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- | laPIDEULNgagEER | + | ====== The Sydney Bushwalker. ====== |
- | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, | + | |
- | a/. Ingersoll Hall, 256 Grown Street, Sydney. Box No. 4476, G.P.O. Sydney. 'Phone JW.1462. | + | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, |
- | 289 JANUJaY, 1959 | + | |
- | Editor: Goof Nagg, 131 St. Georges | + | ---- |
- | NorMow. Price 1/d. | + | |
- | =MIIIMNPROONIIM.M11, | + | === No. 289. January, 1959. Price 1/-d. === |
- | Reproductions | + | |
- | OON1' | + | |**Editor**|Geof Wagg, 131 St. Georges |
- | Paz,. 2 | + | |**Business Manager**|Brian Harvey.| |
- | Fire Prevention Schemes for Unprotected | + | |**Reproduction**|Jess Martin.| |
- | At Our December Meeting | + | |**Sales and Subs**|Jess Martin.| |
- | The Great Wade - nJaybeelt | + | |**Typed by**|Grace Wagg.| |
- | Hatswellis Taxi 0: Tourist Service (advt.) 5 | + | |
- | Leica Photo Service (advt.) - 7 | + | ===== In This Issue: ===== |
- | Salami - Oabernosei | + | |
- | My Love's the Mountains | + | | | |Page| |
- | The Sanitarium Health Food Shop (advt.) 11 | + | |Fire Prevention Schemes for Unprotected |
- | Weekend At Home - "Ball Moose 12 | + | |At Our December Meeting|Alex Colley| 2| |
- | Jottings Of A Bull Moose 12 | + | |The Great Wade|" |
- | Letter From Wick Elfick 14 | + | |Salami - Cabernossi |
- | Six Feet.. Under The Earth 17 | + | |My Love's the Mountains|Dot Butler| 9| |
- | Paddy' s Shop (advt.) | + | |Weekend At Home|"Ball Moose"|12| |
- | w11141 | + | |Jottings Of A Bull Moose| |12| |
- | 10IR0TEO2ED AREAS | + | |Letter From Mick Elfick| |14| |
- | Although volunteer bush fire brigades have been formed and equipped to undertake the fighting of bush fires in urban and rur, | + | |Six Feet Under The Earth| |17| |
- | Funds amounting to 100,000 for expenditure on planned fire iiravention | + | |
- | Following the serious fires in the Blue Mountains and other parts of tho Ooast and Tablelands during the 1957-58 fire season, the Ohief, | + | ===== Advertisements: |
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- | Embraced within these proposals are;,- | + | | |Page| |
- | The Blue Mountains Bush Fire District'. | + | |Hattswell' |
- | The Southern Highlands (Nattai) Bush Fire District. The Putty-Bush Fire District. | + | |Leica Photo Service| 7| |
+ | |Sanitarium Health Food Shop|11| | ||
+ | |Paddy' | ||
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+ | ===== Fire Prevention Schemes For Unprotected Areas. ===== | ||
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+ | Although volunteer bush fire brigades have been formed and equipped to undertake the fighting of bush fires in urban and rura1 areas, and the New South Wales Fire Brigades operate in Fire Districts | ||
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+ | Funds amounting to £100,000 for expenditure on planned fire prevention | ||
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+ | Following the serious fires in the Blue Mountains and other parts of the Coast and Tablelands during the 1957-58 fire season, the Chief Secretary, the Hon. C. A. Kelly, M.L.A., convened a special conference of the State' | ||
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+ | Embraced within these proposals are:- | ||
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+ | The Blue Mountains Bush Fire District.\\ | ||
+ | The Southern Highlands (Nattai) Bush Fire District.\\ | ||
+ | The Putty Bush Fire District.\\ | ||
The Barrington Tops Bush Fire District. | The Barrington Tops Bush Fire District. | ||
- | Broadly, the schemes are designed to include the following:* The prevention of uncontrolled fires. | + | |
- | tc The encouragement of controlled hazard reduction at safe times of the year, | + | Broadly, the schemes are designed to include the following:- |
- | The development of a system of fire trails and firebreaks in unoccupied lands. | + | |
- | The setting up of means of fire detection and communication. | + | |
- | To facilitate attacks on fires in rough or inaccess- | + | |
- | ible country at the earliest practicable stage. | + | |
- | This is of great interest and to the benefit of walkers, who know only too well how our -walking areas have suffered in recent years, | + | |
- | AT OUR DECEMBER. MEETING | + | |
- | At the commencement of the meeting our President had a busy time welcoming new members - no less than six altogether. Four of these - Jean Gordon, | + | |
