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Except for the addition of one more object - "To promote social activities amongst members" | Except for the addition of one more object - "To promote social activities amongst members" | ||
- | It was a remarkable association they created. In the year 1927 comfort was at its peek. Films, radios, automobiles, | + | It was a remarkable association they created. In the year 1927 comfort was at its peek. Films, radios, automobiles, |
- | There was a pioneering spirit in the early days of the Club. Walking was comparatively new, much of the walking country was little known and unmapped. Members were united in the zeal of innovation and came to know each other intimately. Nowadays this spirit is weaker. Walking is easier because ways are known and tracks are worn. We are still lookod | + | There was a pioneering spirit in the early days of the Club. Walking was comparatively new, much of the walking country was little known and unmapped. Members were united in the zeal of innovation and came to know each other intimately. Nowadays this spirit is weaker. Walking is easier because ways are known and tracks are worn. We are still looked |
- | But one great ideal of the founders stands. In the loose aggregation of people that constitute a big city there has been formed a small community of happy and healthy people with a strong common interest. Sociologists, | + | But one great ideal of the founders stands. In the loose aggregation of people that constitute a big city there has been formed a small community of happy and healthy people with a strong common interest. Sociologists, |
The old members have handed on a wonderful organisation and tradition. The spirit they kindled, like the flickering glow of the camp fire, warms and unites us. But the Club is the people now active within it. They can make of it what they will. Its future depends on the core of members, both new and old, who work unselfishly for its welfare. | The old members have handed on a wonderful organisation and tradition. The spirit they kindled, like the flickering glow of the camp fire, warms and unites us. But the Club is the people now active within it. They can make of it what they will. Its future depends on the core of members, both new and old, who work unselfishly for its welfare. | ||
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Three new members - Gil Webb, John Thorpe and David Roots - were welcomed. | Three new members - Gil Webb, John Thorpe and David Roots - were welcomed. | ||
- | In correspondence was a letter dated August 26th from the Federation Secretary, who stated that at the July meeting the S.B.W. motion on the opening of a fund for the purchase of the Narrow Necks lands had been deferred till the August meeting. At the August meeting "it was movod that matter be again deferred until futher | + | In correspondence was a letter dated August 26th from the Federation Secretary, who stated that at the July meeting the S.B.W. motion on the opening of a fund for the purchase of the Narrow Necks lands had been deferred till the August meeting. At the August meeting "it was moved that matter be again deferred until further |
- | "It should not be thought that the ardent and visionary proposals of certain of your members are thought to be unworthy of support" | + | "It should not be thought that the ardent and visionary proposals of certain of your members are thought to be unworthy of support" |
Myles Dunphy reported that he had recently attended a conference with the City of Blue Mountains Council on the subject of the Narrow Neck lands and the Greater Blue Mountains National Park. The Council, he said, was concerned about the ownership of the Narrow Neck lands, and, in reply to its representations to the Department of Lands, had received advice that the Department was prepared to furnish 50% of the purchase price of those lands if the Council would advance the remaining 50%. | Myles Dunphy reported that he had recently attended a conference with the City of Blue Mountains Council on the subject of the Narrow Neck lands and the Greater Blue Mountains National Park. The Council, he said, was concerned about the ownership of the Narrow Neck lands, and, in reply to its representations to the Department of Lands, had received advice that the Department was prepared to furnish 50% of the purchase price of those lands if the Council would advance the remaining 50%. | ||
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Myles Dunphy also reported that timber had been removed from the Blue Labyrinth. On a motion moved by Marie Byles it was resolved to ascertain from Mr. Whaite the area from which timber was being removed, and to inquire from the Secretary for Lands (a) whether permission had been given for its removal; and (b) what was being done with regard to the Greater Blue Mountains National Park. It was decided to write to the City of Blue Mountains Council enquiring whether it definitely proposed to resume the private lands on Narrow Neck and offering the Club's assistance in the project. | Myles Dunphy also reported that timber had been removed from the Blue Labyrinth. On a motion moved by Marie Byles it was resolved to ascertain from Mr. Whaite the area from which timber was being removed, and to inquire from the Secretary for Lands (a) whether permission had been given for its removal; and (b) what was being done with regard to the Greater Blue Mountains National Park. It was decided to write to the City of Blue Mountains Council enquiring whether it definitely proposed to resume the private lands on Narrow Neck and offering the Club's assistance in the project. | ||
- | A report on the proposal to buy a new projector was received from Ira Butler. There were only about three makes available for less than £50 and these were not suitable for Club needs. The cheapest (about £17) did not cast a bright enough image for Club displays and in anothor | + | A report on the proposal to buy a new projector was received from Ira Butler. There were only about three makes available for less than £50 and these were not suitable for Club needs. The cheapest (about £17) did not cast a bright enough image for Club displays and in another |
Next business was the election of office bearers. Roley Cotter was elected Vice-President and Laurie Raynor Federation delegate. Doreen Harris volunteered as substitute Federation Delegate. | Next business was the election of office bearers. Roley Cotter was elected Vice-President and Laurie Raynor Federation delegate. Doreen Harris volunteered as substitute Federation Delegate. | ||
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Mr. Hardie' | Mr. Hardie' | ||
- | The mooting | + | The mooting |
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On 15th October there will be the greatest social event in the history of the Club. Yes, it's the 21st Birthday Party at the Dungowan! Already excitement is tense, and I can promise you a really wonderful night, full of fun and surprises. The celebrations will be continued in the bush over the week-end, and for this function many people are working hard to give us something to be remembered. | On 15th October there will be the greatest social event in the history of the Club. Yes, it's the 21st Birthday Party at the Dungowan! Already excitement is tense, and I can promise you a really wonderful night, full of fun and surprises. The celebrations will be continued in the bush over the week-end, and for this function many people are working hard to give us something to be remembered. | ||
- | On 29th Octobor, Mr. A. Stone will entertain us with some overseas films, including some which are bound to delight snow revellers. | + | On 29th October, Mr. A. Stone will entertain us with some overseas films, including some which are bound to delight snow revellers. |
Edna Stretton, Social Secretary. | Edna Stretton, Social Secretary. | ||
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"O God to us may grace be given to follow in the train" | "O God to us may grace be given to follow in the train" | ||
- | Ah no, our transport was otherwise. Peter, as all men know, is Keeper of the Gate, but in this Paradise was no curmudgeon of a Peter, peering through the grill and demanding a certificate of fitness before admission. (Rather like an S.B.W. committee.) Keys he may have had, but I fancy they perrtained | + | Ah no, our transport was otherwise. Peter, as all men know, is Keeper of the Gate, but in this Paradise was no curmudgeon of a Peter, peering through the grill and demanding a certificate of fitness before admission. (Rather like an S.B.W. committee.) Keys he may have had, but I fancy they pertained |
A wonderful Peter this, for though his halo was not visible, a Ray of sunshine always hovered about him, and often as he walked red-gold lightning darted to his side - lightning with four legs, a bushy-tail and an enchanting smile. In short 'twas Brillig, or, as some would say, a dog. | A wonderful Peter this, for though his halo was not visible, a Ray of sunshine always hovered about him, and often as he walked red-gold lightning darted to his side - lightning with four legs, a bushy-tail and an enchanting smile. In short 'twas Brillig, or, as some would say, a dog. | ||
- | As we explored the celestial | + | As we explored the celestial |
- | Again ehen we reached the holy spot where Peter dwelt, and saw Pinocchio, black, white and handsome, reclining at his ease before a blazing fire, fresh misgivings arose. The boon companion of Beelzebub, here? And did not Virginia Woolf quote the unimpeachable testimony of a bishop that cats do not go to heaven? Ah well, this must be a purer other, a diviner air, where even goats and cats and dogs were welcome. | + | Again when we reached the holy spot where Peter dwelt, and saw Pinocchio, black, white and handsome, reclining at his ease before a blazing fire, fresh misgivings arose. The boon companion of Beelzebub, here? And did not Virginia Woolf quote the unimpeachable testimony of a bishop that cats do not go to heaven? Ah well, this must be a purer other, a diviner air, where even goats and cats and dogs were welcome. |
So we settled down to enjoy ourselves, housed sumptuously in an army tent with boarded sides, armchairs, tables, beds, blankets galore, kerosene heater, primus, Aladdin lamp - in fact, all mod. cons. Here we lay snug o' nights, harkening to the little brook agurgling beneath the blackberry thicket, whence it emerged to run over some spouting, into a pool specially designed for ease in filling buckets. Here too we lay sluggardly o' morns, hearing the clear resonant call of lyre birds and currawongs, the jollification of jackasses - or, if you prefer it, the cachinnation of kookaburras. And when at least we summoned courage to poke our nose over the neat half-door, there was the sun sparkling on the frosty grass, deepening the blue folds of the hills and making a shining mirror of the distant lake. | So we settled down to enjoy ourselves, housed sumptuously in an army tent with boarded sides, armchairs, tables, beds, blankets galore, kerosene heater, primus, Aladdin lamp - in fact, all mod. cons. Here we lay snug o' nights, harkening to the little brook agurgling beneath the blackberry thicket, whence it emerged to run over some spouting, into a pool specially designed for ease in filling buckets. Here too we lay sluggardly o' morns, hearing the clear resonant call of lyre birds and currawongs, the jollification of jackasses - or, if you prefer it, the cachinnation of kookaburras. And when at least we summoned courage to poke our nose over the neat half-door, there was the sun sparkling on the frosty grass, deepening the blue folds of the hills and making a shining mirror of the distant lake. | ||
