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The Catholic Bushwalkers have been told they may buy our ex-screen if they so desire. | The Catholic Bushwalkers have been told they may buy our ex-screen if they so desire. | ||
- | Re Publicity - The meeting discussed wording of an advertisement to place in Paddy' | + | Re Publicity - The meeting discussed wording of an advertisement to place in Paddy' |
Sheila read out the monthly incomings and outgoings of our pennies and halfpennies. The Club listened to this tepid tale of our near insolvency without batting an eyelid. | Sheila read out the monthly incomings and outgoings of our pennies and halfpennies. The Club listened to this tepid tale of our near insolvency without batting an eyelid. | ||
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Federation Report read and received. Alan Strom asked that those who hold any opinion on the form that future Federation Re-unions should take, please fill in the questionnaire provided and return it to the Club Secretary. | Federation Report read and received. Alan Strom asked that those who hold any opinion on the form that future Federation Re-unions should take, please fill in the questionnaire provided and return it to the Club Secretary. | ||
- | Tom Moppett gave us the latest tidings on Conservation matters, and from our meagre exchequer we unanimously and without bickering voted £l donation to the Hawkesbury Scenic Reserve Fund. | + | Tom Moppett gave us the latest tidings on Conservation matters, and from our meagre exchequer we unanimously and without bickering voted £1 donation to the Hawkesbury Scenic Reserve Fund. |
John Bookluck, waving a sheet of paper under our collective noses, exhorted us to notify him of walks we intend to lead, and quickly, as there is not much more space left on the Walks Programme. | John Bookluck, waving a sheet of paper under our collective noses, exhorted us to notify him of walks we intend to lead, and quickly, as there is not much more space left on the Walks Programme. | ||
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=== Morton Primitive Reserve: === | === Morton Primitive Reserve: === | ||
- | The Fauna Protection Panel has agreed to Eask the Department of Lands to agree to the dedication of the Morton Primitive Reserve as a Faunal Reserve. | + | The Fauna Protection Panel has agreed to ask the Department of Lands to agree to the dedication of the Morton Primitive Reserve as a Faunal Reserve. |
=== Wyangla Dam (Lachlan River): === | === Wyangla Dam (Lachlan River): === | ||
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Trust not finalised, but if Federation is to have its nominations accepted, then they must be amongst those recommended by the local M.L.A., Mr. J. Renshaw. Impressions are generally favourably inclined towards the Park... some enthusiastical1y. If fencing proposed is carried out the parklands should be adequately defined for management. The proposed tourist road from Coonabarabran through Mopera Gap and down the Wombelong Valley to the Tooraweenah - Baradine Road is, according to locals, under way. It would appear that any trustee representing walkers interests is likely to have considerable difficulty in retaining the " | Trust not finalised, but if Federation is to have its nominations accepted, then they must be amongst those recommended by the local M.L.A., Mr. J. Renshaw. Impressions are generally favourably inclined towards the Park... some enthusiastical1y. If fencing proposed is carried out the parklands should be adequately defined for management. The proposed tourist road from Coonabarabran through Mopera Gap and down the Wombelong Valley to the Tooraweenah - Baradine Road is, according to locals, under way. It would appear that any trustee representing walkers interests is likely to have considerable difficulty in retaining the " | ||
- | === .303 Rfiles: === | + | === .303 Rifles: === |
It has been announced that the Government will introduce legislation to permit the sale and use of .303 rifles. Federation will write to the Premier acknowledging the importance of these rifles for reducing numbers when Kangaroos reach pest proportions in the Western Division, but protesting against their free use elsewhere. A liberal permit system could be arranged for the Western Division. | It has been announced that the Government will introduce legislation to permit the sale and use of .303 rifles. Federation will write to the Premier acknowledging the importance of these rifles for reducing numbers when Kangaroos reach pest proportions in the Western Division, but protesting against their free use elsewhere. A liberal permit system could be arranged for the Western Division. | ||
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Brighten your food list and save weight with these tasty, highly concentrated vegetarian foods. | Brighten your food list and save weight with these tasty, highly concentrated vegetarian foods. | ||