- | Elizabeth Hahn, Stan Daily and Bob Godfrey (with daughter) were admitted in December, and two others, Vi Harvey and Denise Hull in November. | + | This is of great interest and to the benefit of walkers, who know only too well how our walking areas have suffered in recent years. |
- | Correspondence brought a request from the Hobart Walking Club for a donation towards the equipping of a hut at Port Davey as a memorial to the late | + | |
- | Charles King. On a motion by John. White, it was decided to donate | + | ---- |
- | A letter from Miss Daphne Ball, Hon. Sec. of the Bouddi Park Trust, said that the scrub in the park was regarded by many of the local residents as a fire menace to their properties. If they could ever prove that bushwalkers were responsible for starting a fire there it would be difficult to retain the area against the " | + | |
- | sparks into the only remaining green growth. The leader of the party, Eric | + | ===== At Our December Meeting. ===== |
- | Pegram, said that the fire complained of was already going when they got there. It was used by the whole party, and, in his opinion, there was no danger of it escaping. Bruce McInnes, who was in the party, said that the fire was in the customary place, sheltered from the wind in the lee of some bushes, and, he considered, safer than the separate camp fires of Miss Ball's party, which were surrounded by grass. Because it was sheltered from the strong Southerly there were no sparks. It was built of driftwood and there were ample people to watch and control it. John Mite and Kath McInnes confirmed these reports and Hath added that there was no danger because there was, in fact, hardly any material | + | |
- | that could burn. On a motion by Brian Harvey it was decided to write express- | + | At the commencement of the meeting our President had a busy time welcoming new members - no less than six altogether. Four of these - Jean Gordon, Elizabeth Hahn, Stan Daily and Bob Godfrey (with daughter) were admitted in December, and two others, Vi Harvey and Denise Hull in November. |
- | ing regret and advising that members had been advised to take care with future | + | |
- | fires lit in the area. | + | Correspondence brought a request from the Hobart Walking Club for a donation towards the equipping of a hut at Port Davey as a memorial to the late Charles King. On a motion by John White, it was decided to donate |
- | A notice from the Newcastle Technical College Bushwalkers informed us | + | |
- | that they were forming an association to take over White' | + | A letter from Miss Daphne Ball, Hon. Sec. of the Bouddi Park Trust, said that the scrub in the park was regarded by many of the local residents as a fire menace to their properties. If they could ever prove that bushwalkers were responsible for starting a fire there it would be difficult to retain the area against the " |
- | of 10 were available. | + | |
- | Negotiations between the Federation and property owners in Centennial Glen, Blackheath, had resulted in the property owners agreeing, willingly, to | + | A notice from the Newcastle Technical College Bushwalkers informed us that they were forming an association to take over White' |
- | let walking parties cross their land, provided they made themselves known en route. Cattle had been shot, and, as shooters with rucksacks look like | + | |
- | bushwalkers, | + | Negotiations between the Federation and property owners in Centennial Glen, Blackheath, had resulted in the property owners agreeing, willingly, to let walking parties cross their land, provided they made themselves known en route. Cattle had been shot, and, as shooters with rucksacks look like bushwalkers, |
- | advised us to let them look in our rucksacks if they wanted to check for guns. Tom Ebppett | + | |
- | and fighting fires in vacant crown land, as suggested by the S.B.W. and other bodies some years ago. | + | Tom Moppett |
- | The President informed us that several Club officers would not be | + | |
- | standing for re-election in March. These were Edna Stretton, Membership Secretary; Tom Moppett, Conservation Secretary; and Ken Meadows, Secretary. Jess Martin would appreciate someone else taking over the duplicating, | + | The President informed us that several Club officers would not be standing for re-election in March. These were Edna Stretton, Membership Secretary; Tom Moppett, Conservation Secretary; and Ken Meadows, Secretary. Jess Martin would appreciate someone else taking over the duplicating, |
