelters and permanent camps - - to collect data of interest to users of the trail concerning history, geology-, botany, forestry and mild life - - to prepare maps etc." - the rest of the objects are similar
-to our own. Bushwalkers often feel very superior because they need no tracks or shelters,
-but how many would be willing to give up one Sunday a month for a "work trip?" And do we take the trouble to acquaint ourselves with the botany, geology and forestry of the
-bush we pass through? This American Club has regular "nature triRs" which aim at
-walking a mere five or six miles so that the members may really learn about things on
-the way. As usual each club may learn from every other. Probably we should find their
-walks ridiculously tame, but they could certainly run rings round us in other respects. Bulletin Potomac Appalachian Trail Club - October 1937.
 ==== Live Wires. ====