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Then, carefully excluding the goats, there was the orchard itself to be inspected, a goodly stretch of hillside won inch by inch from the bracken by Ray's untiring hands. Infant trees gave promise of flower and fruit in years to come; and past the fence ran the Ben Ricketts Highway, constructed at enormous expense of toil and sweat, giving access by jeep to the orchard and to the potato field tucked, as it wore, in a tail pocket of the hills. | Then, carefully excluding the goats, there was the orchard itself to be inspected, a goodly stretch of hillside won inch by inch from the bracken by Ray's untiring hands. Infant trees gave promise of flower and fruit in years to come; and past the fence ran the Ben Ricketts Highway, constructed at enormous expense of toil and sweat, giving access by jeep to the orchard and to the potato field tucked, as it wore, in a tail pocket of the hills. | ||
- | And in tho most sheltered grove of all was the secret garden, with its low mossy wall built by hands unknown - such a place as a lone child might have had for a playground, or a harassed woman as a retreat from the humdrum chores of the farm. Here ferns and creepers made a green twilight, and in the rich leaf mould Ray had set rows of bulbs, where already the daffodil ' | + | And in the most sheltered grove of all was the secret garden, with its low mossy wall built by hands unknown - such a place as a lone child might have had for a playground, or a harassed woman as a retreat from the humdrum chores of the farm. Here ferns and creepers made a green twilight, and in the rich leaf mould Ray had set rows of bulbs, where already the daffodil ' |
An enchanted place: but after all, was not this Paradise? | An enchanted place: but after all, was not this Paradise? | ||
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Friday 17th September was a windy showery day in the City and earned intending members of the party " | Friday 17th September was a windy showery day in the City and earned intending members of the party " | ||
- | When we reached Bimlow the clouds were clearing fast and the valley was bathed in moonlight. Everything smelt fresh and clean after the rain. This beautiful valley should be visited more frequently before it is floodod | + | When we reached Bimlow the clouds were clearing fast and the valley was bathed in moonlight. Everything smelt fresh and clean after the rain. This beautiful valley should be visited more frequently before it is flooded |
A brisk walk of about four miles brought us to a comfortable camp site under the casuarinas on the Cox . After a light supper, far tastier than the " | A brisk walk of about four miles brought us to a comfortable camp site under the casuarinas on the Cox . After a light supper, far tastier than the " | ||
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Soon after 12.30 p.m. we commenced the 1,000' ascent. The going was steep, but no hand over hand climbing. From the top, the general direction was North and North West along fairly open ridges to Euroka Trig. A high mountain out Kanangra way was prominent, also the Main Range near Hampton. Mr. Harris and Waratah Trig, on King's Tableland, stood out amongst the ridges to the West, and "The Carrington" | Soon after 12.30 p.m. we commenced the 1,000' ascent. The going was steep, but no hand over hand climbing. From the top, the general direction was North and North West along fairly open ridges to Euroka Trig. A high mountain out Kanangra way was prominent, also the Main Range near Hampton. Mr. Harris and Waratah Trig, on King's Tableland, stood out amongst the ridges to the West, and "The Carrington" | ||
- | About 4 p.m. we began to descend a good ridge into the Creek until about 300' above the water. Roy Braithwaite scrambled over the drop, but in loworing | + | About 4 p.m. we began to descend a good ridge into the Creek until about 300' above the water. Roy Braithwaite scrambled over the drop, but in lowering |
We were away again at 8.15 a.m. on Sunday. The opposite bank of Erskine Creek looked formidable, but a study of the Liverpool Military sheet showed, right against the western border, a promising ridge, going north, about l 1/2 miles downstream. We decided to go and have a look. Erskine Creek is a lovely stream - pools and rapids like the Grose - and running strongly in spite of a dry winter. There were some fine trees in the creek - because it is too rough for timber getters to come in and destroy. It was mile an hour country, and, even so, we nearly missed the creek which marked the beginning of our ridge. We still had to go a few hundred yards downstream where the steep cliffs gave place to scrubby hillside. Up we went without any trouble until the very top, where a 15' climb was necessary to surmount a rock face. | We were away again at 8.15 a.m. on Sunday. The opposite bank of Erskine Creek looked formidable, but a study of the Liverpool Military sheet showed, right against the western border, a promising ridge, going north, about l 1/2 miles downstream. We decided to go and have a look. Erskine Creek is a lovely stream - pools and rapids like the Grose - and running strongly in spite of a dry winter. There were some fine trees in the creek - because it is too rough for timber getters to come in and destroy. It was mile an hour country, and, even so, we nearly missed the creek which marked the beginning of our ridge. We still had to go a few hundred yards downstream where the steep cliffs gave place to scrubby hillside. Up we went without any trouble until the very top, where a 15' climb was necessary to surmount a rock face. | ||
- | Next we went north along the ridges. An unusual feature here was the thickly wooded and green aspect of many of the ridges - very little rock showing through. Apparently too far out and too rough to be hacked about by timbermen. There were lovely clumps of wildflowors | + | Next we went north along the ridges. An unusual feature here was the thickly wooded and green aspect of many of the ridges - very little rock showing through. Apparently too far out and too rough to be hacked about by timbermen. There were lovely clumps of wildflowers |
- | After this we went North-east and the burnt trees around The Wheel showed up on the skyline. Leucopogons (Whitoboards) and heath-like white flowers bloomed en masse, but they were prickly on the legs. We had lunch at 2.30 p.m. at The Wheel - the first water since leaving | + | After this we went North-east and the burnt trees around The Wheel showed up on the skyline. Leucopogons (Whitebeards) and heath-like white flowers bloomed en masse, but they were prickly on the legs. We had lunch at 2.30 p.m. at The Wheel - the first water since leaving |
On we went again at 3.40 p.m., travelling east to The Oaks, where a short rest was welcome. We began the final 5 miles to Glenbrook at 5.20 p.m. - no need to bustle as there was no train until 8 p.m. Pultoneas and Daviesias made a brave show of orange in the gathering dusk and Gompholobium (Golden Pea Bush) was plentiful. We were all glad to reach Glenbrook by 7.20 p.m. and freshen up before train time. | On we went again at 3.40 p.m., travelling east to The Oaks, where a short rest was welcome. We began the final 5 miles to Glenbrook at 5.20 p.m. - no need to bustle as there was no train until 8 p.m. Pultoneas and Daviesias made a brave show of orange in the gathering dusk and Gompholobium (Golden Pea Bush) was plentiful. We were all glad to reach Glenbrook by 7.20 p.m. and freshen up before train time. | ||
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- | Kevin Ardill issues this warning to all men: If at any time you are unfortunate enough to tent with two prospectives named - so help me, I'm a cad - Molly and Pat, the following routine is suggested. First untie knots in sleeping socks and pyjamas. Second, | + | Kevin Ardill issues this warning to all men: If at any time you are unfortunate enough to tent with two prospectives named - so help me, I'm a cad - Molly and Pat, the following routine is suggested. First untie knots in sleeping socks and pyjamas. Second, |
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- | __Glenbrook Creek Shot__: Ken Meadows on a rock, earrounded | + | __Glenbrook Creek Shot__: Ken Meadows on a rock, surrounded |
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Mr. H.A. Lindsay' | Mr. H.A. Lindsay' | ||
- | Many of the methods he describes are harmless enough, but others involve the cutting of trees and the snaring of animals. And these ar the most vital parts of the instruction since one could not survive without water, and native vegetable foods are wholly inadequate. If all the people that Mr. Lindsay seeks to instruct follow his advice there must be a large scale destruction of plants and animals. | + | Many of the methods he describes are harmless enough, but others involve the cutting of trees and the snaring of animals. And these are the most vital parts of the instruction since one could not survive without water, and native vegetable foods are wholly inadequate. If all the people that Mr. Lindsay seeks to instruct follow his advice there must be a large scale destruction of plants and animals. |
It is a relief, therefore, to find that most of those bodies he seeks to convert have not responded. But, he says "There is one opening: in Australia there is a large and ever-growing body of men and women who are definitely interested in this type of study. They are the members of our bushwalking clubs. Sydney has thousands of them on the rolls of the Federation...." | It is a relief, therefore, to find that most of those bodies he seeks to convert have not responded. But, he says "There is one opening: in Australia there is a large and ever-growing body of men and women who are definitely interested in this type of study. They are the members of our bushwalking clubs. Sydney has thousands of them on the rolls of the Federation...." | ||
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- | In every issue lately there has been a report of someone getting hurt. This time Dennis Gittoes was the unlucky one - and how unlucky! He was seated on a tarpaulin which covored | + | In every issue lately there has been a report of someone getting hurt. This time Dennis Gittoes was the unlucky one - and how unlucky! He was seated on a tarpaulin which covered |
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* Herbert R. Gallop | * Herbert R. Gallop | ||
* Frederick Ric | * Frederick Ric | ||
- | * Jamos M. Pawley | + | * James M. Pawley |
* Walter Macqueen | * Walter Macqueen | ||
* Walter Tarr | * Walter Tarr | ||
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* Gordon Smith | * Gordon Smith | ||
- | In the opinion of Myles Dunphy, who was Acting-Secretary than, Jack Debert should be regarded as a foundation | + | In the opinion of Myles Dunphy, who was Acting-Secretary than, Jack Debert should be regarded as a foundation |
Including Jack Debert the number of foundation members was 43. | Including Jack Debert the number of foundation members was 43. | ||
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- | HOW THE SYDNEY BUSH WALKERS BEGAN | + | =====How The Sydney Bush Walkers Began.===== |