- | At the conclusion of the meeting Frank Ashdown reported fresh hut building at Burning Palms and Era and the picking of wild flowers along the Princes Highway near Darkets | + | |
+ | At the conclusion of the meeting Frank Ashdown reported fresh hut building at Burning Palms and Era and the picking of wild flowers along the Princes Highway near Darke' | ||
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Dear Dorothy Dishkaway, | Dear Dorothy Dishkaway, | ||
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I have been terrorised by the concrete jungle opposite Hyde Park. During our Club Christmas Dance I was Stripping a Willow when I got a terrible agonising pain in the ankle above the feet. | I have been terrorised by the concrete jungle opposite Hyde Park. During our Club Christmas Dance I was Stripping a Willow when I got a terrible agonising pain in the ankle above the feet. | ||
- | They carried me home head first in a sleeping-bag, When I got there my ankle was all puffed up and was missing some skin. I looked at my ankle and found it had three bloody puncture marks in it. Someone suggested I had been kicked, whilst a friend said I should have been kicked anyway. The thing that worries me is that they say the Dalai Lama nests a pet poisonous snake in his beard, I couldn' | + | |
- | -- Waltzer Kruschen | + | They carried me home head first in a sleeping-bag. When I got there my ankle was all puffed up and was missing some skin. I looked at my ankle and found it had three bloody puncture marks in it. Someone suggested I had been kicked, whilst a friend said I should have been kicked anyway. The thing that worries me is that they say the Dalai Lama nests a pet poisonous snake in his beard. I couldn' |
- | 3. | + | |
- | THE GREAT MADE | + | - Waltzer Kruschen |
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+ | ===== The Great Wade. ===== | ||
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Only once before, and that in my first writing for the magazine, more years ago than I care to remember, have I felt impelled to use a pen name. Come to think of it, that was about a trip on the Colo River, too, but I then used a pseudonym because I was bashful, not for fear of the consequences. | Only once before, and that in my first writing for the magazine, more years ago than I care to remember, have I felt impelled to use a pen name. Come to think of it, that was about a trip on the Colo River, too, but I then used a pseudonym because I was bashful, not for fear of the consequences. | ||
- | Because, since the occasion of the Great Made I have learned that some fifty years ago, the purists amongst mountaineers so deplored the use of pitons that the chappie who employed them was a cad, unfit to belong to any gentlemanly Alpine Club: while twenty years later, there was great dissension on the sporting virtue of using bottled | + | |
- | Now there' | + | Because, since the occasion of the Great Wade I have learned that some fifty years ago, the purists amongst mountaineers so deplored the use of pitons that the chappie who employed them was a cad, unfit to belong to any gentlemanly Alpine Club: while twenty years later, there was great dissension on the sporting virtue of using bottled |
- | After promising to be a large party, there was a dwindling in the ranks until finally we were only six as we broke camp near the eastern end of Culoul Range on a fresh November Saturday morning, and climbed into A's land Rover. | + | |
- | The timber road was more or less traffic able for another four miles, but it was | + | Now there' |
- | still only 7.15 when J pointed to a familiar side track, and me stopned | + | |
- | We passed four hours in a journey along ridges bearing a general resemblance to much of the Blue Labyrinth, save that from the occasional high points, the country ahead, and to left and right, so far as one could see on | + | After promising to be a large party, there was a dwindling in the ranks until finally we were only six as we broke camp near the eastern end of Culoul Range on a fresh November Saturday morning, and climbed into A's land Rover. The timber road was more or less trafficable |
- | this bright morning, was a chaotic wilderness. In the Labyrinth you can | + | |
- | usually glimpse bits of Blue Mountain settlement or even the coastal | + | We passed four hours in a journey along ridges bearing a general resemblance to much of the Blue Labyrinth, save that from the occasional high points, the country ahead, and to left and right, so far as one could see on this bright morning, was a chaotic wilderness. In the Labyrinth you can usually glimpse bits of Blue Mountain settlement or even the coastal |
