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+ | THE SYDNEY 3USTITIKER | ||
+ | A monthly bulletin of ;patters of interest to the. Sydney Bush VaIkers, | ||
+ | The N.S.W. Nurses,' | ||
+ | Reiby Place, Sydney. Box No. 4476 G.P.O. Sydney. | ||
+ | 'Phone JW1462 | ||
+ | 328 APRIL 1962 Price 1/- | ||
+ | |||
+ | Editor: Stuart Brooks, 5 Ingalara Rd, Reproduction: | ||
+ | Mahroonga. 484343 Sales 8c.Subs.: Lola.Aedlock | ||
+ | Bliiness Manager: Brian Harvey Typed by Shirley Dean | ||
+ | 4 | ||
+ | CONTEN:T | ||
+ | Page | ||
+ | Editorial 1 | ||
+ | :Anzac 4 | ||
+ | Reunion Report 5 | ||
+ | A Our ,innual General Meeting - lex Colley 8 | ||
+ | HUdrig in Burtna,' | ||
+ | Paddy' | ||
+ | The Rescue in Kamngra Gorge - Dot Butler 14 | ||
+ | Plumbing Troubles (Roy CrREPS ,d.) 19 | ||
+ | Social Notes 20 | ||
+ | Hi, | ||
+ | _Ls I sit here a new day begins and, with the ending of the late shaw, all is Quiet, except for the occasional patter of tiny feet bent on urgent missions. | ||
+ | Presently, shadowy figures materialise from out of the gloom, shining with ghostly radiance and cluster round my chair. A.s my eyes grow accustomed to this unearthly light, I realise the faces are familiar thPt smile' | ||
+ | 2, The Sydney Bushwalker Appril 1963 | ||
+ | lst.Ghost.. 'Nell look : | ||
+ | 4 | ||
+ | 2nd Ghost. "Do the good. Might mPke him a bit quieter if he has some work to do." | ||
+ | 3rd Ghoet. "Ch, leave him alone, you two. He'll get by somehow, just like we did.' | ||
+ | LA Ghost. " | ||
+ | 1st Ghost. "1 suppose we should give him some help. Now, let me see. Ye,s. Suppose we teach him plagiarism.' | ||
+ | 2nd Ghost "Such long words,. my friend, klexis, | ||
+ | - Will surely give this lad complexes - | ||
+ | He knows not What you mean: | ||
+ | But I'll wager on my oath | ||
+ | He'll out-do you and Butler both | ||
+ | t. this noble art," | ||
+ | (Knightly always was the poetic type.) | ||
+ | 3rd Ghost. "-dell I did get some help from other club's maEs., but they 're a bit hard to gat hold- of.' | ||
+ | 4th Ghost. "1 have thirty years' issues of S.B.A he can have. There' | ||
+ | 1st Ghost. "What will Frank ,shdawn think?u | ||
+ | 2nd Ghost. " | ||
+ | (Unfortunntely, | ||
+ | ,rd Ghost. If you boys are going to be impolite-, | ||
+ | over hand up the blind cords walks upside down across the ceiling and disappears.) | ||
+ | 4th Ghost. " | ||
+ | 1st Ghost.'" | ||
+ | 2nd Ghost. ' | ||
+ | 4th Ghost. "They don't seen to realise, that, to an editor, just a snippet of verse (doesn' | ||
+ | April l9G2 The Sydney Bishwalker 3. | ||
+ | let Ghost. "I liked those quotations of yours, Don. Mallory and all that stuff, You td think amone could dig them out, wouldn' | ||
+ | 2nd Ghost. | ||
+ | went into arguing at general meetings, you could being out a nag. every week. | ||
+ | Be a bit tough on Denise though, not to mention the post master at Willoughby." | ||
+ | 3rd Ghost. (suddenly re-appearing). n what's good on the stock market, , | ||
+ | Suddenly a voice comes from the other side of the house. "For goodness sake stop muttering to yourself and come to bed or I'll never get you up in the morning." | ||
+ | The figures have E7,ne. I pack TTT papers and head for the bathroom. | ||
+ | ......ma | ||
+ | FOR LL YOUR, | ||
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+ | 41; | ||
+ | el GN) | ||
+ | pril 1962. | ||
+ | The Sydney Bushwalkar | ||
+ | eINZ.e.G | ||
+ | .,Inzacs, and, in particular, those who loved 'the bush - | ||
+ | 4e dhall remember you in the days | ||
+ | qhen the warth winds sigh -through the lonely house,. With a scent of the burning desert ways | ||
+ | Nhere fire and storm 8nd smoke carouse; | ||
+ | We shall remember you in the spring | ||
+ | ."then the wattles flash a secret sign: | ||
+ | When winter' | ||
+ | then hillside harvests stand line on line. | ||
+ | . . | ||
+ | then: dearest comrade, yr:)ur strOng right hand n d the thought of your merry, Steadfast eyes All come like a breath of a far-off land | ||
+ | 'Where spirits like yours are glad and wise: | ||
+ | .uld apart from the world and from Time's rebuke We two dnall read the Eternal book, | ||
+ | ,lnd the loud wind sinks te a' | ||
+ | While we walk in those green paStured fields again. | ||
+ | New Zealand. -nneGlently jilson | ||
+ | TRIBUTE TO NOBLE WOM _MOOD | ||
+ | Pte John Rignold. 13th Battalion 1st IF | ||
