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 In a crowd of 15 to 20 people - and official walks often number that, and would number more if people were not partly impervious to propaganda - do you get to know anything more about people than their names and faces? Do you find out if they keep good-tempered when they are tired, whether they can find their own way through the bush, and unless you happen to be in the rear of the party, even whether they drag behind? Often I have been asked to support the nomination of a prospective member who has been on some official walk I have been on, and I have had only the vaguest idea of both his walking capabilities and his character. But a person who has been with me on a small private walk remains indelibly impressed on my mind together with all his virtues and vices. In a crowd of 15 to 20 people - and official walks often number that, and would number more if people were not partly impervious to propaganda - do you get to know anything more about people than their names and faces? Do you find out if they keep good-tempered when they are tired, whether they can find their own way through the bush, and unless you happen to be in the rear of the party, even whether they drag behind? Often I have been asked to support the nomination of a prospective member who has been on some official walk I have been on, and I have had only the vaguest idea of both his walking capabilities and his character. But a person who has been with me on a small private walk remains indelibly impressed on my mind together with all his virtues and vices.
  
-I put it to you that you do not get to know people on Club walks, anyhow not intimately enough to know if they are good bush men and women.+I put it to you that you do **not** get to know people on Club walks, anyhow not intimately enough to know if they are good bush men and women.
  
 **And What About Bushcraft?**  **And What About Bushcraft?** 
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 I do not want to decry Field Week Ends, and lectures and demonstrations may be useful, but they do not teach bushcraft. The only teacher of bushcraft is the bush, and the only guides are your own mistakes. Until you have been lost, you cannot say you can find your way. It is only in the small party that you can learn to do things for yourself and learn to find your own way. I do not want to decry Field Week Ends, and lectures and demonstrations may be useful, but they do not teach bushcraft. The only teacher of bushcraft is the bush, and the only guides are your own mistakes. Until you have been lost, you cannot say you can find your way. It is only in the small party that you can learn to do things for yourself and learn to find your own way.
  
-I put it to. you that you do not learn bushcraft on Club Walks, nor even on Field Week Ends.+I put it to you that you do **not** learn bushcraft on Club Walks, nor even on Field Week Ends.
  
 **Bush Hosts and Hostesses** **Bush Hosts and Hostesses**
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 ===== Club Gossip ===== ===== Club Gossip =====
  
-Edith Finlay(S.B.W.) and Bill Watson(Rover Ramblers) have announced their engagement, and we offer our congratulations to both parties in this inter-club event.+Edith Finlay (S.B.W.) and Bill Watson (Rover Ramblers) have announced their engagement, and we offer our congratulations to both parties in this inter-club event.
  
-We extend our sympathy to those members and prospectives who got their feet burned on a recent "official" while crossing a peaty area on the Grose about an hour's walk below Burralow Creek. This is the first bushfire trouble reported this season. We hope it will be the last. Never forget the menace of bushfires; someone's carelessness had started that one maybe a week before our party reached the spot. Be very sure you never cause a bushfire.+We extend our sympathy to those members and prospectives who got their feet burned on a recent "official" while crossing a peaty area on the Grose about an hour's walk below Burralow Creek. This is the first bushfire trouble reported this season. We hope it will be the last. Never forget the menace of bushfires; someone's carelessness had started that one maybe a week before our party reached the spot. **Be very sure you never cause a bushfire**.
  
 Did you hear of Ray Bean's splendid gift to the Bushwalker's Services Committee? The eighty Christmas Cards that were needed for the lads from all the Clubs were all Ray's work, and his donation! To each of the boys went one with his own club's badge on it. We are glad and proud to know you, Mr Bean! Did you hear of Ray Bean's splendid gift to the Bushwalker's Services Committee? The eighty Christmas Cards that were needed for the lads from all the Clubs were all Ray's work, and his donation! To each of the boys went one with his own club's badge on it. We are glad and proud to know you, Mr Bean!
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 By "Re-une-er". By "Re-une-er".
  
-We all store away our impressions and memories in a series of photographicslide-like mental pictures of the happenings We witness. When I went along to the Federation Reunion on Nov.1/2nd on the banks of the Nepean River, I added quite a few happy "slides" to my collection - may I "show" you some of my latest pictures"? +We all store away our impressions and memories in a series of photographic-slide-like mental pictures of the happenings we witness. When I went along to the Federation Reunion on Nov.1/2nd on the banks of the Nepean River, I added quite a few happy "slides" to my collection - may I "show" you some of my latest pictures"? 
--- Scores of cheery, chattering Walkers, each with a bulging rucksackltrying to squeeze into a ramshackle bus at Penrith Station, so as to &mid walking to the campspot on Fitzgerald's Creek.+-- Scores of cheery, chattering Walkers, each with a bulging rucksack, trying to squeeze into a ramshackle bus at Penrith Station, so as to avoid walking to the campspot on Fitzgeralds Creek.
 -- Paddy and others tying odd parcels and paraphenalia to the outside of said bus with pieces of string. -- Paddy and others tying odd parcels and paraphenalia to the outside of said bus with pieces of string.
 -- The lass who succeeded in securing a front seat in the bus htving to clutch to herbosom the "body in the bag", - the "special export quality" carcase of mutton, which was to become the much advertised and anticipated "Barbecue Supper". -- The lass who succeeded in securing a front seat in the bus htving to clutch to herbosom the "body in the bag", - the "special export quality" carcase of mutton, which was to become the much advertised and anticipated "Barbecue Supper".
--- The camp during two glorious sunny d-tys and under the calm serenity of the full moon that was Nature's floodlight for the campfire festivities.+-- The camp during two glorious sunny days and under the calm serenity of the full moon that was Nature's floodlight for the campfire festivities.
 -- Many little tents under the casuarinas, with the smoke of cooking fires curling lazily into the purple dusk. -- Many little tents under the casuarinas, with the smoke of cooking fires curling lazily into the purple dusk.
 -- Members of the various clubs enjoying gay and happy camerderie and the exchange of ideas and opinions about all those things dear to bush walking hearts; but with time to stop, think and chat about absent friends - especially those overseas. -- Members of the various clubs enjoying gay and happy camerderie and the exchange of ideas and opinions about all those things dear to bush walking hearts; but with time to stop, think and chat about absent friends - especially those overseas.
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