- | stone country vegetation. | + | |
- | Eleven thirtyish, we cane to the rim above Wollemi Creek, and from one | + | Eleven thirtyish, we came to the rim above Wollemi Creek, and from one of the cliffy outcrops looked down on a small, discoloured stream |
- | of the cliffy outcrops looked down on a small, discoloured stream | + | |
- | imperceptible rift in the chewed-up landscape, the clear waters of the Capertee | + | Intrepid types would no doubt have been down in half an hour or so, for the total descent would not have been greatly over 1,200 feet, but we were a cautious party and worked down from shelf to shelf and level to level, while I sweated considerably, |
- | entered and we were looking down on the birth of the Colo. | + | |
- | Intrepid types would no doubt have been down in half nhour or so, for | + | The leader, who "had been there several times before", |
- | the total descent would not have been greatly over 1,200 feet, but we were a | + | |
- | cautious party and worked down from shelf to shelf and level to level, while I sweated considerably, | + | Forty minutes or so after lunch, and a bit over half a mile down the Wollemi, we came to the Capertee, and therefore, the Colo. (I still think the Colo should start five miles above, at the confluence of Wolgan and Capertee, but then, cartographers are highly irresponsible people.) |
- | C and H in front of me. Then we were down on a bank of bakedand | + | |
- | The leader, who "had been there several times before", | + | The Capertee, glary be, was warm and crystal clear, and only about six inches deep, flowing over an expanse |
- | Could be good cool clear water for lunch at the junction of Munai Creek coming in from the north west a few hundred yards downstream. Having located one puddle of yellow-grey mud, we drew from the earthy-looking, | + | |
- | all. Most of the party bathed in the large waterhole in the Wollemi close by, getting an involuntary mud-packtreatment | + | Another dip for those who wanted to, and the leader said we now had between four or five miles down river to cover. It may be necessary to do the lot that afternoon if we wanted a tolerable camp site. About three o' |
- | I idly recalled Johnny Bookluck once asseverating that Tasmanian mud clung under his toe nails for six months. Of course, that was before our Great Wade. | + | |
- | Forty minutes or so after lunch, and a bit over half a mile down the Wollemi, we came to the Capertee, and therefore, the Colo. (I still think | + | I suppose we continued down the west bank of the Colo for half a mile or so: the gorge had closed in, and although the cliffs on each side were broken enough to offer endless scaling opportunities to the intrepid, they wouldn' |
- | the Colo should start five miles above, at the confluence of Wolgan and Capertee, but then, cartographers are highly irresponsible people.) | + | |
- | The Capertee, glary be, waS warm and crystal clear, and only about six inches deep, flowing over an Expanse | + | I had been eyeing the gentle looking stream, and presently could bear it no more. Flinging away my reputation as a walker like a winter garment of repentance, I mumbled to H, who was nearest and would know what I meant, " |
- | I knew a little satisfaction at being in a spot where comparatively few walkers had gone, though only seventy miles from Sydney and about five or six hours walking time from a highway. | + | |
- | | + | Very soon my sandshoes and socks filled with gravelly sand, so I peeled them off, put them dripping in the top of my 'pack, and splashed happily on, barefoot. At the first rough patch of bank, I outstripped the earth-bound party, and then H joined me. |
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- | FOR ALL YOUR TRANSPORT PROBLEMS | + | Joyously we splashed and bounded along. D and then C followed suit. Here and there were unexpected, innocent-looking |
- | CONTACT | + | |
- | HATSWELL' | + | It couldn' |
- | RING, V1RITE, WIRE or CALL | + | |
- | ANY HOUR - DAY or NIGHT | + | The means of extricating ourselves from the gorge was at the outlet of Boorai Creek, just opposite, and when it began to drizzle under an overcast |
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- | (LOOK FOR THE NEON SIG, | + | Standard ridge walking, rejoining the trunk of the Culoul Range about three miles from the road, filled the rest of that day until at 3.15 we came again to the Land Rover. |