+ | I have seen them going the whole of the day and practically through the night without pause or rest - always with a sweet smile and gentle and, Comforting words to the sufferers - always by your cot at the slightedt mdvement of the patient or sufferer - talidng, whenever occasion arose, to take our - thoughts away from the horrors that one sees all around - offering to write our, letters and making a hundred other offers of assistance. | ||
+ | Nothing that I.have seen in all this dreadful war has filled me with so Much gratitude and admiration es the services rendered so willingly, so gently, by the Nurses, and Sisters of the Expediti, | ||
+ | H.L. Galway. 3. aistralia. 1916 | ||
+ | The Iliad on the splendid achievements of the men of nzac has yet to be written. The..fine spirit,in which.. the evacuation of_Gallipoli was taken by those men and by their kinsman in :Australia, is one of which this young nation may well be proud. Such spirit is a presage of ultimate victory. | ||
+ | - Whatever regrets, | ||
+ | April 1962 | ||
+ | lae Sydney ,Bushwalker REUNION REPORT | ||
+ | 5. | ||
+ | 111.101......0.....In | ||
+ | One thing the reunion has proved - there are a lot of aleoholics who are not anonymous. | ||
+ | I don't think I have ever seen so many people in tents. 'Why, on Sunday even the heat was intense. (If you think: | ||
+ | , The smallest one to walk dawn under her own steam (with a,little help) was the lileon lass, aged 15 months - obviously good material. (Now its | ||
+ | no good rushing to phone the Hon. c6C or putting in a report to Committee if you have a younger child who made the grade unaided -.you should have broadcast it more.) | ||
+ | . some excellent groundwork was do ne by the Godfrey and his. motor mower; in hacking tracks through the Kunai Lnass. Despite a few disparaging, | ||
+ | The scene was like a bushwalkers' | ||
+ | ' The biggest bonanza was the Knightly entourage (neat word, eh?) boasting, as it did, a 10 x 8 marquee with floor, aluminium deck chairs, beach umbrella and pressur& | ||
+ | The moet' | ||
+ | The camp fire was a great success. Paddy led the singing in his own vivacious manner - first with the small fry and later with the more mature types. | ||
+ | Tara played his flute, to the envy of many a younger one whose lungs are a bit wheezy, and Christine Kirkby entranced everyone with her descant and treble recorder playing, the lic,uid music being most appropriate to the surroundings. | ||
+ | -s usual DM- talent Produced a series of entertaining sketches and it was encouraging to see the younger ones contributing their share. The Noble children with Nancy Mop-oett Eave us,The Mad Psychiatrist' | ||
+ | The Lyre Bird starred Eddie, VvaEL, Putto and.:Don Matthews with oriEinal costumes by the house of Kirkby. The.-Lyre bird's tail work like a charm | ||
+ | and :possession for it was hotly contested next day.: | ||
+ | 6. The Sydney Bushwalkur _pril 1962 La Perouse starred Ray Kirkby, Dave Ingram, Eddie (sheIstireless), | ||
+ | Knightly and a host of extras (Pretty scabby lot actually). Jim Brown, | ||
+ | ably assisted by Malcolm McGregor and Grace Rigg gave us the problems involved in running a T.V. advertising office. | ||
+ | ,-.u drey.Kenway and Bob Godfreypresiti a " | ||
+ | Later, Jim Brown auctioned off a number of slaves delivered to his care by Aodul Matthews all the way from lier, and we lc,arned a few things about.' | ||
+ | To cap it all off, Kevin rdi1 produced a. pck full of _surprises, and initiated the yaatits crop of new members. Paddy ;and Bill 7odgers (nnd we believe, Molly t6.0) scored a cup of tea in bed, and v.71rious odd shouts broke the stillness from time to time through the ensuing hours, aS the hapless members (unCer. pain of very. moVing treatment) carried nut their chores. | ||
+ | Supper was produced and served a la shdnwn; and closely resembled the original feeding of the multitudes. The battlers carried on at Zillara' | ||
+ | On Sunday morning there were a lot of bleary--dyed people staggering around, | ||
+ | though a few, valiantly persistent amidst the effervescence of youth, tried to get a little extra sleep. | ||
+ | Under Eddie' | ||
+ | some fine models. Meantime, the older children were playing up-stream, throwing | ||
+ | coloured powder all over each other. Before long the erstwhile peaceful Grose resembled the massacre of St. Francis with its brilliant red water and an occasional many-hued body floating down. | ||