- | Compiled from the "Minutos".book of the Mountain Trails Club | + | |
- | by Myles J. Danphy. Soptombor, 1948 | + | Compiled from the "Minutes" book of the Mountain Trails Club by Myles J. Dunphy. September, 1948. |
- | For some years prior t6 2927 the N.S.N. Tourist Bureau had directed all inquiries concerning walking tours to the honorary secretary of the Mountain Trails Club) with instructions to write direct to the inquirers. An inquiror | + | |
- | By 1926 this work hadbecome | + | For some years prior to 1927 the N.S.W. Tourist Bureau had directed all inquiries concerning walking tours to the honorary secretary of the Mountain Trails Club, with instructions to write direct to the inquirers. An inquirer |
- | time to time, in an attempt to discover how best to handle the snowballing situation in a helpful and not discouraging manner. One good rosult | + | |
- | ' | + | By 1926 this work had become |
- | Amongst those who attended M.T.C. meetings were Lazarus Pura (010, | + | |
- | A Bailey, William Livingston (oloctod | + | Amongst those who attended M.T.C. meetings were Lazarus Pura (elected |
- | In the noontime | + | |
- | (/) WALKING TRIPS ("The Sun", 2/ | + | In the meantime |
- | WALKING TRIPS . | + | |
- | lir. 3Debert | + | (1) Walking Trips ("The Sun", 2/ |
- | I should like to see In Sydney a " | + | |
- | meet and .discuss routes. places of In- | + | "Mr J Debert |
- | terest | + | |
- | Many walkers | + | I should like to see in Sydney a " |
- | with their own friends, or even alone: | + | |
- | rather than be hotberod | + | (2) Hiking |
- | ins trips: | + | |
- | valuable- to others. | + | "Miss Jess Scott writes: |
- | sugicest q free arid 44414)1 mee!inc. | + | |
- | fe.r all those who "Itit' | + | I and several |
- | ganised | + | |
- | fit .Tbe club Should. natbrally, -he open to lady members | + | (3) Walking Tours ("The Sun", 5/8/1927) |
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- | (2) HIKING | + | "Mr. Myles J. Dunphy (Secretary, Mountain Trails Club) writes; |
- | Miss Joss Scott writes : | + | |
- | I and sevoral | + | The Mountain Trails Club of N.S.W. has specialised in walking and camping tours, and the preservation |
- | Ihikori, calling him to view their uniudorned | + | |
- | (3) WALKING TOURS ("The Sun", 5/8/1927) | + | The immediate result of those letters was that the seven men visitors called at the next M.T.C. meeting held on 13/8/27: Messrs. |
- | Mr.11ylos | + | |
- | The Mountain Trails Club of N.S.W. has specialised in walking and camping tours, and the prosorvation | + | At the next meeting, held on 9/9/27, the following visitor' |
- | Tho immediate result of those letters was that the not M.T.Comeeting hold on 13/8/27: Messrs. | + | |
- | 411. | + | At the meeting |
- | dovon men visitors callod at Pawley, Withey, Bailey, Mdcquoan, wrote applying for membership. | + | |
- | At the naxt mooting, hold on 9/9/27, the following visitor' | + | It became |
- | At the mooting | + | |
- | It bocamo | + | A special |
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- | A special | + | It was decided a better |
- | . . | + | |
- | It was decided a lotter | + | Alan P. Rigby moved that "a new walking |
- | distinct from the M.T.C., | + | |
- | 15 | + | It was resolved that three absent members who had written the secretary |
- | Alan P. Rigby moved that "a new walkinE | + | |
- | -7 | + | Thereupon the M.T.C. |
- | It wat resolved that :tbroO.absent members who bad.written the socretAry | + | |
- | Thereupon the M.T.C. | + | The objects and constitution |
- | The objects and constituticin | + | |
- | MEETING NO. 2 The press notice for this mooting | + | ===Meeting No. 2.=== |
- | ) The Secretary of the Mountain Trails Club, N.S.W. (Mr. Myles J.Dee:Ay) writest- | + | |
- | It should be a matter of interest to all recreation walkers in t:le Stato, that primarily through previous correspondence in "The Sun", a new walking | + | The press notice for this meeting |
- | - All interested are invited to attend the next meeting, to be held Friday, November 11, at 7.30 p.m., Room 3, side entrance, N.S.W. Sports Club Building, 10 Hunter Street, when the constitutionwill | + | |
- | No meeting of the M.T.C. was held on 11th November. This allowed the interested M.T.C. members to attend this second meeting of 'the Waratah Walking Club". Many visitors turned up, includbg | + | (4) New Walking Club ("The Sun", 5/11/27) |
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- | As before, this mooting | + | "The Secretary of the Mountain Trails Club, N.S.W. (Mr. Myles J. Dunphy) writes:- |
- | Won, that is the way it began. R.D. Rudder and other M.T.C. members for | + | |
- | 0 While wore in favour of establishing a branch club of the M.T.C. | + | It should be a matter of interest to all recreation walkers in the State, that primarily through previous correspondence in "The Sun", a new walking |
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- | . of outdoors, mutual aid, sociability, | + | All interested are invited to attend the next meeting, to be held Friday, November 11, at 7.30 p.m., Room 3, side entrance, N.S.W. Sports Club Building, 10 Hunter Street, when the constitution will be reviewed, the personnel listed, and further tours arranged." |
- | It is not generally | + | |
- | Wo in our day are too close to the bushwalking | + | No meeting of the M.T.C. was held on 11th November. This allowed the interested M.T.C. members to attend this second meeting of "the Waratah Walking Club". Many visitors turned up, including |
- | Tho groat results of budhwalking | + | |
- | propagandists, | + | ===Meeting No. 3.=== |
- | planning will everywhere remind | + | |
- | reserve, every parkland, every troo and track preserved for the future will bo a monument to the sanity of bushwalkors, their brother | + | Held on 8th. December, 1927. |
- | authorities who helped in the good work. | + | |
- | HOW IT BEGAN | + | As before, this meeting |
- | by Jack | + | |
- | . :Sitting in a " | + | Well, that is the way it began. R.D. Rudder and other M.T.C. members for a while were in favour of establishing a branch club of the M.T.C. |
- | bushwalkors | + | |
- | ' Thoy looked just like bushwalkors havo looked for years; nobody looked | + | It is not generally |
- | buahwalkor | + | |
- | KinesBirthday | + | We in our day are too close to the bushwalking |
- | to Jonolan | + | |
- | On August 1st, 1927 the letter was printed (see Mylos Dunphy' | + | The great results of bushwalking |
- | co: , | + | |
- | It brought forth into print three other letters on the subject and to ms a warmly friendly | + | ---- |
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- | ' . | + | =====How It Began.===== |
- | Then I attonded | + | |
- | , | + | by Jack |
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- | wont on a -walk with the Mountain Trails Club, but still felt we should. form a different walking group. So after a d: | + | Sitting in a " |
- | At a later mooting | + | |
- | accept the job and by the same devious | + | They looked just like bushwalkers have looked for years; nobody looked |
- | Compared with the mootings | + | |
- | Eventually, | + | Let's go back... 1927... |
- | The law of : | + | |
- | small group of individualists, | + | King's Birthday |
- | But ovon more meetings | + | |
- | In the meartime | + | It brought forth into print three other letters on the subject and to me a warmly friendly |
- | As I said before, the bushwalkor | + | |
- | But not in 1927 Maio thembors | + | Then I attended |
- | cries of " | + | |
- | But we had our probloms | + | I went on a walk with the Mountain Trails Club, but still felt we should form a different walking group. So after a discussion |
- | ks only. Besides, | + | |
- | There was no Paddy Pallin in those days or, rather, | + | At a later meeting |
- | Healthy | + | |
- | 9 | + | Compared with the meetings |
- | carried. The latter, in retaliation, | + | |
- | Eight Hour Week-end 1928 (as it was then called) saw the introduction of "Mandolborg" (Tom Herbert) into club ranks. Older mombors | + | Eventually, however, after a good deal of "To 'The' |
- | A pawnbrokor, by name Mandelberg, had a shop in Castloreagh | + | |
- | Tom Herbert lost nothing in emulating this last trait of tho famous pawnbroker food, equipment, etc. hung from every possible, and a few impossiblo, points of his rucksack as ho rattled his way down the Nattai! | + | The law of debate |
- | The social side made rapid stridesf | + | |
- | number of members the club' s activities were so extensive that it as almost impossible to have other interests, Again, this promoted more healt: | + | But even more meetings |
- | Phrases like "loaders", "whippors-in" , " | + | |
- | others, like Topsy, " | + | In the meantime |
- | LO-t pick one or two at random. | + | |
- | "Villippers-in". New and prospective walkers invariably "he.d walked all over tho Blue Mountains'. But it was early found that bushwalking was slightly | + | As I said before, the bushwalker |
- | "Club censors" | + | |
- | Old =labors | + | But we had our problems |
- | " | + | |
- | was the caso of the young girl who proved " | + | There was no Paddy Pallin in those days - or, rather, |
- | Narrowmindodnoss | + | |
- | 19 | + | Healthy |
- | . Older members may remember the Presidential Letter one overzealous President, upon his election, sent out to every member. | + | |
+ | Eight Hour Week-end 1928 (as it was then called) saw the introduction of "Mandelberg" (Tom Herbert) into club ranks. Older members | ||
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+ | A pawnbroker, by name Mandelberg, had a shop in Castlereagh | ||
+ | |||
+ | Tom Herbert lost nothing in emulating this last trait of the famous pawnbroker | ||
+ | |||
+ | The social side made rapid strides | ||
+ | |||
+ | Phrases like "leaders", "whippers-in", " | ||
+ | |||
+ | Let' | ||
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+ | "Whippers-in". New and prospective walkers invariably "had walked all over the Blue Mountains". But it was early found that bushwalking was slightly | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Club censors" | ||
+ | |||
+ | Old members | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | Narrowmindedness | ||
+ | |||
+ | Older members may remember the Presidential Letter one overzealous President, upon his election, sent out to every member. | ||
Another crisis was on the nude bathing problem. It was a tricky business, and one or two resignations took place. | Another crisis was on the nude bathing problem. It was a tricky business, and one or two resignations took place. | ||
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- | There was even, once, a very serious move made for the club to issue efficiency badges for those smart enouph to pass tests; loaders wore to wear a special badge. Can you imagine how well we dhculc: all have looked in our " | ||
- | It may be of interest, to many members of the Federation, as well as to club members, to know that some years boforo the Federation oamo into being, a number of delegates from the Mountain Trails and 8.B.W. consumed rxpiou5 cups of coffoo in Nbckbollts Cafe an two occasions to see if the time were rip3for the formation of the Fodoration. | ||
