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- | Preserving | + | **Preserving |
- | The Wild Life Preservation Society acts as a watch-dog for the State, ever on the look-out to prevent destruction of native flora and fauna, and the work it does for us is beyond praise. This year it has widened | + | |
- | the reserve and see the giant angophora in the middle of it. | + | The Wild Life Preservation Society acts as a watch-dog for the State, ever on the look-out to prevent destruction of native flora and fauna, and the work it does for us is beyond praise. This year it has widened |
- | Mountaineering in New Zealand | + | |
+ | **Mountaineering in New Zealand** | ||
A crop of newspaper cuttings brings vividly before one the keen interest taken by the N.Z. public in mountaineering and the consequent prestige and influence of the mountaineering clubs. Will bushwalking ever have the same prestige in N.S.W.? | A crop of newspaper cuttings brings vividly before one the keen interest taken by the N.Z. public in mountaineering and the consequent prestige and influence of the mountaineering clubs. Will bushwalking ever have the same prestige in N.S.W.? | ||
- | Our own party' | ||
- | climbed seven peaks in wonderful weather. The most spectacular feat recorded is that | ||
- | of Marjorie Edgar Jones who made the second ascent of Dampier and climbed a couple of other major peaks on the way back. It was a long and arduous climb, the party being | ||
- | on the go for 32 hours. Marjorie' | ||
- | Fatal Accident in the Tararua Tramping Club | ||
- | January' | + | Our own party' |
- | dragging the others with him3 They crashed on to a rocky shelf and then on to a snow-slope. It was a fall of 500 feet and the marvel is not that the leader was | + | |
- | killed, but that the other two survived. We extend our sincere sympathy to our friends of the Tararuas on the lose of one of their ablest members. | + | **Fatal Accident in the Tararua Tramping Club** |
- | Londoners Protect their Open Spaces | + | |
- | The movement for the preservation of the wild lands seems to be spreading everywhere. Our friends, the So-Pats, (Southern Pathfinders) devote a very large part of their Annual Report to this subject and it is interesting to see that their work does not stop at propaganda, as with us, but extends to collecting substantial sums of | + | January' |
- | money. Their report is accompanied by a friendly letter telling among other things of the, TD1?-1r,,r ",r1a curtrv | + | killed, but that the other two survived. We extend our sincere sympathy to our friends of the Tararuas on the loss of one of their ablest members. |
- | Walking Club in Western Australia | + | |
- | Victoria, N.S.W. | + | **Londoners Protect their Open Spaces** |
- | We have been pleased to welcome to Sydney and to our walks Miss Eileen Bass of the Tararua Tramping Club. She was introduced by Mr. Jock Macpherson whom some of /IR mat milen he ' | + | |
- | NEAT SHALL WE IN) WITH TEE POLE-CUTTERS? | + | The movement for the preservation of the wild lands seems to be spreading everywhere. Our friends, the So-Pats (Southern Pathfinders) devote a very large part of their Annual Report to this subject and it is interesting to see that their work does not stop at propaganda, as with us, but extends to collecting substantial sums of money. Their report is accompanied by a friendly letter telling among other things of their Christmas Dinner which is held in a country |
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+ | **Walking Club in Western Australia** | ||
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+ | Victoria, N.S.W. | ||
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+ | **Visitor** | ||
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+ | We have been pleased to welcome to Sydney and to our walks Miss Eileen Bass of the Tararua Tramping Club. She was introduced by Mr. Jock Macpherson whom some of us met when he was in Svdnev some time ago. | ||
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+ | **WHAT | ||
By Dorothy Lawry. | By Dorothy Lawry. | ||
- | Man is the most destructive of all animals. Of course, he is also the most | + | |
- | constructive, | + | Man is the most destructive of all animals. Of course, he is also the most constructive, |
- | the bush: | + | |
Most of the destruction of our heritage is so obvious, and rouses such righteous indignation in the breasts of all nabure-lovers, | Most of the destruction of our heritage is so obvious, and rouses such righteous indignation in the breasts of all nabure-lovers, | ||
' vandals and thoughtless youngsters just for the joy of it; shooting of helpless birds | ' vandals and thoughtless youngsters just for the joy of it; shooting of helpless birds |
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