+ | Audrey Kenway cleared up the damper competition with a very succulent | ||
+ | sample. n otherwise successful competition was marred by one unfortunate episode. _L competitor (who shall be nameless) resorted to the use of eggs in her damper, and was disc ualifiedi Futilely she argued that it was a roc egg and had, in fact, ceased to be an egg when it was ' | ||
+ | .1nd so, in th6 words of Fitzpatrick " 2,9 we say farewell to this glittering spectacle, this riot of colour, these natural voiden beaches, these shady woodlands,. and the interesting inhabitants with their own poculi--ir songs and legends the last figure we see as the' | ||
+ | April 1962 The Sydney Bushwalker | ||
+ | P.S. Before you parents get too excited, be warned that there is | ||
+ | no truth,in the rumour that Putto has volunteered to mind all the children at next year's reunion. | ||
+ | Official Census of 1962 --nnu a.1 Re-union. | ||
+ | Membershin Members 92 | ||
+ | Non-mbr husbands and/or | ||
+ | wivs of Active members | ||
+ | Children of above | ||
+ | Non-active Nembershin Members 6 | ||
+ | Children of snme 4 | ||
+ | Past Membership' | ||
+ | children of same 5 | ||
+ | Pro ecti-cemberthip Prospective Members 6 | ||
+ | Visitors Friends - dult Children | ||
+ | Dissection Adults Children | ||
+ | 7,EUNIO N | ||
+ | Thprnigah. | ||
+ | That first time we come in buses end campud Nearer th: riv,:x. Wasn't this the tree | ||
+ | You said Listen bell birds. There' | ||
+ | I always liked him, sonlthing long ego. | ||
+ | d11 they sing those rounds? Thu one I like - Poor Tommy Tinker; you've brought ice; | ||
+ | The children sing it now. Black 'Abel. Vory nice. | ||
+ | She was a talrgirl r:Ith-r thin. No thnt Was her friend, yml always did confuse them. Came a few times then went to England, Italy and the rest. Yes someone she met there: Someone keeps in touch. Surburban drudge. We crossed the Cox in really bitter weather, We used to go to symphonies together. | ||
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+ | 54 | ||
+ | 8. The Sydney Bushwalker 1962 | ||
+ | nT OUR _JOWL GEIEMI NETXTNG, | ||
+ | elex Colley. | ||
+ | Our thirty-fourth ennual General Meeting commenced with a welcome to new member Fred Thynne. | ||
+ | re uested at our last meeting, Brian Harvey, Magazine Business Manager, had made inquiries about a new duplicator, 2rian reported that, as a result of his investigations, | ||
+ | the magazine, which could afford this amount by reason of accumulated surpluses bringing cash in hemd and at bank to.Z96.10. (Members will recall that Fred Kennedy donated Z50 to Club funds for thiS purpose the real net cost to | ||
+ | Club funds would therefore be nil under Brian' | ||
+ | by E40. This was debated at some length, Brian. told is that the only difference between the model he proposed and the next most expensive, costing another 70 was that the more expensive machine was electrically operated. Colin Putt said that, from an engineering viewpoint, if the machine was strong enough to withstand the battering of mechaniea1 motivation it would be adequately strong for hand operation. Colin counselled spending the money immediately on a new machine before we had time to think of something else ouite useless to spend. it bn...Ray Kirkby was of the opinion that our choice should be determined by Whether it was | ||
+ | the machine or the operator, -Denise Hull, that would wear. In reply Brian | ||
+ | strongly recommended the hand operated machine, He said it would do the job adenuatay and was simple and easy to service, His motion was carried. | ||
+ | Next Jack Gentle explained to the meeting the purpese of his constitutional amendment. He said that one of the reasons for writing letters to Federation, instead of leaving Club business to our delegates, was that Federation delegates were not on committee and did not always attend general uketings. He thought it would be an advantage too if the term of our delegates corresponded with the- | ||
+ | Club year. This would enable Federation delegates from other Clubs to get to | ||
+ | know them before the annual election of Federation delegates in July. The amendment was carried, | ||
+ | In his walks report ilf Hilder told us. that his exploration of the Block- up area at the beginning of Fobru3ry had been atteinded by three' | ||