- | Tucked away in the Debert archives are many interesting souvenirs, records, photographs of early S.B.W. days. Occapionnally in a very full life tiro permits of a quick glimpse into the pages of the past. They are good to look hack upon, and it's hard to realise some of thum happened twentyone years ago. But those intorosting incidents are a job for a pen more able than mina. | ||
- | I'll concludo with a reference to sayings that you might still hoar in Bush Walkor walls. | ||
- | Those famaas | ||
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- | _"Tho club is not what it used to bo" one Bert brothor would say when things wore not so .rosy in club affairs. To which the other brother would reply !qt novor was". | ||
- | And another ... "After all, this is a WALKING club". Then there was "Those who-talk and walk; those who talk and never walk, and those who neither talk nor walk' | + | There was even, once, a very serious move made for the club to issue efficiency badges for those smart enough to pass tests; leaders were to wear a special badge. Can you imagine how well we should |
- | . And whon there' | + | |
- | 'Maybo there is nothing now under the sun after all. | + | |
- | And ad, vory many happy roturna to you all, from one who learnt much from tho Club and its members, and fools all the bottor for having boon a Sydnoy Bush Walker.' | + | |
- | 4 | + | |
- | ALL THE FUN OF THE FAIR.- | + | |
- | T By Taro (Tho 'Llxke by ' | + | |
- | Sydney was - is - and forovor shall be, tho finost Starting point for any ovary kind of walking. . | + | |
- | .I had the good luck to catch the fever at a vary early ago - 4 to be prociso - when I Wandorod from honn one sunny Sunday afternoon -: and was lost, and found - at.tho back of Mt. Rannio - only a mile away, but enough- I' had' 'soon tho blue hills molting into distance. | + | |
- | . In thoso happy early oightios we livod a stonol s throw from Were.Patk, | + | |
- | unlimitod immensity | + | |
- | At the swath end Mt. Ronnie ever beckoned - invitation | + | |
- | 1870 - and oven Mt. Ronnie is no moral It was probably flattened. 'right out to | + | |
- | improvo the golf courso remember - sport is the only' god worshippe-d.in. Australia, No S.B.W. would waste time by slipping up there now for an_oyoful., It is on. the right of Cleveland | + | |
- | Right 1n the foroground looking south - .1s tjle immonao omoraldsaucor. --dotted with figures tiny -- but slogging liko hell = it would not ' | + | |
- | 0,0' up this hill - -any day of tho year . Sunday is best (no ' | + | |
- | In my baby days it was just scruband sandhilis right to Botany Bay - same looking oast to Wavorbyridge. Centennial park was yet to ho and .now the only evidonco of its past is the fenced in bird sanctuary.., | + | |
- | . The -cricket and agricultural grounds were very much smaller bit by bit | + | |
- | thOy nibbled and now extend to Certennial Park mad Moro Park Road, swallowing the old military riflo range with Its quarry and swimminglole at the top end. | + | |
- | On tho south side Mt. Ronnio-foll away to a large swampy area - the rubbish tip for all Sydney for over half a century, but now, ina quiet brick building with a tall chimney, thoy incinerate the samo old rubbish. | + | |
- | With so much virgin country' | + | It may be of interest |
- | 20 | + | |
- | and | + | |
- | 2.1 | + | |
- | A .delightful crook ran throujl -the flt, probably 'fed from the Centennial aroft. .. Maly a Saturday wo kids pad.dod Out then:I.-to 'boil the billy and fry thechips. | + | |
- | .., | + | |
- | -.Goebung Flat was a great dri-11 groUnil -for the military. | + | |
- | , Many a Um we kids marched back with thorn - in front or the band. Yes, | + | |
- | I said in front - authority did not mind a bit (imagine tha trouble at Canberra if any kids triad it nowadays): On ono vary special day the Soldiors killed a 5 foot, snako, tied it to a- bulrush stalk and yours truly had tho honour | + | |
- | home for a bolting - yea, you gue.sse.d, right -it was Mum the .lookout for. the little wretch who would not stay homo! Ldng, long, ago a cove who know this was going to happen wrote "sic transit gloria Inindi", | + | |
- | Another marvollous turnout. for bush-minded kids wail a real .wild. west | + | |
- | brought from Amorica by Dr.. Carver; a glass" ball sharp shooter. There wore real . POwboys, with their. ovm horses! Envy mo, you kids of all ages, saw- and oven spoko to real livo injuns ' | + | |
- | wood is still doing. Pity the poor -collUloid inoculated kids of today they - | + | |
- | have. -ovorything, | + | |
- | . We kida.had another camping ground right at homs in a' paddock now hou.s.ins the. Black. and White Cab Company. We had good roomy twits which cost exactly nothing. HOW? Simple. In those generous days .chaff . and cornbags could be had for the asking, especially by tho.eu.per-aakers. We unpicked them and re-made-them into A tents, floors and all. Happy, happy, Saturdays: Of course the tents wore not rainproof, but, somehow ire wore always home when it ,rained - Mum saw to s | + | |
- | that, -alai: | + | |
- | Sad to rolgte, Dad changed his job, and we moved over right next to Redfern Railway Station. The hish wandering gave way to the .fascination of choo. choos, not Ei. bad .exchange - I still lovo the iron horoos.: | + | |
- | . | + | |
- | Luck was still with mo - was parlaying with a storkio talkie, oo II was | + | |
- | sent to' an aunt at Mosm9.n Bay, enchantment for yours truly' as it did not includo | + | |
- | School again, but not in Crown Street, Whore, from the top floor classroom I could soe my blue hills to Gangorang any day. In duo course I arrived at the stage of the first job - in the City. It was a fine excuso for rots mor6 walking - most of the toilers walked to work, though there were cissies of course, who would snatch a lift. Plenty of two horso tabletop lorries trotted to town early ovory day, and lots of youngs and no so youngs would leap up and sit dhouldor to shouldor, loaving sow 40 logs dangling like a fringo all round. The drivers and the noddios novor minded a bit - in those good old civilised days before the . poison of progress. | + | |
- | Boing thorn fairly affluent on 5/- por week, out of which I collected 6d., I saved and bou7ht a atop watch - hold your breath - it cost um 7/6d. nowl | + | |
- | Aftor that ovory walk was a flat out, with one eyo on the watch. Strange to relate, those distancos are still there quite unaltered. If any of you Teel inclinod you may havo a go at than. Leave the G.P.O. in Goorgo Street at peak hour and arrivo at Orchard' | + | |
- | A favourite Sunday morning walk was from Railway Square, across Redforn, | + | |
- | /-throut Centennial and Wavorlgrto Bondi Beach; and thoro was not a brick or a house in sight: Just sand and struggling scrub. The beach was tough, but easier than the scrubs then on top of the ridge wtls a hard road loading to the lighthouse. .A look over the Gap, than back via Rose Bay and Darlinghurst in time for lunch. This was all about 1895-6. | + | |
- | A biggor walk was Parramatta and back (in 6 hairs). The bush (Rateay' | + | |
- | the road after that. The Bath Arms at Burwood 'was the next special spot - it had a water. tap - also othors - but not for mo. The really wide open spaces began after leaving Homobush, noxt landmark | + | |
- | bit hardor, taking the train hone. Mk diary records the time for ovary mile - . 12, | + | |
- | Anothor lonely and bushy walk was out to MaroubrA, which was exactly as North Era is now, but quito Shelterless save for one stony outcrop, Which had a lonely drip, drip into a jam tin. Tho track on to La Porous was real National Park stuff, I never crossod to Kurnoll because no boats ran in those days. But I did get there - 40 years lator. | + | |
- | About 1900 Mr. S. Hordorn used to keep no in odd cash. I worked on tho fourth floor of the factory and, once again, by infloxiblo fato, the blue to Gangorang was mine any clear day. Than I dnangod to a job at Clydo, which drove me to' | + | |
- | To get back to the track again - in 1900 we dhaps had a rogular Sanday walk to Bronto. We loft about 6, going out through Centennial Park - dowy and lovoly always - to WavorITtram terminus. Then, tic), for a wild dive glide and | + | |
- | slide, skiing down the sandy runways and tufty grass, and after that the ehampagns of' | + | |
- | Than began a long spell of week-and camping at Little Coogeo - fussily called Clovolly nowadays. Half a dozen pals would go out on Friday nights and stay till sunsot on Sunday, often spending a wholo 1/- at a drama or opera on Saturday night - than home to tontvillo and a cuppa, and porchanco a swim: Pluto wallowing in luxury: We loft all our goods in the 9X7 tent and in years never lost a thing. But now - not only the contonts, but the tent itself would' bo pinched! Yea, I'll say progress is a mockorl The whole outfit primus and all - no wood out there - was packed in a standing cupboard and stored at a nearby cottago. Think of thia, you buroaucratm.bouncod citizens! For yoars wo oroctod that tent on a public rosorvo, and never askod pormission from anyono, and wore ?lover interfered with. Today, if you wantod to put up a tent in your own backyard, some damned ordinance or tinpot councillor would forbid. | + | |
- | So thoro you are, brothers and sisters, we soniloiors had all the fun of tho fair for noarly nix - poor in cash - bat rich in freedom. | + | |
- | Millionaires] | + | |
- | MY EARLY CONTACTS WITH THE 6.B.W. | + | |
- | .7 By Allan Hardie. 7 | + | |
- | * ESvid Stead' | + | |
- | with tho S.B.W., this club was just omorging from its embryonic stago and ontor- - ing on its cartilaginous epoch, inasmuch as vioits to each other' | + | |
- | But that was not always so. When I jainod S.B.W., they did not make you do any test walks: rather they solicited and invoiglod you into the club. Moreover, there wore so few that you wore thrown together with the Darla persons, whenever | + | |
- | you wont out on an official walk. Hence the early club members got to know each | + | |
- | other intimately: they know each other' | + | |
- | songs about each other. | + | |
- | - | + | |
- | It was on Now Year's Eve, the 31st Dbcombor, 1927, when I fi*Eitom4 members of S.B.W.. With my Scotch friend, I had walked over twenty-four miles hat day from Boll to Bilpin (noar Kurrajong Heights), and was fooling very tik.od as I prepared our camp for the night. Along the road cam four walkers, | + | |
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- | .join it. Then ho began to unfold to me tho wisdom they had gained by forming a club, which allowod thorn to pool their ideas. The straps of one 's haversack need not hurt tho, shoulders, he oxplainod, becauso a towol placed around tho neck end .under tho straps would act as a pad. Nor nood ono havo to put up-. with the torture of blistered foot: after lotting out the wator with a noodle, a pioco of sticking plastor placod over the blistor.would act tts a nOw skin. I marvollod at this colloctivo knowlodgo. Thom one of the girls spoko of their having dono a walk in the moonlight to Mount. Wilson, | + | |
- | odour to his hoart' | + | |
- | During 1928 I loot my walking companion, he having becomo a Sunday School teacher and obsossod with tho idea that walking on the. Sabbath was irreverent. So, forced to seek now company, I looked up tho visiting card, rang up Mr. Kilpatrick, and attended my first mooting of the Club, then in promises above tho Boy Scout Shop in George Street, toward the end of 1928. A visiting speaker had just iten a discourse on the art of carrying equipment, which was followed by an "all inn and "free for all" discussion. Two schools of thought emerged, those in favour of the rucksack newly coming into vogue, and those championing tho caUto 'a the military haversack, while a third minority group, led by Mylos amphy, waged a kind of guerrilla war with argumcmts for tho swagman s way of bearing his burden. | + | |
