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-FEDERATION REPORT NOVEMBER
+===== Federation Report, November. =====
 - Allen A. Strom,
-The Sydney Technical College Bushwalkers will hold their Tenth Annual Barbecue at Woods Creek on December 15/16th. Special transport is being arranged from Richmond railway station for the 10.14 a.m. train ex Central on 15th. But please notify Peter Cartwright, 108 Grafton St., Bondi Junction, immediately if you wish to go.
+The Sydney Technical College Bushwalkers will hold their __Tenth Annual Barbecue__ at Woods Creek on December 15/16th. Special transport is being arranged from Richmond railway station for the 10.14 a.m. train ex Central on 15th. But please notify Peter Cartwright, 108 Grafton St., Bondi Junction, immediately if you wish to go.
-anEonia Gorapi A recent letter from the Dept. of Mines informs us that the leases for mining limestone near the Gorge have been curtailed. Later, in an interview with the Minister for Lands and Mines, a written undertaking was given that when the leases expire in 1960 and 61 "very favourable consideration" will be given tb the plan for a National Monument. In the meantime we will continue to press for the reservation to be made over those parts of the Gorge not controlled by the Dept. of Mines,
+__Bungonia Gorge__: A recent letter from the Dept. of Mines informs us that the leases for mining limestone near the Gorge have been curtailed. Later, in an interview with the Minister for Lands and Mines, a written undertaking was given that when the leases expire in 1960 and 61 "very favourable consideration" will be given to the plan for a National Monument. In the meantime we will continue to press for the reservation to be made over those parts of the Gorge not controlled by the Dept. of Mines.
-Colong-Church Creek: Three leases to mine limestone will be given
-over parts of the reserve for the preservation of caves in the Colong-Church Creek area, The Trust of the reserve has agreed to the mining operations under certain conditions. The Dept. of Lands has
-been asked to supply us with the details of these conditions. A
-protest on mining in the reserve has been sent to the Superintendent of Caves. It appears that it is proposed to take the limestone to
-Maldon by aerial ropeway and that the tie up of capital and organisa.
-tions is very considerable.
-Myall Lakes: The Fauna Protection Panel has recommended that 15/000 acres lying between Seal Rocks and Mungo Brush, the Myall Lakes and the sea, be declared a Faunal Reserve.
+__Colong-Church Creek__: Three leases to mine limestone will be given over parts of the reserve for the preservation of caves in the Colong-Church Creek area. The Trust of the reserve has agreed to the mining operations under certain conditions. The Dept. of Lands has been asked to supply us with the details of these conditions. A protest on mining in the reserve has been sent to the Superintendent of Caves. It appears that it is proposed to take the limestone to Maldon by aerial ropeway and that the tie up of capital and organisations is very considerable.
-National Parks Act: Following upon representations made from 4
-Conference of Conservation Bodies in 1955 relative to a National Parks Act, the Minister for Lands has had information and data collected
+__Myall Lakes__: The Fauna Protection Panel has recommended that 15,000 acres lying between Seal Rocks and Mungo Brush, the Myall Lakes and the sea, be declared a Faunal Reserve.
-from.numerous sources. He has proposed that a group from the Conference should discuss the proposed Act with him early in 1957.
-The Information Officer (Paul Driver) is still not receiving the
+__National Parks Act__: Following upon representations made from a Conference of Conservation Bodies in 1955 relative to a National Parks Act, the Minister for Lands has had information and data collected from numerous sources. He has proposed that a group from the Conference should discuss the proposed Act with him early in 1957.
-support necessary to make his work successful. Walks Leaders are especially asked to supply information requested and to make it suitable for beginners.
-Arrangements are being made for a Walk on
+__The Information Officer (Paul Driver)__ is still not receiving the support necessary to make his work successful. Walks Leaders are especially asked to supply information requested and to make it suitable for beginners.
-Burning Palms, It will be for boys and prospective leaders should contact Paddy Pallin, A
-The position of Publicity Officer has been filled by a duo - Messrs. Gordon Robinson and D. Longton of the Bush Club.
+Arrangements are being made for a __Junior Walk on Burning Palms__. It will be for boys and prospective leaders should contact Paddy Pallin.
-Does any member wish to volunteer for a ILT11_212112E_calni.L.L22y
-WHERE ARE OUR WANDERING BOYS? 15. LETTER FROM ROSSO IN ENGLAND.