+ | 1962 The Sydney Bushwalker | ||
+ | In response to a request from Federation, Brian Harvey moved, and it was resolved, that the e.B.4 provide suitable camp fire entertainment, | ||
+ | keeping with the commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of the reservation of Bluegum forest, at the Federational annual reunion to be held there this year. Ron Knightley' | ||
+ | was seriously concerned about our report (from last meeting) of the proposed | ||
+ | bulldozed road over Cloudmaker. | ||
+ | It was decided to leave the annual subscripti n and entrance fee unchanged. | ||
+ | . Jim Brown reported mox'se dot:, traps in welkinp celAntry (one went off and grazed his Shoe). The traps are on the c; | ||
+ | In general business Elsie Bruggy appealed for lady search and rescue members. Phyllis Ratcliffe suggested that, in our lectures to scouts we Should tell them more about light-weight gear, and in partici: | ||
+ | . Heather Joyce offered the thanks of S. and R. to the penple-out on two _.recent searches. One hundred and two had turned out for the Katdomba search, thich had occasioned very favourable comment from the police. It might prove possible to recompense searchers from public funds. | ||
+ | Nhile these discussions took place the election of officdrs went on. It- ve s after 10 p m. when he President closed the meeting and called upon members to " | ||
+ | full list of office-bearers will be published next month. | ||
+ | YOU BUDD:ING FR OK HURLEY 'S: | ||
+ | Polish up the wide angle lenses and mposure meters, oil the tripod and get cracking: | ||
+ | " Why?" you ask. - Foolish yeu: | ||
+ | .apparently you haven' | ||
+ | . Don't forget, What Helen Barrett has done, any of yr,u can do (except of course, for talking George Gray into getting married. 1.nyway, why the beard now, George?) | ||
+ | So if yo q have something-good in the way rmf ,71 colour Slide, or as soon as you get such, produce it fnr scrutiny' | ||
+ | See Tom linppett (41-8873), John White (a2271 - B) or the Editor. Suggest you place it in an envelope, with your name on it. (the envelope, you clot). | ||
+ | 10 The Sydney Bushwalker .1pri...1" | ||
+ | HIKING' | ||
+ | Marie B. Byles. | ||
+ | 1 suppose you would call it hiking, not bushwalking, | ||
+ | ' But even though it was only hiking I thoroughly enjoyed the days I was taken on pilgrimage up the sacred againg hills this Christmas. They were a break in the life at meditation centres of which I have told in Journey into Burmese Silence that ..lien and Unwin have just published. Nearly every crest of these holy hills is crowned with a white and gold pagoda instead of a prosaic cairn or trig station and you are always meeting mythological beasts and golden Buddha statues and curious Nuts, the effigies of nature-spirits. | ||
+ | crossed the wide Irrawaddy river in a bat like abird apinted with gay designs, climbed up the muddy blnks to a flagged footpath whose entrance' | ||
+ | The path mounts steeply passing varinu6 humble bamboo nunneries roofed same- times with the very latest roofing material, corni-getedynn which must, make them something like ovens in-Summer. 'hove them are paletial m-masteries, | ||
+ | Higher up, the nunneries and monasteries become fewer and fewer, likewise the huge concrete' | ||
+ | Some of the paths pass through shady jungle whose taller trees, such as frangipani, and tamarind have been imported but which would now grow wild. Some ' | ||
+ | However, there are large earthenware pots containing drinking water - except being a foreigner it is unwise to drink unboiled water.- at convenient resting | ||
+ | 1962 The Sydney Bushwalker 11. | ||
+ | places, and tea-Shops and stalls at all the principal shrines, and no lack of strictly teetotal. beveragps for the hundreds of pilgrims Who come every sabbath day and sometimes on other days also Many of them have came from the most distant parts of Burma and it it usually these' | ||
+ | But perhaps the most satisfying aspect of the sacred hills nre the countleSs small pagodas falling into ruinwhich no one bothers to repair. Gradually-the coating of white washed concrete chips off aided by a few earthcuakes and reveals the red bricks beneath, the most vulnerable of all materils to the trembling of | ||
+ | the earth, One large pagoda Ms h3d a huge piece bitten nut of it by an earthcuake and now stands perilously above monasteries, | ||