- | Next came my first .walk and camp with*tho CEA. I say " | + | |
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- | My next walk was out to Bushwalkorel Basin from Letimoah on the following. Australia Day wook-end. :With furtive .glances Frank amcan obsorvod.nv form over the four miles, and beford the end of January I was a member of tho Club.. | + | |
- | Next Easter came rffy first really strenuous walk with the Club - from Blackheath along the Grose River toRiehiond in the days when tracks had not properly been made. Only six persons (four men and two girls) turned up, so strenuous the trip promised to be, and the leadership was left to an eighteen-year old prospective (how the times have changed!), a ruddy-cheeked youth whose only topic of conversation was his description of solo walks to Kanangra Walls and Thurat Tops. In this way I met Max Gentle. | + | |
- | But what impressed ma moat of iri tilos early-days | + | |
- | 4 | + | Tucked away in the Debert archives are many interesting souvenirs, records, photographs of early S.B.W. days. Occasionally in a very full life time permits of a quick glimpse into the pages of the past. They are good to look back upon, and it's hard to realise some of them happened twenty-one years ago. But those interesting incidents are a job for a pen more able than mine. |
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- | Trojans, was enacted in their backyard to the accompaniment of barking from their neighbours' | + | I'll conclude with a reference to sayings that you might still hear in Bush Walker walls. |
- | their prizo they wore allowed to havo tho first pick of tho, victuals for supper. | + | |
- | So the Club wail kept together in the early day.av | + | Those famous - or was it infamous - Bert Bros. (Her-Bert and Der-Bert) had one that cropped up with monotonous regularity. |
- | GARAWARRA. | + | |
- | OUR MAIL:EN. EFFORT IN CONSERVATION. | + | "The club is not what it used to be" one Bert brother would say when things were not so rosy in club affairs. To which the other brother would reply "It never was" |
- | By Tom Herbert. | + | |
- | r | + | And another ... "After all, this is a WALKING club". Then there was "Those who talk and walk; those who talk and never walk, and those who neither talk nor walk" |
- | Our Club now looks back. over 21 years of its history,end not :the-I-east of the | + | |
+ | And when there' | ||
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+ | Maybe there is nothing new under the sun after all. | ||
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+ | And so, very many happy returns to you all, from one who learnt much from the Club and its members, and feels all the better for having been a Sydney Bush Walker. | ||
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+ | * Name proposed by Maurie Berry - Ed. | ||
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+ | =====All The Fun Of The Fair.===== | ||
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+ | By Taro (The Duke by Fluke). | ||
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+ | Sydney was - is - and forever shall be, the finest starting point for any every kind of walking. | ||
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+ | I had the good luck to catch the fever at a very early age - 4 to be precise - when I wandered from home one sunny Sunday afternoon - and was lost, and found - at the back of Mt. Rennie - only a mile away, but enough - I had seen the blue hills melting into distance. | ||
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+ | In those happy early eighties we lived a stone' | ||
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+ | At the south end Mt. Rennie ever beckoned - invitation to a much wider horizon. Right nearby was Mt. Steele, with a properly rigged flagpole fenced in, and now the flagpole has vanished - only the concrete base remains, inscribed 1870 - and even Mt. Rennie is no more! It was probably flattened right out to improve the golf course - remember - sport is the only god worshipped in Australia. No S.B.W. would waste time by slipping up there now for an eyeful. (It is on the right of Cleveland Street when you are going to Anzac Avenue.) Right 1n the foreground looking south - is the immense emerald saucer - dotted with figures - tiny - but slogging like hell - it would not be at butterflies - so what? Beyond is Kensington and a vast stretch of Botany Bay blue - beyond the blue all the slopes of Sutherland - come round again and you see all the close packed Illawarra suburbs - and over them the southern slopes where Jollore lies. Due west are all our old friends, beginning at Prospect 24 miles away and skylining at Gangerang and Katoomba. Then on to Kurrajang falling down Colo way, then all the hills district towards Hornsby, and the bridge colossal, joining two big city blocks. Curiously this same aspect may be had by looking down Pitt Street at the G.P.O. The east view begins with the tops of a magnificent cluster of old Moreton Bay figs right at your feet, thence on to Centennial Park and Waverley Heights. Stop - shame on me - I almost forgot to tell you there is a fine if distant view of Randwick racecourse buildings. | ||
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+ | Go up this hill - any day of the year - Sunday is best (no smoke) and you will have it all to yourself. Millions rush by N.S.E.W. and all that fine panorama gapes for an admirer. | ||
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+ | In my baby days it was just scrub and sandhills right to Botany Bay - same looking east to Waverley ridge. Centennial Park was yet to be and now the only evidence of its past is the fenced in bird sanctuary. Do you know it? | ||
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+ | The cricket and agricultural grounds were very much smaller - bit by bit they nibbled and now extend to Centennial Park mad Moore Park Road, swallowing the old military rifle range with its quarry and swimming hole at the top end. On the south side Mt. Rennie fell away to a large swampy area - the rubbish tip for all Sydney for over half a century, but now, in a quiet brick building with a tall chimney, they incinerate the same old rubbish. | ||
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+ | With so much virgin country so near, it was easy to get the gentle habit of bushwalking. Where now is Kensington was known as Geebung Flat, whoppers they were too. It was also the haunt of the biggest and goldenest beetles I've ever seen. The toll bar cottage was just about where all the tram crashes occur - something spooky about this. There was a stone drinking fountain at Cleveland Street corner. I believe it is still there with its date chiselled on the front. | ||
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+ | A delightful creek ran through the flat, probably fed from the Centennial area. Many a Saturday we kids padded out there to boil the billy and fry the chips. | ||
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+ | Geebung Flat was a great drill ground for the military. The volunteers - yes, I said volunteers - in bright red coats, blue straw and snowy helmets - marched out there, band and all, on many a Saturday afternoon. | ||
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+ | Many a time we kids marched back with them - in front or the band. Yes, I said in front - authority did not mind a bit (imagine the trouble at Canberra if any kids tried it nowadays). On one very special day the soldiers killed a 5 foot snake, tied it to a bulrush stalk and yours truly had the honour of marching ahead with the trophy while the band did its FF best with Mr. Gounod' | ||
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+ | Another marvellous turnout for bush-minded kids was a __real__ wild west show brought from America by Dr. Carver, a glass ball sharp shooter. There were real cowboys, with their own horses! Envy me, you kids of all ages, I saw and even spoke to real live Injuns with their wives and kids and wigwams! An extremely large cowboy showed me how to hold, fold and throw a lasso. I haven' | ||
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+ | We kids had another camping ground right at home in a paddock now housing the Black and White Cab Company. We had good roomy tents which cost exactly nothing. HOW? Simple. In those generous days chaff and cornbags could be had for the asking, especially by the super-askers. We unpicked them and re-made them into A tents, floors and all. Happy, happy, Saturdays. Of course the tents were not rainproof, but somehow we were always home when it rained - Mum saw to that, alas! | ||
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+ | Sad to relate, Dad changed his job, and we moved over right next to Redfern Railway Station. The bush wandering gave way to the fascination of choo choos, not a bad exchange - I still love the iron horses. | ||
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+ | Luck was still with me - Mum was parlaying with a storkie talkie, so I was sent to an aunt at Mosman Bay, enchantment for yours truly as it did not include school! It was just a bush road from the ferry to the house. Luck again - Unkie had a pash for what they called gypsy teas - they just cooked everything, packed, and about 5 p.m. ambled off to a cosy nook or beach to boil the billy and master the puddens. Heaven indeed! Balmoral Beach was the favourite and the track down from the main road was exactly like the (private) tracks we used have down to North Era. We generally had the whole beach to ourselves, often staying till after dark, then ho for a glorious moonlight walk home through scented bush! Cedar rowboats could be hired for a bob or two and Unkie took me miles round all the little coves and beaches which still abide at lovely Mosman. | ||
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+ | School again, but not in Crown Street, where, from the top floor classroom I could see my blue hills to Gangerang any day. In due course I arrived at the stage of the first job - in the City. It was a fine excuse for lots more walking - most of the toilers walked to work, though there were cissies of course, who would snatch a lift. Plenty of two horse tabletop lorries trotted to town early every day, and lots of youngs and no so youngs would leap up and sit shoulder to shoulder, leaving some 40 legs dangling like a fringe all round. The drivers and the neddies never minded a bit - in those good old civilised days before the poison of progress. | ||
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+ | Being then fairly affluent on 5/- per week, out of which I collected 6d., I saved and bought a stop watch - hold your breath - it cost me 7/6d. new! | ||
+ | |||
+ | After that every walk was a flat out, with one eye on the watch. Strange to relate, those distances are still there quite unaltered. If any of you feel inclined you may have a go at them. Leave the G.P.O. in George Street at peak hour and arrive at Orchard' | ||