+The position of __Publicity Officer__ has been filled by a duo - Messrs. Gordon Robinson and D. Longton of the Bush Club.
-Mr, Ross Laird,
-Flat 6, 57 Netherall Gardens,
+Does any member wish to volunteer for a __Trail Blazing Committee__?
-HAMPSTEAD. N.W.3.
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+===== Where Are Our Wandering Boys? =====
+=== Letter from Rosso in England. ===
+Mr. Ross Laird,\\
+Flat 6, 57 Netherall Gardens,\\
+Hampstead. N.W.3.
 Hullo Everyone,
-I must start this letter with mad apologies for not having written to you people in all the time I've been away. There's not any real watertight excuse for MB to use so I shan't make one - just your bad luck in having such a person for a friend.
-So far I've had a fabulous time. Met up with a really good crowd on the ship and finished up by practically wrecking the-Oronsay and driving everybody crazy with our noise,
-Spent the first nine days in looking round London, Rather disappointed at first, but after two or three days learnt to disregard the filth of the buildings and the millions of pigeons and consequent ly the muck they leave behind, and now think it is a really fabulous place.
-On the tenth day we left - 4 girls and three boys - on a cycling trip. Took the train to Oxford and from there went to Harwell when I met Ken 'Meadows at the Youth Hostel quite accidentally and from thereto Stew-on-the-WOld in the Cotswold Hills, On to Bourton-on-the-Water, Still in the Cotswolds, Dunnisbourne, Abbotts, Inglesham, Marlborough, and so tb Bath. Spent the full week-end in Bath, which is really terrific, and then off to Cheddar Gorge, Spent a full day at Cheddar and visited the caves there - really weak after Our ones. From there went an to Street hostel which is two miles past Glastonbury, the site where religion was first preached on English soil. From Street, which is an old Quaker rest house, we went an to Minehead over on the Somerset coast. Spent another day here as one of the girls had gone down with 'flu. At this stage the weather, which till now had been terrific, gave up, and as it wouldn't have been any fun pushing bikes in the Cornish coast area we gave up and came back to London a week earlier than expected. after doing 320 miles and using a hell of a lot of Kodachrome,
-Spent the next week in seeing more of London, as well as a trip to Windsor Castle - a really fascinating place. Then just as I was tbinkipg of looking for a job I fell backwards out of the attic here as I was putting away a couple of suitcases, and finished up with Concussion-andtafracturedrightwrist. which waspventuallyput.. in plaster ,yesterdwafterafew:weeks..of X-Rays an&_01;epe:10,anaagq$ and there it stays.for-at..deast'five weeks..according:to thehOspital. '.Lucky oIo' Lairdthey. call ;1B4,
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-_ . Dear_ anyone who reads: this,
-No, I haven't forgotten that collection of individuals mho belong - to the S.B.W. though, I am rather Slow in- writing.
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- You Oa be wondering what J have hden doing inCe Wells to tell the truth, not much. -. I've ) been a'5-iy,e'S, a.. Couple _times  ' W the Otago' 'T-raiMpiiig Club,' over Mt. !:. odd )
-:Labor _Day ;wee k -+:en.d., to''you t:op;e Temple
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-Un.for-Punately the weather played havociiith night bff
-the bus IAD tried to sleep out but about 0130 er,ep' tent.
-Nice wet bags, And: 1-Laked,-; pr-jria-. -.6,F.;, oozed
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-.,an..; hour  to the, ,Cirque----at thii head of the ;north- bra4b,ii 'where we a--..ratherh,firm:2'bivoUad-rcick,'Whi0h we ''dug Out, terraced,
-general:II, -made -comfOrtable". It Was 'rather  ekceIlent about - 20 ft.
-long and ':.about - ft. wide -with head rooiri 6- arting at -about '5 11:'t
-and.: sloping down to a -',mere'2 ft. 6"4: By raising one's  head on the pillow as. one lay in the sack the whole -.Valley was spread- out in a grand panorama in front, starting with Cliffs', cb'uldirS, etc.. leading up into snow and mist on the right to a steep beech-covered slope rising from the typical boulder-hopping stream bed immediately in front,: to a view down the valley, to the hills on the other side of
-Lake Ohau on the left. Very pleasant when curled up inside a bag with ;the rain drifting down and the thought of the other miserable beds in the party cowering in their rain-sodden tents in a clump of beech trees in the middle of the valley.' They were always distinguish-
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+I must start this letter with mad apologies for not having written to you people in all the time I've been away. There's not any real watertight excuse for me to use so I shan't make one - just your bad luck in having such a person for a friend.