+ | little further up the Irrawaddy ric)-er arc the' | ||
+ | the meditator wrIuld have to be fairly proficient to sit in them without distraction. | ||
+ | Alway-s from the tops of the hills you look oler hUngle and gleaming white shrines to the calm blUe waters of the Irrawaddy river, whose banks in winter are | ||
+ | planted with a patchwork of crops bordered with a fringe of emerald green rice. Here the hard-working peasant, his wife and his faithful bullocks ploughs the earth | ||
+ | With the same wooden Plough that has been used for thousands of yeart and sow and | ||
+ | reap the harvest. He does not mind much whether he pays his taxes to U Nu's Government or General Ne Win's or to some rebel chief, On special days he visits the shrines; at other times he makes gifts to monks and pagodas and puts flowers before the effigies of the NUts. There is no hunger in-Burma and at all times hecalls his bullocks by endearing names, pets his children and is always ready to laugh and be friendly. | ||
+ | The sacred hills are a delic htful district for hiking provided you go with a heart that does not mind taking off shoes and going down with the-face on the gmand before sacred shrinee and orange-robed monks - nuns do not count: | ||
+ | Overheard in the clubroom. "le 's a real puritan. HuTs myver cot over being born in bed with a 1,1dy. | ||
+ | SEN Crossword L ' | ||
+ | 1 across. - Silence a letter to make a product that wasn't very popular A rencint social evening. | ||
+ | pamiNG LKS. | ||
+ | APRIL. St. Anthony' | ||
+ | 13.14.1 Leader; Peter Stitt. 1.a33817e*tn 23 (3)'. Private transport. | ||
+ | .11 mystery walk. Be warned, Peter has not -been ,here and is 'going | ||
+ | on Boy BroWn' | ||
+ | - | ||
+ | 19.20.21. Easter' | ||
+ | 22.23. There are three official walk s Eoing. Prospectives should note that while these are not m-Irked as t. -.,-stwalks they may be accepted as such on a recommendation of the leader. -" | ||
+ | Cars to The Vince - the Castle rmd. return - 30m - R. ' | ||
+ | ' bit bout it before you go y rending Colin ' | ||
+ | Leader Eric dcock U 3257. Private transport. | ||
+ | 2. Glen Davis - Capertee R. - Mt. Uraterer - Capertoe R Wolgan R. - Newnes Glen Davis. 14.8ra. R. | ||
+ | trip for the rugged and energetic. (A poor sense of smell will also be an advantage if Wilftakes his acetylene lamp). This is ciillenging, | ||
+ | Badgery' | ||
+ | This is good walking-country. Half the walk is on the tops till"' | ||
+ | Blackheath - Blue Gum - Locklay' | ||
+ | perennial favourite you'll ' | ||
+ | MI | ||
+ | 4.5.6 Barallier - MUrrun Ck Bindnck Gorge - Murrun CR - Barallier - 25m R. Rugged stuff. - trip for the coeri ed walker, to whom it should prove most interesting | ||
+ | Leader - Mick Elfick Private Transport. | ||
+ | 5.6 Glenbrook - St. Helena - Western Ck Martin' | ||
+ | 1. | ||
+ | -WPWAMMWM1, | ||
+ | it44 | ||
+ | ,11,11H0 S GOING 74AL.160G ?? - you J.I.FLE I t. | ||
+ | Then here is hn..n dy reminder list -t,c5 help you put the right gear in your rucksP.ck and really | ||
+ | ENJOY THE WEEKEND | ||
+ | Batteries Boot3 aces Tent Cord First Aid. | ||
+ | Dried Vegetables Lemon & Lime Powder Windja cket Torch & Spare Globes Heat Tablets Primus Stove Water, Bucket Food Containers Shoulder. Pads Maps & Compass Tin Opener Leather Dressing | ||
+ | Socks Sleeping Bag Cover Waterproof Rucksack-- lining ,A Rugged Rough-wool -Norwegia n Jumper,. | ||
+ | - | ||
+ | NO !!! , | ||
+ | | ||
+ | the' kids.- PerhQ.ps. an air-bed or stretcher will ease the ageing bones. ne have pletity cif 41z incly - items just for car campers. Come in. | ||
+ | 'LL BE BUSY AT ESTER - so see us soon ;!! | ||
+ | P.S. | ||
+ | Ask to see our latest super lightweight rrylon-groundsheetcapes weight- ,9 ozs , | ||
+ | APDV PAWN r:ct | ||
+ | Lighiweight Camp Gear. | ||
+ | 201 CASTLE REACH $4 SYDNEY | ||
+ | BM 2683 | ||
+ | 14. Th'e -pril2. | ||
+ | . | ||
+ | THE 7.:SCUE IN IMIANGR," | ||
+ | Dot Butler. | ||
+ | _Tice steep country south-east from ' | ||
+ | Fired by enthusiasm a party of young people, members of the 8ydne-y University Climbing 'Club, set out for the big adventure, a descent of Kanangra. Gotge, retur*ing to the Plateau byway of Murdering Gully. They Carefully_ practiced their ,newlf learnt art of abseiling, being careful to select adecuate belays to tie the | ||
+ | -approved 'knots and handle the ropes correctly. The accident happened so suddenly, | ||