- | SEEDY 5 OR 8 PASSENGER CARS AVAILABLE | + | |
- | LARGE OR SMALL PARTIES CATERED FOR | + | Overall, and considering that we walked in one of the least frequented |
- | PERU'S LOOK)OIN 3/- it " | + | |
- | JENOLAN STATE FOREST 20/- II II | + | |
- | CARLON' | + | |
- | millIMMMIidomONNI | + | |
- | FARES: KANANGRA WALLS 30/- per head (minimum 5 passengers) | + | |
- | II II IT | + | |
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- | !I IT !I | + | |
- | WE WILL BE PLEASED TO QUOTE TRIPS OR SPECIAL PARTIES | + | |
- | ON APPLICATION | + | |
- | ow .I.101.11.11=1M1M11111.111111MMINNIMMINIIeil.... | + | |
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- | I suppose we continued down the west bank of the Colo for half a mile or so: the gorge had closed in, and although the cliffs on each side were broken enough to offer endless scaling opportunities to the intrepid, they wouldn' | + | |
- | with earlier trips there. | + | |
- | I had been eyeing the gentle looking stream, and presently could bear | + | |
- | it no more. Flinging away my reputation as a walker like a winter garment of repentance, I mumbled to H, who was nearest and would know what I meant, " | + | |
- | Very soon my sandshoes and socks filled with gravelly sand, so I peeled | + | |
- | them off, put them dripping in the top of my 'pack, and splashed happily on, barefoot. At the first rough patch of bank, I outstripped the earth-bound | + | |
- | party, and then H joined me. | + | |
- | Joyously we splashed and bounded along. D and then C followed | + | |
- | Here and there were unexpected, innocent-looking | + | |
- | one stride you could be up to the knees, the thighs, the hips in three inches | + | |
- | of mater and one or two feet of sand with the consistency of porridge. Undeterred, we bowled noisily downstream, and presently even A and J, in whom | + | |
- | tradition died hard, were sloshing and sinking and sloshing again. It became an accepted routine, after negotiating a particularly soggy or extensive strip of quick sand, to perch on a rock or sand bank and watch the tail wallow through, | + | |
- | with some not-too-accurate shouted advice on the positions where the quick sand was quickest; and considerable ribald hilarity. | + | |
- | It couldn' | + | |
- | And, in spite of frequent flounderings, | + | |
- | wet to the hips, of course, and a veneer of coarse damp sand clung to us. Then the river began to change. Pools appeared, and rocky barriers, and at times the intervals between wadeable patches of river were long enough to - require the putting on of shoes. J, growing ashamed of the breach of trad- | + | |
- | itional | + | |
- | had to wash the rubble out of tly socks and when this was done, I was over five minutes behind the party. By going hard in the next half hour along banks that reminded me of the Grose below Wentworth Creek, I caught up at a halt, but as we moved on again, lack of condition crept up on me. By 5.50 I was lagging | + | |
- | and wishing for another good wading patch. We crossed the river and - behold, | + | |
- | the leader was striking up a scrubby bank to the foot of the tailus slope. Not yet surely? But it was, and by six o' | + | |
- | The means of extricating ourselves from the gorge was at the outlet of Boorai Creek, just opposite, and when it began to drizzle under an overcast | + | |
- | we 8karted | + | |
- | ook dowrAlinto | + | |
- | plse on *le west, then struck off along the labyrinthine ridges again. | + | |
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- | Standard ridge walking, rejoining the trunk of the Culoul Range about' | + | |
- | Overall, and considering that we walked in one of the least ftequented | + | |
However, I believe some record should be made of the first wade down the Colo: and if sensitive walkers feel that our conduct is improper, I can only urge them to try the same journey at a time when the river is low and the sun is bright and warm - and see if their rectitude and love of rock hopping will carry them dry-shod where we splashed. | However, I believe some record should be made of the first wade down the Colo: and if sensitive walkers feel that our conduct is improper, I can only urge them to try the same journey at a time when the river is low and the sun is bright and warm - and see if their rectitude and love of rock hopping will carry them dry-shod where we splashed. | ||
- | GUMBOOYA-INGA GUMBOOYA,INGA GUMBOOYA-INGA | + | |
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- | OA_ - "Liverwort | + | |