- | Waltham raisins, dates, sultanas and other dried fruits - an appetising addition to porridge: for lunch: to chew on teh walk or for dessert. | + | Waltham raisins, dates, sultanas and other dried fruits - an appetising addition to porridge: for lunch: to chew on the walk or for dessert. |
Nuts - almonds, peanuts, cashews - more nutrition per ounce than any other food. | Nuts - almonds, peanuts, cashews - more nutrition per ounce than any other food. | ||
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+ | ===== Cedar Creek Capers, June 4th - 5th - 6th. ===== | ||
- | CEDAR CREEK CAPMS JUNE 4TH-5TH-6TH. CiDigby". | + | - "Digby". |
- | Out of the cosy, friendly atmosphere of the train and into tile bleak, misty blackness of a wet, winter, Mountains night tramped the five Prospective Norm Potter who had been playing rather successfully at wolf on the journey; his keeper | + | |
- | The Kedumba Creek quagmire inspired nobody, and even our Casanova became ci,lite subdued as boots sank down heavily into the squelchy mess that purports to be the new road down into the valley. Did I say boots? Well, everyone enjoyed them except the Leader, who now keeps an open mind on the contention hsneakers for everythingl?' | + | Out of the cosy, friendly atmosphere |
- | The morn dawned grey and forbidding and passed away uneventfully on the march to Harry' | + | |
- | 16. | + | |
- | The serenity, liowe=, was shortlied, and during the night the elements and the valley conspf_red to take our tents by force. All through the nig ht the gale rnced, but *somehow we won through. A huge dead tree near the creel:, uprooted by a violent gast, cane crashing down only a few feet from the campfire where Norman was consuming the mountain of food he calls breakfast. The imperturbable man of steel, Is cnoved, merely reached out for the newly arrived firewood, calmly romaing | + | |
- | The morning's walk brought more of the grassy bank lolly sort of stuff, and then Cedar Creek began to throw out her challenge as we entered the Canyon proper. krambling up and around waterfalls, edging our way around the rocky walls of deep Pools, guessing a route among the tangled mass of boulders or rock-hopping up the bed itself added the spice. It was along this section that amost memorable ePisode of both side-splitting humour aad touching pathos was enacted. Scene: A cold, deep pool negotiable only by a slender, shaky log almost at water level. Only Tine was yet to cross. With commendable courage our femme advanced on the hazard while we waited | + | |
- | In the next breath Tarzan Potter was dumped into the torrent | + | |
- | With lunch and the mischievous creek behind us, we made a determined assault' | + | |
- | As the gale on the top was apparently blowing straight off the Pole, we rugged up in everything we could find and then tried to kid | + | |
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- | AN OLD MAN DREAMS. | + | The Kedumba Creek quagmire inspired nobody, and even our Casanova became quite subdued as boots sank down heavily into the squelchy mess that purports to be the new road down into the valley. Did I say boots? Well, everyone enjoyed them except the Leader, who now keeps an open mind on the contention " |
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+ | The serenity, however, was shortlived, and during the night the elements and the valley conspired to take our tents by force. All through the night the gale raged, but somehow we won through. A huge dead tree near the creek, uprooted by a violent gust, came crashing down only a few feet from the campfire where Norman was consuming the mountain of food he calls breakfast. The imperturbable man of steel, unmoved, merely reached out for the newly arrived firewood, calmly remarking on the generosity of Nature who provides all things just when they are needed. | ||
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+ | The morning' | ||
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+ | In the next breath Tarzan Potter was dumped into the torrent by an unstable swinging vine and conjectured that maybe Nature was not so all-providing after all. The mirth had barely subsided when wet sneakers on wet rocks upset the Leader' | ||
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+ | With lunch and the mischievous creek behind us, we made a determined assault on the Ruined Castle and shivered through a cigarette-stop on the lee side of the summit rocks while the icy tornado raged without. The call of civilisation with its warmth was now strongly upon us, and so all haste was made for the Scenic Railway. Despite the fact that the main party temporarily lost the " | ||
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+ | As the gale on the top was apparently blowing straight off the Pole, we rugged up in everything we could find and then tried to kid ourselves we were warm; that is, we three " | ||