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+ | A favourite Sunday morning walk was from Railway Square, across Redfern, through Centennial and Waverley to Bondi Beach; and there was not a brick or a house in sight! Just sand and struggling scrub. The beach was tough, but easier than the scrub, then on top of the ridge was a hard road loading to the lighthouse. A look over the Gap, then back via Rose Bay and Darlinghurst in time for lunch. This was all about 1895-6. | ||
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+ | A bigger walk was Parramatta and back (in 6 hours). The bush (Ramsay' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Another lonely and bushy walk was out to Maroubra, which was exactly as North Era is now, but quite shelterless save for one stony outcrop, which had a lonely drip, drip into a jam tin. The track on to La Perouse was real National Park stuff, I never crossed to Kurnell because no boats ran in those days. But I did get there - 40 years later. | ||
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+ | About 1900 Mr. S. Hordern used to keep me in odd cash. I worked on the fourth floor of the factory and, once again, by inflexible fate, the blue to Gangerang was mine any clear day. Than I changed to a job at Clyde, which drove me to live at Auburn, where, after long seeking, I found the allotment which gave me my lifelong blue distance for keeps! | ||
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+ | To get back to the track again - in 1900 we chaps had a regular Sunday walk to Bronte. We left about 6, going out through Centennial Park - dewy and lovely always - to Waverley tram terminus. Then, ho, for a wild dive, glide and slide, skiing down the sandy runways and tufty grass, and after that the champagne of Bronte baths! A play and a bask, then a walk back again to a late breakfast about 10 a.m. No one dreamed of tramming, it would have seemed ridiculous. | ||
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+ | Then began a long spell of week-end camping at Little Coogee - fussily called Clovelly nowadays. Half a dozen pals would go out on Friday nights and stay till sunset on Sunday, often spending a whole 1/- at a drama or opera on Saturday night - then home to tentville and a cuppa, and perchance a swim! Plutos wallowing in luxury! We left all our goods in the 9X7 tent and in years never lost a thing. But now - not only the contents, but the tent itself would be pinched! Yes, I'll say progress is a mocker! The whole outfit - primus and all - no wood out there - was packed in a standing cupboard and stored at a nearby cottage. Think of this, you bureaucrat-bounced citizens! For years we erected that tent on a public reserve, and never asked permission from anyone, and were never interfered with. Today, if you wanted to put up a tent in your own backyard, some damned ordinance or tinpot councillor would forbid. | ||
+ | |||
+ | So there you are, brothers and sisters, we sonileiers had all the fun of the fair for nearly nix - poor in cash - bat rich in freedom. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Millionaires! | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====My Early Contacts With The S.B.W.===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | By Allan Hardie. | ||
+ | |||
+ | David Stead' | ||
+ | |||
+ | But that was not always so. When I joined S.B.W., they did not make you do any test walks: rather they solicited and inveigled you into the club. Moreover, there were so few that you were thrown together with the same persons, whenever you went out on an official walk. Hence the early club members got to know each other intimately: they knew each other' | ||
+ | |||
+ | It was on New Year's Eve, the 31st December, 1927, when I first met members of S.B.W. With my Scotch friend, I had walked over twenty-four miles that day from Bell to Bilpin (near Kurrajong Heights), and was feeling very tired as I prepared our camp for the night. Along the road came four walkers, two men and two women, all carrying packs. One of the men gave me a visiting card, and introduced himself to me as Mr. Charles Kilpatrick, telling me that he was the Honorary Secretary of a newly-formed club in Sydney, and invited me and my mate to join it. Then he began to unfold to me the wisdom they had gained by forming a club, which allowed them to pool their ideas. The straps of one's haversack need not hurt the shoulders, he explained, because a towel placed around the neck and under the straps would act as a pad. Nor need one have to put up with the torture of blistered feet: after letting out the water with a needle, a piece of sticking plaster placed over the blister would act as a new skin. I marvelled at this collective knowledge. Then one of the girls spoke of their having done a walk in the moonlight to Mount Wilson, and I was thrilled to the core with thoughts of romance. The other girl continued the conversation by speaking of an ingenious member of their party who had invented a shower bath, which he suspended from the bough of a tree, pouring hot water into it, and cleansing himself of his body odour to his heart' | ||
+ | |||
+ | During 1928 I lost my walking companion, he having become a Sunday School teacher and obsessed with the idea that walking on the Sabbath was irreverent. So, forced to seek new company, I looked up the visiting card, rang up Mr. Kilpatrick, and attended my first meeting of the Club, then in premises above the Boy Scout Shop in George Street, toward the end of 1928. A visiting speaker had just given a discourse on the art of carrying equipment, which was followed by an "all in" and "free for all" discussion. Two schools of thought emerged, those in favour of the rucksack newly coming into vogue, and those championing the cause of the military haversack, while a third minority group, led by Myles Dunphy, waged a kind of guerrilla war with arguments for the swagman' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Next came my first walk and camp with the Club. I say " | ||
+ | |||
+ | My next walk was out to Bushwalker' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Next Easter came my first really strenuous walk with the Club - from Blackheath along the Grose River to Richmond in the days when tracks had not properly been made. Only six persons (four men and two girls) turned up, so strenuous the trip promised to be, and the leadership was left to an eighteen-year old prospective (how the times have changed!), a ruddy-cheeked youth whose only topic of conversation was his description of solo walks to Kanangra Walls and Thurat Tops. In this way I met Max Gentle. | ||
+ | |||
+ | But what impressed me most of all in those early days were the house-warming parties, which found their place in the walks programme. At the Duncan' | ||
+ | |||
+ | So the Club was kept together in the early days, the days of the tireless | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Garrawarra - Our Maiden Effort In Conservation.===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | By Tom Herbert. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Our Club now looks back over 21 years of its history, | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Club, of course, does not claim all the credit for the victory, but it is justly proud of the part it played with kindred clubs and organisations in preserving for posterity a choice area of coastal bushland that will always be a joy of recreational walkers and campers. | ||
+ | |||
+ | The name Garawarra is a combination of Gara (Garie) and Illawarra, and was suitably chosen when bushwalkers started the agitation for the resumption of the Gara Estate and surrounding bushland, totalling in all 5,000 acres. The full objective was not achieved and at present the reserve consists of 1,465 acres adjoining the southern boundary of National Park, with the privately owned lands at North Era; Era, and the head of Black Gin Creek breaking a continuous reserve of glorious coastal scenery. Even the gem of the Reserve, Burning Palms beach, is somewhat tarnished by the presence of many unsightly shacks on the southern slope of the northern headland in the Gara Estate. | ||
+ | |||
+ | The first record we have of a bushwalker " | ||
+ | |||
+ | The name " | ||
+ | |||
+ | As time went on the need for protecting the place became of first rate urgency. Timber getters had become active, hunters with rifles and dogs were playing havoc, the wild flower glutton was reaping a harvest, and cattle roamed their wilful way. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Myles Dunphy, as Secretary of the Mountain Trails Club, one of the very few walking Clubs of the day, had his Club pressing hard for reservation, | ||
+ | |||
+ | In 1927 the Sydney Bush Walkers came into existence and some Mountain Trails Club members were actively associated with the new club, which was open to both sexes. Right at its birth the S.B.W. met its first conservation task and as the Club's membership grew so did the intensity for " | ||
+ | |||
+ | During the depression years of the early 1930's bushwalking became more and more popular, and those genuinely attracted to bushwalking as distinct from the passing vogue of " | ||
+ | |||
+ | An important step in the campaign was the formation in 1932 of the New South Wales Federation of Bush Walking Clubs, thus bringing together for combined action the whole bushwalking fraternity. The immediate and urgent objective was Garawarra. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Publicity in the press, printed handbills, deputations to Ministers of the Crown, and correspondence with all organisations likely to be sympathetic, | ||
+ | |||
+ | The work of obtaining these signatures was immense, as large numbers of non-club walkers had to be contacted at Railway Stations and in the bush at week ends, and other people genuinely interested had to be sought out. | ||
+ | |||
+ | In due course the petition was presented to the Minister for Lands, the Hon. E.A. Buttenshaw, and the outcome was the dedication of 1,300 acres for public recreation on August 17, 1934. The new reserve was named Garawarra Park and there was a definite promise from the Minister that as long as he was Minister for Lands Garawarra would remain roadless, although it was not officially recognised as a primitive area. | ||
+ | |||
+ | On January 25th, 1935 seven trustees were appointed to control Garawarra Park. They were Messrs. H.W. Whiddon and W.F. Leighton Bailey, of the National Park Trust, E.J. Ryan and A.H. Fackender of the Bulli Shire Council, J.V. Turner and W.J.Roots of the N.S.W. Federation of Bush Walking Clubs, and G.P. Allman, Under Secretary for Lands. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Joe Turner and Wal Roots were two S.B.W, members who had done yeomen service in the fight for Garawarra, and it was fitting that they should be elected to act as Bushwalkers' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Theo Atkinson (Rucksack Club) replaced Wal Roots when he resigned, and I replaced Joe Turner when he resigned. | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Bushwalkers' | ||
+ | |||
+ | In the depression years and prior to the Park being dedicated many shacks and permanent camps were erected in the vicinity of Burning Palms, and one shack in the jungle south of Burning Palms had been built of trunks of palm trees. Horrible damage had been done to the natural landscape and despite stubborn resistence the unauthorised squatters were ejected from the Park. | ||
+ | |||