- | So read the ;: | + | === Hatswell' |
- | cable? No, a continuous sausage couldn' | + | |
- | shop first | + | For all your transport problems contact Hattswell' |
- | Determined quest from shop to shop, tape measure in hot hand. Large blacks, wrinkled browns, fat reds, some in silver paper, some in cellophanei | + | |
- | that I" (That caricature of a sausage - strings of 1.1-6" x - hardly a feed for a Jackass). "Yes, they are all like that." Obviously an authority. By the twinkle in the eye and the accent, an immigrant from the homeland of sausages. But however could seven walkers sustain themselves for four lunches | + | ' |
- | on that elongat ed morsel? Make it six feet. fTwo yards ploase,n produeing steel tape. Must find another specimen and check. Yes, there it wasp nestling amongst its brothers from Hungary, Poland, Austria. Diameter | + | |
- | MORE FREE NIGHTS | + | Speedy 5 or 8 passenger cars available. Large or small parties catered for. |
- | The Committee Members (bless 'em) have been fully aware of the fact that on the Club nights when they meet in the inner sanctum to sagely | + | |
- | Be that as it may, the now Social Programme now in the hands of members will disclose that the first Wednesday of each month is now designated a "free night" with the hope that ordinary members will come in and make it a social evening among themselves (without the added attraction of the 'Committee) just as they do on other programmed "free nights" | + | Fares: |
- | Tentative plans are afoot for such innovations as the provision of the projector in a darkened corner | + | |
- | 9. | + | * Kanangra Walls - 30/- per head (minimum 5 passengers) |
- | . ot Butler | + | * Perry' |
- | Irifittat t akes:.you. t of-t he Mountains every weekondu, they asked: | + | * Jenolan State Forest - 20/- per head (minimum 5 passengers) |
- | , | + | * Carlon' |
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- | IlListenn, she said, land I toll_ you a story. | + | We will be pleased to quote other trips or special parties on application. |
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- | It started when -1 was a little over a year -old. Family | + | ---- |
- | "'You've got four more ,11 said the doctor, a heavy man with a bill neck. !What are you co3np1aining | + | |
- | . . . | + | === Photography!? |
- | But my mother., with that unaccountable | + | |
- | "The' | + | You press the button, we'll do the rest! |
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- | , There were happypuppy | + | Finegrain Developing. Sparkling Prints. Perfect Enlargements. Your Rollfilms or Leica films deserve the best service. |
- | was the gum trees.. There was the -joy of responding | + | |
- | . , . | + | Leica Photo Service. |
- | of the earth, of trying to -unravel the myriad tiny noises, that made up a-hoisey arid who canexpla in the deep' | + | |
- | 10. | + | 31 Macquarie Place, Sydney, N.S.W. |
- | When I was five we moo south again to live at Epping, Still the friendly grey-green | + | |
- | pullers on the wattle bark, and tho irideseont b3et1ee Vat got in you,* httdr, lifting | + | ---- |
- | There were days of hot, singing | + | |
- | droned deafeningly through the pulsating | + | GUMBOOYA-INGA GUMBOOYA-INGA GUMBOOYA-INGA |
- | Some time about my tenth birthday we went to live on the western | + | |
- | Of course it was groat Alia to play down in the creek bed near home whore the ti-troos danced all in green and White, and the brown flood sang alore, | + | ---- |
- | whites and browns and reds. It would eat as a palliative for a time, and the | + | |
- | insistonoe | + | ===== Salami - Cabernossi - 54'. ===== |
- | early one Autumn morning when the wind bore a scent of other worlds - urgent, tantalising, | + | |
- | gold fire fire through our veings, we set out across the windy paddocks, following the long streamers of cloud streaking across the infinite expanse of bluoz, pointing straight to the mountains. We walked a long time. The wind arDpped, the sun rose to the mid-sky and the hot hush of noon lay over a sleeping and we, too, lay down and elopt. And in that half trance, which is tb.0 state between sleeping and waking, the doors separating this world from the nozt opened. I rose up and left. my companions, and in a rainbow mist I enterod | + | - "Liverwart". |
- | Even as I looked, the colours blurred, the light faded and the shade of evening | + | |
- | /. | + | So read the Christraas |
- | The Sanitarium Shop offers a full range of non-perishible summer foods suitable for this holiday weekend - in the bush or at the beach camp:- | + | |