+ | Some -of the boys had successfully descended the cliff by the w.71-berfal1, | ||
+ | waterfall chute to lie, an inert her-T, in the creek some 30 feet beloi He was in great pain as they picked him up and. carefully carried him to the only bit of | ||
+ | level ground they could find, a few sTruare yards F.t the side 'of the gorge sheltered by a small clump of trees. Here they spent an an.,-TiouS nirtt, ' | ||
+ | straight for home he would make a side trip to show them Kanangra Walls, when he was accosted by this group of worried boys. "' | ||
+ | asked their spokesman deferentially. " | ||
+ | "Are you a practicing nua lified medical practioner?" | ||
+ | So the relieved boys' poured out the whole story and Bob went straight 'back with them. | ||
+ | Back in the gorge a silent group sat with their injured friend. There was little they could do to ease his pain. vben Bob arrived he diagnosed the trouble, gave pain-Idlling drugs, strapped up the broken feet with adhesive bandages | ||
+ | bandaged up the sprained wrist and ' | ||
+ | afternoon, It soon became evident that the party was not strong enough to try | ||
+ | rescue operations. l 'qhen they tried out tie borrowed stretcher its sh' | ||
+ | and ,it is still lying down in Kan-ng;ra Gorge, ' | ||
+ | with Dick, Bob and the rest of the -party 4itabed out of the Gorge, drove down to ,Caves House, and sent an r.O.S. -bhrough to Sydney th it thi s was a search and Rescue job, and all available manpower, especially' | ||
+ | ,April 1962 The Sydney Bushwalker 15 | ||
+ | Meanwhile, how are the potential rescuers spending their time, u/aware | ||
+ | of what is in store for them? Speaking for the Bushwalkers, | ||
+ | uners I didn't get any sleep either, but who cares, we can fall into bed and | ||
+ | sleep like logs when we get home on Sunday night. That sounds very nice in theory, | ||
+ | but What actually happens? I have just hit the pillow at 9 p m. when the phone | ||
+ | rings. Can I set out immediately for a rescue down Kanangra Gorge? Yes, of course | ||
+ | Itm available. Very well then, David Roots will collect Rus Kippax and Les Tattersall of the Rock Climbing Club and then will pick up me. Be ready to leave in half an hour, So I put on my shorts and shirt again, get out the pack:and put in nylon rope, sling and Karabiner, 8 bananas and a tin of herrings which seems to be the only food left in the house, and a sleeping bag, hoping there may a chance for an hour's sleep when we get to Kanangra. Then the Rootsie' | ||
+ | Crammed in the front seat we made the long journey through the night, and just as dawn was streaking the sky saw the half dozen cars pulled up by the roadside near the nud hut site. A sleeping-bagged figure sat up in one of the cars and a torch Showed up Paddy' | ||
+ | I, together with Colin Oloman who had brouent up the news of the accident, dodging the newspaper reporters and photographers, | ||
+ | We now had a close inspection of the three possible mays out, chose the one we-liked best and sent up a pre-arranged signal to Col Oloman who had waited up | ||
+ | above the waterfall, He went back to the waiting cars to bring the men and equipment to the top of our rescue route, and for two or three hours while awaiting their arrival with the ropes and stretcher we reconnoitred up and down the rock faces, cleared away some of the debris and vegetable growth on our selected route, and then had a brief snooze in the sun. Dave Roots and Rus got their heads together and worked out the mechanics of the flying-fox ropeways they would need, Dave lugging around a small pack heavy with his beloved pitons, expansion bolts, escaliers, piton hammer and all the rest of the ironmongery. Is it U or non-U to climb mountains with all these mechanical aids? I had rather inclined to the latter belief, but have now completely reversed my opinion; without David and his irontongery they would never have got the boy out. David worked with all the ardour of an artist at his mok, and enjoyed every minute of it. | ||
+ | Ndw here is a pleasant little entre-act which may entertain the audience. | ||
+ | Rus asked me to do a bit of scouting around up the precipice to see if I could find an alternative way out for the camp-followers, | ||
+ | 16 The 3.vdne-7 Bushwalker pril 1962 | ||
+ | A | ||
+ | tree line above. Thinking, it would he infer if I had an ice axe to dig steps | ||