+ | A few well-conducted permanent campers who had been there for some years before the Park was dedicated were allowed to remain under permissive occupancy, and the revenue from their rentals helps to finance the Park administration, | ||
+ | |||
+ | Small additions to the original grant have brought the total acreage to 1,465. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Garawarra has to some extent recovered from the blitz of the vandals of years ago, and for the last ten years a ranger has been paid to patrol the Park at week-ends. | ||
+ | |||
+ | What Garawarra could have been but for the efforts of Bushwalkers is vividly illustrated by the village of shacks and humpies that appal the eye on the adjoining Gara Estate. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====How Blue Gum Forest Was Saved From The Axe.===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | In 1931 Mr. C. Hungerford, farmer, of Bilpin, obtained a Conditional Purchase Lease in the valley of the Grose River which included what is now Reserve 63,521. On the Eight-Hour Week-end he started to ringbark the trees on that flat, but, fortunately, | ||
+ | |||
+ | At that time there was no N.S.W. Federation of Bush Walking Clubs (it was formed in July, 1932) so, from the members of the Mountain Trails Club, the Sydney Bush Walkers and the Wild Like Preservation Society of Australia was formed the Blue Gum Forest Committee, viz:- | ||
+ | |||
+ | * M.T.C.: Messrs. Myles J. Dunphy and Alan P. Rigby; | ||
+ | * S.B.W.: Messrs. Harold Chardon, Walter Roots, Noel Griffiths and Joe Turner; | ||
+ | * W.L.P.S.: Mr. Roy F. Bennett. | ||
+ | |||
+ | On 12th February, 1932, Miss Dorothy Lawry was elected to fill the vacancy on the Committee caused by Mr. Chardon' | ||
+ | |||
+ | The arrangement with Mr. Hungerford was confirmed at a meeting the Committee had with him in The Blue Gum Forest on 15th November, 1931, at which Mr. J.C. Lockley (" | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Wild Life Preservation Society donated £25, bushwalkers and tree lovers gave £25, and Mr. W.J. Cleary lent the Committee £80 free of interest for two years, so Mr. Hungerford received his £150. The Blue Gum Forest Committee then arranged with the Lands Department for the dedication of the area as a Reserve for Public Recreation, and advised the Departmental officers of the surrounding areas that were suitable for reservation. | ||
+ | |||
+ | By further appeals and donations, as well as from the proceeds of various entertainments they arranged, the bushwalkers raised the £80 and on 1st December, 1933, repaid Mr. Cleary' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Our Magazine.===== | ||
- | highlights is the Club's record in the sphere of conservation, | ||
- | The Club, of course, does not claim all tho credit for the victory, but it is justly proud of the part it played with kindred clubs and organisAiaris in prosorvling for posterity a choice area of coastal bishland that will- alrhys .!,ho, joy of recreational walkers and campers. | ||
- | The name Garawarra is a combination of Gara (Garb) and Illewa.rra, and was suitably chosen when bushwalkors started the -agitation, for tho reomption of the Gara Estate and surrounding bushland, totalling in all 5,000 acres. The full.. .objective was not achieved and at presen.t the reserve consists of 1,465 acres adjoining the ' | ||
- | . , | ||
- | . : | ||
- | The first record we have of. allushwalkor " | ||
- | The name " | ||
- | As time wont 'on the need for protecting the place became of first rate urgency. Timber gotters had bocoro-, | ||
- | 26 | ||
- | the wild flower' | ||
- | Myles ' | ||
- | In 1927 the Sydney Bush Walkers camp into existonco and some Mountain Trails Club members wero actively associated with the now club, which was open to both sexes. Right at its birth the met its first conservation task and as the Club's membership grow so did the intensity for " | ||
- | Airing the depression years of the early 1930's bushwalking became more and more popular, and those genuinely attracted to bushwalking as distinct from the passing vogue of " | ||
- | the | ||
- | An important step in the campaign was the formation in 1932 of/New South Wales Federation of Bush Walking Clubs, -thus bringing together for combined action the whole bushwalking fraternity. The- immediate and urgent objective was Garawarre. | ||
- | Publicity in tho press, printed handbills, deputations to Ministers of the | ||
- | Crown, and correspondence with all organisations likely to be sympatheticsroused | ||
- | more and more onthusiasm, | ||
- | was drawn up and nearly 5,000 signaturos obtained. 1 | ||
- | The work of obtaining these signatures was immense, as large numbers of non- 1 | ||
- | club walkers had to be contacted at Railway Stations and in the bush at week ends, and other people genuinely interested' | ||
- | In due course the petition was presented to the -Minister for Lands, the Hon. E.A. Buttenshaw, and the outcome was the dedication of 1,300 acres for public recreation on August 17, 1934. The new reserve was named Garawarra Park and there was a definite promise from the Minister that as long as he was Minister for Lands Garawarra would remain roadies, although it was not officially recognised as a primitive area. | ||
- | On January 25th, 1935 seven trustees were appointeA to control Garawarra Park. They were Messrs. H.W. Whiddon and W.F. Leighton Bailey, of the National Park Trust, E.J. Ryan and A.H. Fackender of the Bulli Shiro Council, J.V. Turner and W.J.Roots of the N.S.W. Federation of Bush Walking Clubs, and G.P. Allman, Under Secretary for Lands. | ||
- | :roe Turner and Wal Roots wore two 6.13.W, members who had done yeomen service 1 in the fight for Garawarra, and it was fitting that they should be aelocted to act as 13ushwalkors1 representatives on the Trust. | ||
- | Theo Atkinson (Ru.cksack Club) replaced Wal Roots when he resigned, and I replaced Joe Turner when he resigned. | ||
- | ; | ||
- | The Bushwalkers1 Trustees have had no easy task over the years astriit.npst be said that as a minority they had to withstand strong pressure to allow permissive occupancies to romain on the Reserve, and also to fight strenuously against a determined move to have Garawarra added to National Parks. | ||
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- | In the depression years and prior to the Park being dedicated many shacks and permanent camps wore erected in the vicinity of Burning, | ||
- | A few well-conducted pormanont campers who had boon there for some years before the Park was dodicatod wore allowed to remain under permissive occupancy, and the rovenuo from their rentals helps to finance the Park administration, | ||
- | Small additions to the original grantlirms brought the total acreage to 1,465. | ||
- | Garawarra has to some extont recovered from the blitz of tho vandals of years ago, and for the last ten years a ranger has been paid to patrol the Park at week-ends. | ||
- | 'What Garawarra could have been but for the efforts of Bushwalkers is vividly illustrated by the village of Shacks and humpias that appal the eye on the . adjoining Gara Estate. | ||
- | HOW BLUE GUMFOREBT *AS SAVED FROM THE AXE. | ||
- | In 1931 Mr. C. Hungerford, farmer, of Bilpin, obtained a Conditional Purchase Lease in the valley of the Grose River which included what is now Reserve 63,521. On the Eight-Hour Week-end he started to rinjoark the troos on that flat, but, fortunately, | ||
- | At that time thoro was no N.S.W. Federation of Bush Walking Clubs (it was | ||
- | formed in July, 1932) so, from the members ortho Mountain Trails Club the | ||
- | Sydney Bush Walkers and the Wild Liko Presorvation Society of Australia was formed the BLUE 0I-JM FOREST COMMITTEE, viz:- | ||
- | M.T.C. : Messrs. Myles J. EUnphy and Alan P. Rigby; | ||
- | S.B.W.: | ||
- | On 12th FobrUary, 1932, Miss Dbrothy Lawry was elected to fill the vacancy on the Committee caused by Mr. Chardon' | ||
- | The arrangement with Mr. Hungerford was confirmed at a meeting the Committee had with him in The Blue Gum Forest on 15th Novombor, 1931, at which Mr. J.C. Lockley (" | ||
- | Tho Wild Lifo Preservation Society donated 25 bushwalkors and tree lovers gave 25, and Mr. W.J. Glossy lent tho: | ||
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- | arranged with the Lands rbpartmeint for the dedication of the aroa as a RoserVo for Public Rocroation, and advised the rbpartmontal officors of the sarrouhding areas that wore saitablo for reservation. | ||
- | By further appeals and donations, as wall as frOm the proceeds of various entertainments they arrancr,od, the bushwalkors raised the 80 and on 1st rbcombor, 1933, ropaid Mr. Cloary' | ||
- | OUR MAGAZINE. | ||
By Dorothy Lawry. | By Dorothy Lawry. | ||
- | The editor asked ne to write an article on the birth of the magazine, and as I was at tho meeting of the S.B.W. at which the suggestion was first mado that we should have a Club Journal and than became or of its first Publishing Committee, I suppose I know as much about its birth as anyone now active in the Club. However, 1931 is quite a while ago so refreshed my momory by browsing through some of the early issues. In No. 13, of Juno 19,2 I found the following Editorial by Brenda White, Which is to the point, so I quote it in full. | ||
- | ' " | ||
- | "Whon the Publishing Committee brought out the first issue of tho " | ||
- | the suggestion, so it was ours for a private venture. Half a dozen enthusiasts banded togethor, threw in the nucleus of a working fund, and 'Tbo Aushwalker' | ||
- | "We. Are greatly indobted, as era so many others, to Myles Dunphy for lots of the spade work - in fact, on looking through No. 1 wo find that it was entirely written by Marj, Rene Browne, Taro and the over obliging and capable Myles, who also nada arrangements for the printing. | ||
- | "Marj. said in her editorial t 'This first publication is brousbt forward with the hope of future continuous help and patronage of our members; and in this | ||
- | respect the Publishing Committee invites thorn to consider their various exporionees in the light of common interest to follow members, and to hand in clearly written | ||
- | accounts, in serious or humourous vein, together with personal items or jokes concerning members or walking. Constant featuros of future issues will be reports | ||
- | of social events and equipment section. o did not know what kind of a reception | ||
- | our little one would get, but hoped for the best - and, as sometimes happens to | ||
- | optimists, we were not disappointed. So we gaily wunt our way, worrying. longsufforing people for contributions, | ||
- | At length we arrived at our little one's first birthdays | + | The editor asked me to write an article on the birth of the magazine, and as I was at the meeting of the S.B.W. at which the suggestion was first made that we should have a Club Journal and then became one of its first Publishing Committee, I suppose I know as much about its birth as anyone now active in the Club. However, 1931 is quite a while ago so I refreshed my memory by browsing through some of the early issues. In No. 13, of Juno 1933, I found the following Editorial by Brenda White, which is to the point, so I quote it in full. |
- | e9 | + | |
- | we could not prevent other people from using it, so we decided on the rechristening of our infant and legal adoption by the Club, and now on its second birthday we wish most sincerely to thank all those who have given their support, both literary and 'financial.* | + | ===" |