- | DRIED FRUITS | + | ---- |
- | FRUIT CAKE BREAEFAST FOODS TINNED FRUIT | + | |
- | FRUIT JUICES | + | ===== More Free Nights. ===== |
- | 13 HUNTER ST SYDNEY. 13W1725. | + | |
+ | The Committee Members (bless 'em) have been fully aware of the fact that on the Club nights when they meet in the inner sanctum to sagely | ||
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+ | Be that as it may, the new Social Programme now in the hands of members will disclose that the first Wednesday of each month is now designated a "free night" with the hope that ordinary members will come in and make it a social evening among themselves (without the added attraction of the Committee) just as they do on other programmed "free nights" | ||
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+ | Tentative plans are afoot for such innovations as the provision of the projector in a darkened corner | ||
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+ | ===== My Love's The Mountain Range. ===== | ||
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+ | - Dot Butler. | ||
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+ | "What takes you to the Mountains every weekend" | ||
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+ | It started when I was a little over a year old. Family | ||
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+ | " | ||
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+ | But my mother, with that unaccountable | ||
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+ | "The world is very beautiful," | ||
+ | |||
+ | There were happy puppy days in the bright clear Queensland | ||
+ | |||
+ | When I was five we came south again to live at Epping. Still the friendly grey-green | ||
+ | |||
+ | There were days of hot, singing | ||
+ | |||
+ | Some time about my tenth birthday we went to live on the western | ||
+ | |||
+ | Of course it was great fun to play down in the creek bed near home where the ti-trees danced all in green and white, and the brown flood sang along between | ||
+ | |||
+ | Early one Autumn morning when the wind bore a scent of other worlds - urgent, tantalising, | ||
+ | |||
+ | Even as I looked, the colours blurred, the light faded and the shade of evening | ||
I don't remember how we got home, but for a long time afterwards I went round in a brown haze of reminiscence, | I don't remember how we got home, but for a long time afterwards I went round in a brown haze of reminiscence, | ||
- | However, the mountains still reMained | + | |
- | rugged sun-kissed ridges and the shining watercourses. Together we go out into quiet places, and at odd moments we may catch a glimpse of a little fleeting form from the Shadow Land, and as we lie by the camp-fire at night; watching the red sparks fly upwards in a rush of light towards the cold white, radiance of the stars,"a deep peace steals over us in the realization that we have at last come home." | + | However, the mountains still remained |
- | HEALTH FOOD SHOP 0n4VE6ETARIAN CAFE*: | + | |
- | 11. | + | ---- |
- | WANTED WANTED WANTED | + | |
- | A powerful wolf-cry capable of being heard at least one half mile away. Owner/s required to give genuine wolf-calls from a hilltop at hourly intervals' | + | === Sanitarium Health Food Shop and Vegetarian Cafe. === |
- | or as otherwise needed in the coming | + | |
- | 12. | + | __Australia Day Weekend__. |
- | WEEKEND AT HOME | + | |
- | - "Bull Moose" | + | The Sanitarium Shop offers a full range of non-perishible summer foods suitable for this holiday weekend - in the bush or at the beach camp:- |
- | I've had my meals all cooked for me And breakfast late in bed; | + | |
- | A bath that took two hours - | + | Dried fruits, rice, nut-meat, figs, beans, fruit cake, breakfast foods, tinned fruit, fruit juices, biscuits, spreads, nuts. |
+ | |||
+ | 13 Hunter St., Sydney. BW1725. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Wanted. Wanted. Wanted. === | ||
+ | |||
+ | A powerful wolf-cry capable of being heard at least one half mile away. Owner/s required to give genuine wolf-calls from a hilltop at hourly intervals or as otherwise needed in the coming | ||
+ | |||
+ | Watch Notice Board for auditions. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Weekend At Home. ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | - "Bull Moose". | ||
+ | |||
+ | I've had my meals all cooked for me\\ | ||
+ | And breakfast late in bed; \\ | ||
+ | A bath that took two hours -\\ | ||