+ | up the mud, I cast around for a likely piece-of stick to use and f(lund something 'about 15 inches long that looked like a useful tool, 1/Then I finally surmounted the climb and was about to throw away my trusty tool I tool: a lodk at it '-Ind -discovered it was a human leg bone, Now here was an enthralling mystery for the police to solve:. But how was I to take the bone bock? I couldn' | ||
+ | The boys don in the gully had now strapped Dick intO the canvas and bamboo stretcher loaned by the Police, and could be seen as tiny ant-like figures | ||
+ | bringing him up the rocky moraint to the base of the cliff,' | ||
+ | Now the stretcher was pulled un, Dick was stranned in atain, 'end the interesting business of launching him on the first of '? | ||
+ | .pril 1962 The Sydney Bushwelkor 17. | ||
+ | to the extreme end of the rope, lifted off onto the small ledge hardly big enough to take the stretcher, let alone the helpers, ferried along another bit of ledge and launched on the next aerial ropeway. This one had no landing platform, as the only belay available was a tree growing out from the side of the cliff, with only enough room for Rus to stand and pull the stretcher across. However, if | ||
+ | we could lassoo the bearing rope from a little side waterfall chute we could pull him across the necessary five or six feet and land him there. This called for some very precise judgement, because the for end of the rope had to be slackened as the near end of the rope was pulled in to the chute, and both sets of operators were out of sight and call of each other, However, by sending a messenger back and forth across the face, bringing :nd relaying messages the job was done, and it was with more than mare relief that we got him safely pulled in and lr nded. | ||
+ | Now it was necessary to manhandle the stretcher up e tricky bit of rock to | ||
+ | a knife-edge ridge which lies like a partition between the two parts of the gulley. The track clearers had done good work here with the-axes and the sweating bearers did the rest. On the ride top they took a well earndd reat, while the Ca= followers came up behind, untying and coiling up the ropes, and bringing along the packs. Yarmak with half a thousand feet of rope coiled around him, looked like an advertisement for Michigan tyres as he crept around the ledges. | ||
+ | - Now it was necessary to slide the stretcher down from this ridge into the creek in the next gully. Downhill was obviously much easier than uphill, and the bearers slid down with great gusto and surprised even themselves when they arrived so quickly at the creek, Here another well earned rest, and while we were resting Who should comp clambering dawn but good old Paddy, and a little later Bob Binks. They had a little reassuring chat with Dick, Who had borne all this juggling about of his defenceless body with uncomplaining fortitude. He had supreme confidence in his rescrare That's a good may to be, when you have no choice. | ||
+ | - -"I was in your shop on Friday," | ||
+ | a ding from you." ". Oh py goodness," | ||
+ | Down at the creek bed a pleasant surprise awaited us. :fhile we had been entirely engrossed in the goings in the first gully, Ron etridrop and his helpers had been hard at it in this gully and a whole set of ropes had been erected up the steep mountain side, so it was only a matter of hooking on our burden and hauling away. It was now about 3 p m. have him out by dark, we told Paddy as he and Bob started back up the creek the way they had come. I don't think Paddy quite believed this, or else he didn't want to raise the hopes of Dick's mother waiting beck at, Caves House incase she should be disappointed. ,.inyhow the news got beck to the Press and the ,.B.0 that the patient was not likely to be brouEht out that night. While an avid public was being regaled with this bit of news the rescuers worked on relentlessly. By now they had properly pot the fool of things, and they ceme up like a rocket - the stretcher and six bearers; | ||
+ | The Sydney MueLwalkar ,nril 1962 | ||
+ | By about 5o' | ||