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+ | ===== An Old Man Dreams [song]. ===== | ||
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+ | The old sailor dreams of a little island\\ | ||
+ | floating like an apple on the wide green sea.\\ | ||
+ | An apple you could hold in your hand.\\ | ||
+ | Turn this way and then that,\\ | ||
+ | Place here a tree, and there a nigger in a palm-leaf hat.\\ | ||
+ | He sailed all his life\\ | ||
+ | Till his blood ran salt as the sea,\\ | ||
+ | His ship was his sweetheart and his wife,\\ | ||
+ | and he passed many an island\\ | ||
+ | with no more than a glance\\ | ||
+ | at the bright white sand of the curved sea-shore.\\ | ||
+ | But now that the sailor is old\\ | ||
+ | He would like a little island\\ | ||
+ | like an apple like an apple like an apple,\\ | ||
+ | Just to look at and to hold. | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Fifty-Two Years A Bushwalker. ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | (This is written by Mr. Seabrook. of North West Arm, Sutherland, rich in years but young in heart, and a great admirer of Bushwalkers.) | ||
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+ | Yes, I have been bushwalking for over half a century. My trips ranged from Cape York Peninsula in North Queensland to Victoria in the South. I am about to retire to my Bushwalkers' | ||
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+ | ===== The Barron Falls. ===== | ||
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- | ourselVes we were warm; that is, we three " | ||
- | at the Florida, a cat-nap in the train, parting au-revoirs, a glorious hot bath, and finally wonderful, wonderful sleep in a warm soft bed. I would never appreciate this cosy niche of clean sheets and warm blankets half so much if it weren' | ||
- | 18. | ||
- | FIFTY-TWO 'TEARS A BUSEWALKER. | ||
- | , (This is written by Mr. Seabrook. 'of North West Arm, Sutherland, | ||
- | rich,in years but young in heart, and a great admirer of Bushwalkers.) | ||
- | Yes, I have been bushmalking for over half a century. My trips ranged from Cape York Peninsula in North Queensland to Victoria in the South. I am about to retire to my Bushwalkers' | ||
- | it, There was not even a bush track; I had to crawl through prickly | ||
- | bushes to get to it; now there is a bus route through it. I have sold some and have twelve, acres left. My' front boundary is the water | ||
- | front; my back boundary is National Park, so I cannot be built out at | ||
- | either end. I have a natural rock Pool of tidal water 495 feet long and about a chain wide, shark proof. All round Port Hacking merciless land-owners have cut down all native trees and shrubs and have nothing left but sand and hungry grey rock. I did not cut down my trees. On one area of 8 acres I did not even cut the undergrowth for 15 years, nor allow any bushfires across it. As a result it has leaf mould a | ||
- | foot deep. For Bushwalking one can walk straight into National Park, | ||
- | or row up the river into the interior of the Park, or row to any Dart | ||
- | of its long water-front Which comprises the whole northern shores of Port Hacking. | ||
- | THE BARRON FALLS. | ||
- H. Seabrook. | - H. Seabrook. | ||
- | I enjoyed Keith Renwick' | + | |
- | of his journey to the Barron Falls, but was sorry to know_ that the hydro-electric station has reduced the flow. When I first went through that country, 46 years ago, hundreds of tons of water tumbled over the falls. | + | I enjoyed Keith Renwick' |
- | After leaving the flat coastal area from Cairns, the railway | + | |
- | ascends one of the steepest ranges in Queensland. The railway is more than a zig-zag; it is a convolution. I forget how many tunnels we went through. I have a Photo taken just outside tunnel No.15. The scenery is unforgettable. The jungle trees are not the monotonous grey-green eucalypts of the temperate region but a tropical flare of every bright shade from lettuce-green to funeral-green, | + | After leaving the flat coastal area from Cairns, the railway ascends one of the steepest ranges in Queensland. The railway is more than a zig-zag; it is a convolution. I forget how many tunnels we went through. I have a photo taken just outside tunnel No.15. The scenery is unforgettable. The jungle trees are not the monotonous grey-green eucalypts of the temperate region but a tropical flare of every bright shade from lettuce-green to funeral-green, |
- | At Kuranda at the top of the Falls I went to one of the two hotels. I had hardly secured a room before I saw a magnificent butterfly sail past the window. I went out with my net and caught it It has green and black wings | + | |
- | like a bird' | + | At Kuranda at the top of the Falls I went to one of the two hotels. I had hardly secured a room before I saw a magnificent butterfly sail past the window. I went out with my net and caught it. It has green and black wings like a bird' |