The papers all I've read. | The papers all I've read. | ||
- | I've overeaten grossly, | + | |
- | I'm not the slightest tired. | + | I've overeaten grossly,\\ |
- | It seems so very long ago* The last time I perspired. | + | I'm not the slightest tired.\\ |
- | There' | + | It seems so very long ago\\ |
- | A drink - an easy chair; | + | The last time I perspired. |
- | An atmosphere that's heated By flowing | + | |
- | I've had my full 8 hours' sleep, And as the doctor said: | + | There' |
- | " | + | A drink - an easy chair;\\ |
- | The softness of these moccasins Is comfort, heaven knows. | + | An atmosphere that's heated\\ |
- | I slip them gently from my feet And work my battered toes. | + | By flowing |
- | No walking this weekend, | + | |
- | I should feel good, but gee, | + | I've had my full 8 hours' sleep,\\ |
- | This resting' | + | And as the doctor said:\\ |
- | JOTTINGS OF A BULL MOOSE | + | " |
- | Did you read this news item? "Baby walks at six months on Terry' | + | To soothe an aching head". |
- | Applied Psychology | + | |
+ | The softness of these moccasins\\ | ||
+ | Is comfort, heaven knows.\\ | ||
+ | I slip them gently from my feet\\ | ||
+ | And work my battered toes. | ||
+ | |||
+ | No walking this weekend,\\ | ||
+ | I should feel good, but gee,\\ | ||
+ | This resting' | ||
+ | For cripes, it's killing me. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Jottings Of A Bull Moose. ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | __Did you read this news item__? "Baby walks at six months on Terry' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Thinks - Quieter than Cornflakes anyway. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | __Applied Psychology__. | ||
Who was the attractive unknown lady walker who remarked to her friend while standing in a crowded train, "I wish that strong good-looking chap would offer me his seat, I'm so tired" | Who was the attractive unknown lady walker who remarked to her friend while standing in a crowded train, "I wish that strong good-looking chap would offer me his seat, I'm so tired" | ||
+ | |||
Immediately six men jumped to their feet. | Immediately six men jumped to their feet. | ||
- | Overheard | + | |
- | "I can't understand her. I think it =1st be drink." | + | ---- |
+ | |||
+ | __Overheard__. | ||
+ | |||
+ | "I can't understand her. I think it must be drink." | ||
"Bad luck, you should try when you're sober." | "Bad luck, you should try when you're sober." | ||
- | 13. | + | |
- | He is no walker who to the ground | + | ---- |
- | But he is walker who, with ,a sale, an rise and push another mile.: | + | |
+ | __the Walkers' | ||
+ | |||
+ | He is no walker who to the ground\\ | ||
+ | Can fall and lie without a sound. | ||
+ | |||
+ | But he is walker who, with a smile,\\ | ||
+ | Can rise and push another mile. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
Even the best of family trees has its saps and suckers. | Even the best of family trees has its saps and suckers. | ||
- | 92 AL is it Mix) | + | |
- | My advice to thq. ventureaome | + | ---- |
- | If you take the height of Mt. Gook (122406 | + | |
- | HT/ | + | __Dorothy Fix__ (or is it Mix) |
- | Sailor Beware | + | |
- | Would you say the flirting girl at the yacht c3zb was contemplating | + | My advice to the venturesome |
- | witchcraft? | + | |
- | Tikta4=x9x, | + | ---- |
- | Ignore this element awhile | + | |
- | Diva deep and glide 2, rocky aisle, | + | __Darling I'm Getting Older Dept.__ |
+ | |||
+ | If you take the height of Mt. Cook (12, | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | __Sailor Beware__. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Would you say the flirting girl at the yacht club was contemplating witchcraft? | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | __The Skindiver__. | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | Ignore this element awhile,\\ | ||
+ | Dive deep and glide a rocky aisle,\\ | ||
+ | Cool and still, yet fair to see-\\ | ||
+ | Behold the wonders of the sea.\\ | ||
+ | And in a world where fishes fly\\ | ||
Forgot that earth is slave to sky. | Forgot that earth is slave to sky. | ||
- | The Ranger at Wombeyan | + | |
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Wombeyan Caves. === | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Ranger at Wombeyan | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
14. | 14. | ||
A LETTER FROM MICK ELFICK | A LETTER FROM MICK ELFICK |
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