-able by the great volumes of saturated smoke that came pouring out as some poor member "threw another log an the fire." All this framed in a natural rock border created one of the most superb aspects I have ever had for a camp-site.
-On the Sunday we had a go at Rabbiter's Peak - 7,000' odd ,I think - anyone interested can look it up in Moirs Guide BOok.
+So far I've had a fabulous time. Met up with a really good crowd on the ship and finished up by practically wrecking the Oronsay and driving everybody crazy with our noise.
-We plodded our way up steep tussockl.slopes for about 300 ft before starting the long trudge through wet snow to the leading ridge. On reaching it the weather turned to the worst - or really another
-surge of wind brought the sled-ton more intensely and we decided to
+Spent the first nine days in looking round London. Rather disappointed at first, but after two or three days learnt to disregard the filth of the buildings and the millions of pigeons and consequently the muck they leave behind, and now think it is a really fabulous place.
-turn back. If some of you had been with us it would have been a' different story I feel sure. The ridge was "interesting" with cornices on the southerly side and a good mixture of rock and snow scrambling. I'll have to have another go at that one some day,
+On the tenth day we left - 4 girls and three boys - on a cycling trip. Took the train to Oxford and from there went to Harwell when I met Ken Meadows at the Youth Hostel quite accidentally and from there to Stow-on-the-Wold in the Cotswold Hills, On to Bourton-on-the-Water, still in the Cotswolds, Dunnisbourne, Abbotts, Inglesham, Marlborough, and so to Bath. Spent the full week-end in Bath, which is really terrific, and then off to Cheddar Gorge. Spent a full day at Cheddar and visited the caves there - really weak after our ones. From there went an to Street hostel which is two miles past Glastonbury, the site where religion was first preached on English soil. From Street, which is an old Quaker rest house, we went on to Minehead over on the Somerset coast. Spent another day here as one of the girls had gone down with 'flu. At this stage the weather, which till now had been terrific, gave up, and as it wouldn't have been any fun pushing bikes in the Cornish coast area we gave up and came back to London a week earlier than expected after doing 320 miles and using a hell of a lot of Kodachrome.
+Spent the next week in seeing more of London, as well as a trip to Windsor Castle - a really fascinating place. Then just as I was thinking of looking for a job I fell backwards out of the attic here as I was putting away a couple of suitcases, and finished up with concussion and a fractured right wrist which was eventually put in plaster yesterday after a few weeks of X-Rays and crepe bandages, and there it stays for at least five weeks according to the hospital. "Lucky ole' Laird" they call me!
+I'm now one of the idle - unfortunately there's no "rich" about it. Saw the Queen opening Parliament on Tuesday last - or rather the procession - and the Lord Mayor's procession on Friday. Both really wonderful, especially the former which was really fabulous. Have been to a couple of shows, the best of which was the Saddlers Wells Ballet Co. at Covent Gardens Opera House, and Alex Guiness in "Hotel Paradiso" at the Wintergarden Theatre in Drury Lane. After seeing him on films for so long, it was fabulous to see him on the stage.
+Haven't heard a single word from anybody in the S.B.W. since sailing. So please, study the address at the head of this letter and forget this out of sight out of mind business. I am writing an article for the Magazine but don't know how long it will take to complete it.
+All the best to everybody,
+Ross.
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+=== Letter from Garth in New Zealand. ===
+Mr. Garth Coulter,\\
+C/- Otago Catchment Board,\\
+Moray Place, Dunedin. N.Z.
+Dear anyone who reads this,
+No, I haven't forgotten that collection of individuals who belong to the S.B.W. though I __am__ rather slow in writing.
+You'll be wondering what I have hden doing with myself since arrival. Well, to tell the truth, not much. I've been away a couple of times with the Otago Traimping Club, over Mt. Druit (6,000' odd). Labor Day week-end (8-Hour to you people) went off to the Temple Valley - jons the Hopkins-Huxley just above Lake Ohau a bit. Unfortunately the weather played havoc with things. First night off the bus we tried to sleep out but about 4.30 a.m. had to erect tent. Nice wet bags, and of course the __new__ tent leaked - or rather oozed a fine drizzle down on us inside. I think a fly is required for Paddy's tents in our Nor' westers.