+ | it soon gave up, Final4 the route led up a slope where a number of loose rocks were dislodged and went hurtling down towards the stretcher. The bearers scattered. with loud shouts and curses, and Dick's guardian angel safeguarded his defenceless head as the great blocks 1. 11-st and exploded all around him. Finally up to the plateau top by 6,30 p m just as dark came on and a thick mist enveloped the whole scene, Here Nin Melville was waiting with a number of torches, so all 'who had spare hands took one and an eerie walk began with torches ahead flashing through the swirling gloom, and shouts of " | ||
+ | We walked across the Plateau by instanct, came to the correct creek-crossing in the dark and when about a mile from the cars Nin let out piercing whistles which were answered by honkf ng of car horns, and we came in by radar as it were. | ||
+ | Dick was transferred to Bob Bthks Station waggon with a nice soft mattress | ||
+ | in it, taken down to Caves House to a waiting mother who ran to him and kissed him through the window; and then Bob drove them down to Sydney and the North Shore Hospital for Dick, | ||
+ | The rescuers. sorted out their gear as best they could be means of someone' | ||
+ | arc light, then Rus and Rootsie and Les and I drove off through the dark, a.- glance | ||
+ | - back showing the edifying scene of press reporters taking down somebody' | ||
+ | in little notebooks, and those somebodies weren' | ||
+ | Down to Caves House, there Dick's brother was manfully delving, into his pocket every time another car arrived, and shouting the occupants to drinks.. 72Ve finished up thirty-five of us in, the louhc-e, where rough walking types are not -- | ||
+ | usually welcomed, drinking beer and answering roll call. One boy who was | ||
+ | still a bit shakey le:nocked over his glass of beer. We mopped it up with asmall handkerchief and wrung it back into his glass, leaving it for the drinks waiter. It would be a pity if the Caves House proprietor thought we were rough uncoUth types, Who go around making messes, ,nd here, too I was re-united with my pack. Some kind person had picked it up down in the second gully and brought it all this way for me, He didn't know my shoes were in it, I Had been doing-all the rock- face climbing bare-footed but when we got into the scree gullie I could have Used :them. With a feeling of thankfulness I clothed myself in my Shoes and gave Rootsie teak his nylon socks | ||
+ | Then Heigh-ho for home and bed by 2 am, Tuesday No sleep since the nrevious Friday night. It will take wild hones to get me up dliring the next twelve hours. The' | ||
+ | :._nother working bee was held at Lovett Bay, Pittw ater, on 24-25th March under thu guidance of John hhite. The object was to clear the tracks from | ||
+ | the Kuringai Trust' | ||
+ | the tops. 7 ' | ||
+ | Some good work was done clearing the Pockley' | ||
+ | The Sydney Bushwaker | ||
+ | PLUMBING TR 0' S ? ? ? | ||
+ | ROOF., ' | ||
+ | Ta ROOF :.ND CTUTT:TRIM N RE-P: | ||
+ | ril. 1962 | ||
+ | DO YOU' | ||
+ | :- OR DOES | ||
+ | OR PERH-PS | ||
+ | L. NEW WATER SERVICE OR HOT-VTR INST-LL-TION ? ? | ||
+ | No job is too small - for anyplumbing installations or alterati-ns | ||
+ | YOU NEED ROY 'S FRIENDLY PLUMBING SERVICE | ||
+ | | ||
+ | REMEMBER - YOU ND ROY ?3 FRIENDLY SERVICE '. | ||
+ | 19 | ||
+ | 20 . The Sydney Bushwalknr ,qpril 1962. olo from our eocial Secreta | ||
+ | The reason why " Back of Beyond" | ||
+ | I wish to extend my humble apologies to you all especially to those who made a big effort to get into see it. | ||
+ | Molly Rodgers. | ||
+ | P.S. I hope to have ' Back of Beyond on the September to December programme, that is, if I haven' | ||
+ | &&&&& | ||
+ | Spcial 7.6/ | ||
+ | 46 members nd friends attended the thdatr pnrty to see Luisillo and his Spanish !Dance Theatre on 6th March, ax]d IlLid a very enjoyable evening. | ||
+ | We left the theatre with the clicking of cestaniAs end-the rythmicsteaming of agile feet in our ears. Proceeds from the evening amounted to E5.15.0. | ||
+ | On 21st March, Ninian Melville, Federation' | ||
+ | D _.Y WiLKS. | ||
+ | April 29. Campbelltown - bus to ,,ppin - George' | ||
+ | This trip will visit a small section of George' | ||
+ | 8..25 a m. GOulburntrnin Central Steam Station to Campbelltnwn. | ||
+ | 10 a m. bus.Campbelltown to 2.pnin. | ||
+ | Fares: Campbelltown return 7/6 plus about 2/6 bus fare. | ||
+ | Map, Camden Military. Leader: David Ingram. | ||
+ | May 6. -t the time of going to press, no day welksehave been volunteered for May 13. these two dates on the ferthcming Ivalks Programme. | ||
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