- | And now, in October, 1948, we have come to the Club's 21st birthday celebrations and this special issue of *Tho Sydney Bushwalker", | + | |
- | The "half a dozen enthusiasts" | + | "When the Publishing Committee brought out the first issue of the " |
- | Misses Marjorie Hill (Editor), Brenda White, | + | |
- | TO finance the journal we each throw in 10/ which was refunded to us by the Club when it adopted "The Sydney Bushwalker" | + | "We are greatly indebted, as are so many others, to Myles Dunphy for lots of the spade work - in fact, on looking through No. 1 we find that it was entirely written by Marj, Rene Browne, Taro and the ever obliging and capable Myles, who also made arrangements for the printing. |
- | No. 23, of F.ebruary 3315, was the last number to bear the names of the original Publishing Committee. From No. 24, April 1935, we miss Marjorie Hill and Rena Brownels | + | |
- | The First itianua/ | + | "Marj. said in her editorial: 'This first publication is brought forward with the hope of future continuous help and patronage of our members; and in this respect the Publishing Committee invites them to consider their various experiences in the light of common interest to fellow members, and to hand in clearly written accounts, in serious or humourous vein, together with personal items or jokes concerning members or walking. Constant features of future issues will be reports of social events and equipment section.' |
- | Our Club magazine used to appear every second month, | + | |
- | Under-the editorship of Marie Byles who hhd followed Brenda White, some changes were made in January, | + | "At length we arrived at our little one's first birthday, |
- | The April, | + | |
- | bit older than.Paddyle | + | And now, in October, 1948, we have come to the Club's 21st birthday celebrations and this special issue of " |
- | 30 | + | |
- | Talking of No. 2$ in the Social | + | The "half a dozen enthusiasts" |
- | "Mr. and Mrs. Roots are to bo congratulatod | + | |
- | By 1937 Club mombors | + | Misses Marjorie Hill (Editor), Brenda White, |
- | In April, 1938, Marie Bylos rosignod | + | |
- | our Club magazino | + | To finance the journal we each threw in 10/ which was refunded to us by the Club when it adopted "The Sydney Bushwalker" |
- | .REFLECTIONS BY PADDY. | + | |
- | It was a thing of shining beauty that first tent. My cobbor | + | No. 23, of February 1935, was the last number to bear the names of the original Publishing Committee. From No. 24, April 1935, we miss Marjorie Hill and Rena Browne' |
- | In 1926 I arrived in Sydney and being Boy Scout, I boon:found rf way to the Scout Headquarters | + | |
- | Tho scene changes, we pass-lidhtlY | + | The First Annual |
- | In October 1930 rzr wifo and I sot out for's:canoe trip 3own to Shoelhavon.. On the way. out we had rogibtorod | + | |
- | I remember to this day the fooling | + | Our Club magazine used to appear every second month, |
- | me my.oarlier | + | |
- | to mako it. | + | Under the editorship of Marie Byles, who had followed Brenda White, some changes were made in January, |
- | . 31 | + | |
- | The spare bedroom became the first Paddymade Workroom., , A secondhand treadle machine the first piece of machinery. Soon I was & | + | The April, |
- | ' | + | |
- | In 1931, Oliver Wulf,then a lad of 14 joined me and he has been my right hand man ever since. .He is now doing the behind the scenes job of Factory Manager and is therefore seldom seen nowadays in the shop. | + | Talking of No. 2, in the Social |
- | From the beginning the Sydney Bush Walkers showed a helpful interest in my enterprise and I must here record gratitude for the many kindnesses shown to ma - by members of the Club. | + | |
- | In a way the growth of the " | + | "Mr. and Mrs. Roots are to be congratulated |
- | 6 were able to go walking. | + | |
- | As more and more people began to take to Bushwalking, | + | By 1937 Club members |
- | In 1932 the business was moved to larger, | + | |
- | The war years interrupted the flow of materials and put lots of spanners in the works. | + | In April, 1938, Marie Byles resigned |
- | We still feel the effects of war and it may ho years before the orderly flow of materials will be resumed, but bushwalking as a recreation is growing in strength from year to year. I feel very proud to servo the walking fraternity and to bo able in some small measure to assist in the promotion of its welfare. | + | |
- | THE FIRST WALK DOWN THE COLO. | + | ---- |
+ | |||
+ | =====Reflections By Paddy.===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | It was a thing of shining beauty that first tent. My cobber | ||
+ | |||
+ | In 1926 I arrived in Sydney and being a Boy Scout, I soon found my way to the Scout Headquarters | ||
+ | |||
+ | The scene changes, we pass lightly | ||
+ | |||
+ | In October 1930 my wife and I set out for a canoe trip down the Shoalhaven. On the way out we had registered | ||
+ | |||
+ | I remember to this day the feeling | ||
+ | |||
+ | The spare bedroom became the first Paddymade Workroom. A secondhand treadle machine the first piece of machinery. Soon I was doing well enough to warrant moving into the City and I rented a dingy room in George Street. I had hardly moved in before the Government Savings Bank suspended payment which immobilised all my tiny capital. | ||
+ | |||
+ | In the meantime my wife secured a job and helped to supplement my meagre | ||
+ | |||
+ | In 1931, Oliver Wulf, then a lad of 15, joined me and he has been my right hand man ever since. He is now doing the behind the scenes job of Factory Manager and is therefore seldom seen nowadays in the shop. | ||
+ | |||
+ | From the beginning the Sydney Bush Walkers showed a helpful interest in my enterprise and I must here record gratitude for the many kindnesses shown to me by members of the Club. | ||
+ | |||
+ | In a way the growth of the " | ||
+ | |||
+ | As more and more people began to take to Bushwalking, | ||
+ | |||
+ | In 1932 the business was moved to larger | ||
+ | |||
+ | The war years interrupted the flow of materials and put lots of spanners in the works. | ||
+ | |||
+ | We still feel the effects of war and it may be years before the orderly flow of materials will be resumed, but bushwalking as a recreation is growing in strength from year to year. I feel very proud to serve the walking fraternity and to be able in some small measure to assist in the promotion of its welfare. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====The First Walk Down The Colo.===== | ||
Maxwell Gentle. | Maxwell Gentle. | ||
- | The river flats of the Hawkesbury, near the Colo junction, | + | |
- | earnings. | + | The river flats of the Hawkesbury, near the Colo junction, |
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- | Littlo | + | Little |
- | - According to a writer in the Sydney Herald of 1878, "tho Blue Mountains railway may have boon a very fine thing to accomplish. The zig-zags, the hug climb, the wonderful | + | |
- | Since the published accounts of Mr. Townsendh romarkablo | + | According to a writer in the Sydney Herald of 1878, "the Blue Mountains railway may have been a very fine thing to accomplish. The zig-zags, the huge climb, the wonderful |
- | - railway, and all other railways | + | |
- | level on'tho watprshod lino and descend by a valley on the other aide. On the | + | Since the published accounts of Mr. Townsend' |
- | Blue Mbuntains ralway, the stato of things is quito different. The summit level instead of being at Rydal, the true watershed | + | |
- | Referring to the Cole Valley proposal, | + | Referring to the Colo Valley proposal, |
- | Seven years later, in 1885, a railway route was surveyed up the Colo valley, and a pack horse-track constructed along the river. | + | |
+ | Seven years later, in 1885, a railway route was surveyed up the Colo valley, and a pack horse-track constructed along the river. | ||
It was in 1931 that the late Gordon Smith and I started from Capertee Railway Station, on a walk to Kurrajong via the Colo valley. | It was in 1931 that the late Gordon Smith and I started from Capertee Railway Station, on a walk to Kurrajong via the Colo valley. | ||
- | Daybreak | + | |
- | appeared to the North, and it seemed to be tho highest mountain in the district. | + | Daybreak |
- | On reaching the Caperteo | + | |
- | Walking down the Capertoo | + | On reaching the Capertee |
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- | ' . Qn the follv/ing morninc | + | Walking down the Capertee |
- | Leaving Uraterer next day we found our way back to the eaportee | + | |
- | Following the Caportoo downstr.:cm, the bridle track hugged the southern bank, and saved us much timo the next day. | + | On the following morning |
- | Two miles before the Wolgnn | + | |
- | suggestod .giving up the venture, but Gordon | + | Leaving Uraterer next day we found our way back to the Capertee |
- | . Below this point the river assumes the name of Colo and flows swiftly between | + | |
- | -The cliffs on oithor sidb now presented a more broken appearance and we saw gigantic sandstone caves at great heights | + | Following the Capertee downstream, the bridle track hugged the southern bank, and saved us much time the next day. |
- | ?ho Wollomi crook was soon flowing in from the north botwoon | + | |
- | The Colo river is in the form of long smooth pools, alternating with rapids | + | Two miles before the Wolgan |
- | Tho monotony of rocic hopping was broken by a rough passago | + | |
- | was not in rrait. The pools toomod | + | I suggested |
- | At the close of the third day from Wollomi crook we reached | + | |
- | ,f | + | Below this point the river assumes the name of Colo and flows swiftly between |
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- | Below the Wollangambe junction the old survoyorsIpack | + | The cliffs on either side now presented a more broken appearance and we saw gigantic sandstone caves at great heights |
- | THE TIGERS. | + | |
+ | The Wollemi creek was soon flowing in from the north between | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Colo river is in the form of long smooth pools, alternating with rapids | ||
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+ | The monotony of rock hopping was broken by a rough passage | ||
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+ | At the close of the third day from Wollemi creek we reached | ||
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+ | Below the Wollangambe junction the old surveyors' | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
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+ | =====The Tigers.===== | ||
Dot English. | Dot English. | ||
- | The Tigoro | + | |
- | , The leader was Gordon Smith, | + | The Tigers |
- | Oapertee, *no Grose in recor .mo, in fact there was hardly a part on tho Blue Mts. map that didnit sea us one week-and or another. | + | |
- | Smithy' | + | The leader was Gordon Smith, |
- | Smithy was a chanpion | + | |
- | mid-day Sunday. Smithy covered 114 miles, Jack did 100, and Dave Stoad finished 3rd with 80. Others of us who wishud | + | Smithy' |
- | Aftor this event somo of tho Tigers gave tonporary itllogianco 0Ahe .Road Racing Club, and bushwalks | + | |
+ | Smithy was a champion | ||
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+ | After this event some of the Tigers gave temporary allegiance to the Road Racing Club, and bushwalks | ||
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