+Next day (Sat.) reared - well, hardly; the rest of the mob were so heavily laden they couldn't put up more than about one mile an hour - up to the cirque at the head of the north branch where we found a rather firm bivouac rock which we dug out, terraced, and generally made comfortable. It was rather excellent - about 20 ft. long and about 10 ft. wide with head room starting at about 5 ft. and sloping down to a mere 2 ft. 6". By raising one's head on the pillow as one lay in the sack the whole valley was spread out in a grand panorama in front, starting with cliffs, couloirs, etc., leading up into snow and mist on the right to a steep beech-covered slope rising from the typical boulder-hopping stream bed immediately in front, to a view down the valley, to the hills on the other side of Lake Ohau on the left. Very pleasant when curled up inside a bag with the rain drifting down and the thought of the other miserable bods in the party cowering in their rain-sodden tents in a clump of beech trees in the middle of the valley. They were always distinguishable by the great volumes of saturated smoke that came pouring out as some poor member "threw another log an the fire." All this framed in a natural rock border created one of the most superb aspects I have ever had for a camp-site.
+On the Sunday we had a go at Rabbiter's Peak - 7,000' odd I think - anyone interested can look it up in Moirs Guide Book. We plodded our way up steep tussocky slopes for about 300 ft. before starting the long trudge through wet snow to the leading ridge. On reaching it the weather turned to the worst - or really another surge of wind brought the sleet on more intensely and we decided to turn back. If some of you had been with us it would have been a different story I feel sure. The ridge was "interesting" with cornices on the southerly side and a good mixture of rock and snow scrambling. I'll have to have another go at that one some day.
 As usual, the weather cleared up for us the day we left, giving perfect views of the Maitland Range brilliantly white in the sun with its fresh fall of snow.
-Other than that there has been little else to talk about trips home, trips to Christchurch, whitebaiting (have had several feeds to capacity - great stuff), and fishing trips to Lantuku.
+Other than that there has been little else to talk about - trips home, trips to Christchurch, whitebaiting (have had several feeds to capacity - great stuff), and fishing trips to Lantuku.
 Flat hunting, of course. I think I have located a suitable one at last. I should be into it by the time your party hits N.Z. so I expect at least a couple of nights of your company as you pass through - sleeping bags on the floor for you people, of course.
-One request. Could you buy up some gipara (that doesn't look right) and bring it across, It's well night impossible to buy here, and a fantastic price.
+One request. Could you buy up some gipara (that doesn't look right) and bring it across. It's well night impossible to buy here, and a fantastic price.
 Here's a special mention for Stitt. How are you, you great ape? Haven't got that plaster off yet, eh? Those two lines should be enough cause for you to write me another letter.
 And how's Snow me boy? A fair effort on that Kanangra trip - wish I had been with you. There are lots of things I have missed since leaving Sydney, and though I hate to admit it, your ugly mug snoring its head off at nights is one.
-I'm just about out of news - only thing left is work and T won't bore you with details. Should be getting a land rover next week so will have something to show you round Dunedin with. If you could use a motor bike and side-box in any of your travels here, just yell and the.bestus little machine in New.Zealand (which includes Syd4ey and Per-qaas outer suburbs) is at your disposal. Let me tell you it's in perfect order as it always was and is, only the advance-retard cable is busted, the tail light works occasionally, had a punctUVe last night not to mention a clanking in the front somewhere - these are mere details that could be fixed in five minutes.
-I must go. Bye for now. Give my regards to all the mob. GARTH.
+I'm just about out of news - only thing left is work and I won't bore you with details. Should be getting a land rover next week so will have something to show you round Dunedin with. If you could use a motor bike and side-box in any of your travels here, just yell and the bestus little machine in New Zealand (which includes Sydney and Perth as outer suburbs) is at your disposal. Let me tell you it's in perfect order as it always was and is, only the advance-retard cable is busted, the tail light works occasionally, had a puncture last night not to mention a clanking in the front somewhere - these are mere details that could be fixed in five minutes.
-.
+I must go. Bye for now. Give my regards to all the mob.
+__Garth__.
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 CONSERVATION REPORT 7 11 1956.