- | The lunch gong then sounded, | + | |
- | 19. | + | The lunch gong then sounded, so I left the butterfly on the washstand. |
- | ahen I returned after lunch the ants had eaten its body leaving the wings and legs loose. Ants are very quick off the mark in the tropics, It is not enough to | + | |
- | suspend your meat | + | In the temperate parts of Queensland you can sleep on a ground-sheet in your tent, but in the tropics you need a bunk. Besides the ants you see by day, there are species that swarm about only at night. |
- | safe by a wire, You 1 i | + | |
- | have to solder your 1 | + | At Kuranda I visited an entomologist named Dodd, who had a fine collection of local butterflies and moths. |
- | wire through the bottom | + | |
- | of a can, and keep the | + | |
- | can full of water. | + | |
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- | In the temperate parts | + | |
- | of Queensland you can sleep i | + | |
- | on a ground-sheet in your tent, | + | |
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- | .3 but in the tropics you need a | + | |
- | bunk. Besides the ants you see by day, there are species that swarm | + | |
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- | 0 about only at night. | + | |
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- | At Kuranda I visited an entomologist named Dodd, who had a fine collection of local butterflies and moths. | + | |
At Stony Creek Falls the railway line, strange to say, circles round outside the falls. The water drops into a chasm between your carriage and the cliff. In flood times you have to keep the carriage windows closed because the falls then shoot out further, towards the railway line. | At Stony Creek Falls the railway line, strange to say, circles round outside the falls. The water drops into a chasm between your carriage and the cliff. In flood times you have to keep the carriage windows closed because the falls then shoot out further, towards the railway line. | ||
- | At Stony Creek station there were Peach trees growing on the narrow spots of land available. Passengers had thrown out the seeds. There was also a tree with beans about two feet long. A local resident who was travelling with me said, "Oh, I must get a few cascara beans" | + | |
- | gathered armfuls and began to e-07 partition after partition. | + | At Stony Creek station there were peach trees growing on the narrow spots of land available. Passengers had thrown out the seeds. There was also a tree with beans about two feet long. A local resident who was travelling with me said, "Oh, I must get a few cascara beans" |
- | muttered to him For Heaven' | + | |
- | THE VERY LATEST MODELS: | + | ---- |
- | --- soaTraul, e-Teoff and Barbara Greethead. | + | |
+ | === The very last models: === | ||
+ | |||
+ | A son, Paul, to Geoff and Barbara Greethead. | ||
Also a son to Christa and Bob Younger. | Also a son to Christa and Bob Younger. | ||
- | Congratulations to the happy. parents.. | + | |
- | Little Julie Frost celebratedher | + | Congratulations to the happy parents. |
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- | For ever 23 years Bushwalkers have been familiar with the name Paddy Pallin. Some years ago a little reorganisation was done to separate the manufacturing and import- | + | Little Julie Frost celebrated her first Birthday with a party, and the boys brought along lots of bottles of beer - for Julie. |
- | ing sides of the business from the retail side and the new section was named t'Paddy Made Manufacturing Company" | + | |
- | Farther growth has now macle another change desirable and we have" | + | ---- |
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+ | ===== Paddy Made. ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | === On limited companies. === | ||
+ | |||
+ | For ever 23 years Bushwalkers have been familiar with the name Paddy Pallin. Some years ago a little reorganisation was done to separate the manufacturing and importing | ||
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+ | Farther growth has now made another change desirable and we have "Paddy Pallin Pty. Limited" | ||
The change is one of organisation only. Paddy is still in sole control of both businesses and walkers can look forward to the same personal attention to their needs as they have received over the years. | The change is one of organisation only. Paddy is still in sole control of both businesses and walkers can look forward to the same personal attention to their needs as they have received over the years. | ||
- | P PAW | ||
- | Lightweight Camp Gear | ||
- | 201CASTLEREAGH St SYDNEY | ||
- | M2678 | ||
+ | Paddy Pallin. Lightweight Camp Gear. | ||
+ | |||
+ | 201 Castlereagh St., Sydney. M2678. | ||
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