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|Editorial| | 1| | |Editorial| | 1| | ||
- | |At Our August Meeting|A.Colley| 2| | + | |At Our August Meeting|A. Colley| 2| |
|Day Walks| | 4| | |Day Walks| | 4| | ||
|The First Gangerang Walk|Max Gentle| 5| | |The First Gangerang Walk|Max Gentle| 5| | ||
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|Science, Naturally| | 8| | |Science, Naturally| | 8| | ||
|How the Sun Was Made| | 9| | |How the Sun Was Made| | 9| | ||
- | |Mountain Farming in Now Zealand|R.Kennealey|12| | + | |Mountain Farming in Now Zealand|R. Kennealey|12| |
|On The Spirit of the Folk Songs|Thornigah|16| | |On The Spirit of the Folk Songs|Thornigah|16| | ||
|Federation Report| |19| | |Federation Report| |19| | ||
- | |Hilda Stoddart - Orbituary| |20| | + | |Hilda Stoddart - Obituary| |20| |
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According to the paper version, Paul Griffiths and Fred Kitchener were climbing together, when Kitchener decided to rest, and Griffiths went on alone. Kitchener saw Griffiths above him, saw him slip and fall, and (still according to the paper) could orly watch, powerless, as Griffiths plummetted past him. | According to the paper version, Paul Griffiths and Fred Kitchener were climbing together, when Kitchener decided to rest, and Griffiths went on alone. Kitchener saw Griffiths above him, saw him slip and fall, and (still according to the paper) could orly watch, powerless, as Griffiths plummetted past him. | ||
- | The truth of the matter is that Griffiths and Kitchener were climbing, roped together. Other pairs climbers, similarly employed were in the vicinity. Both were climbers of some experience, Kitchener | + | The truth of the matter is that Griffiths and Kitchener were climbing, roped together. Other pairs climbers, similarly employed were in the vicinity. Both were climbers of some experience, Kitchener |
Subsequent investigation showed that the knot in Griffiths' | Subsequent investigation showed that the knot in Griffiths' | ||
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Such is tragedy. A moment' | Such is tragedy. A moment' | ||
- | The fact that Paul Griffiths was rock ciithang | + | The fact that Paul Griffiths was rock climbing |
And so that Paul Griffiths should not have died in vain, we all should take this lesson deeply to heart. | And so that Paul Griffiths should not have died in vain, we all should take this lesson deeply to heart. | ||
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- | , | + | ===== At Our August Meeting. ===== |
- | AT OUR AUGST MEETING. | + | |
Alex Colley. | Alex Colley. | ||
- | Our meeting commenced with'a short silence in memory of one of the very early Club members - Max Gentle, and two othermembers | + | |
- | The president extended a welcome to new members - jean and Alex Burton and Stan McDonald. | + | Our meeting commenced with a short silence in memory of one of the very early Club members - Max Gentle, and two other members |
+ | |||
+ | The president extended a welcome to new members - Jean and Alex Burton and Stan McDonald. | ||
In correspondence there was a post-card from Edna Stretton and Sheila Binns, who had scaled, or by other means arrived, at the top of Snowdon and posted it from there. | In correspondence there was a post-card from Edna Stretton and Sheila Binns, who had scaled, or by other means arrived, at the top of Snowdon and posted it from there. | ||
- | The Treasurer reported receipt of further sdbscriptions to the value of C3l.5.-. Fund were increased by a donation of 2/- and a sale of tumblers. | ||
- | The Walks Secretary reported an active month. The first walk of the month - Waterfall to Audley, led by Dick Childs, attracted 13 members 8 ptictpectiyes and ? yisitOrs. Sheila Tadman' | ||
- | September, 1962 | ||
- | The Sydney Bushwalker 3 | ||
- | back along the road while Jack Gentle led the main party along the scheduled route. The wildflowers were profuse. Snow Brown had 7 starters on his Jerricknorra Creek walk and there were 9 members and 3 prospectives on Jim Brown' | ||
- | time. There were 21 starters on Jack Gentle' | ||
- | is still in good shape, despite the bulldozing thereabout, except that three | ||
- | small trees have been cut down. On Dick Child' | ||
- | Brian Harvey sent a message to say that he was unable to continue as a member | ||
- | of the panel of lecturers. Colin Putt offered to fill the gap and was appointed to the panel. A Parks and Playground delegate will be elected at the half- yearly meeting. | ||
- | On behalf of the Club Bill Rodgers extended congratulations to Lynette White and,Roy Craggs on their recent engagement. | ||
- | Wilf Hilder then told us of a new edition of the 4 miles to the inch Sydney Geological map, a new Wollongong sheet and a new edition of Myles Dunphy' | ||
- | successful in prosecuting trespassers through the gate to their properties, but Mr. Lang didn't mind letting walkers have the key to the gate when requested (Frank Leyden' | ||
- | After electing Don Matthews, Jack Gentle, Lynette White and Eileen Taylor as room stewards, the meeting drew to a close at 9.6 p m. | ||
- | On every train or plane or bus | + | The Treasurer reported receipt of further subscriptions to the value of £3l.5.-. Fund were increased by a donation of 2/- and a sale of tumblers. |
- | There is a child who makes a fuss - | + | |
- | A restless kid who writhes and stands | + | The Walks Secretary reported an active month. The first walk of the month - Waterfall to Audley, led by Dick Childs, attracted 13 members 8 prospectives and 2 visitors. Sheila Tadman' |
- | And eats and gropes with sticky hands. | + | |
- | In and out, out and in | + | Brian Harvey sent a message to say that he was unable to continue as a member of the panel of lecturers. Colin Putt offered to fill the gap and was appointed to the panel. A Parks and Playground delegate will be elected at the half-yearly meeting. |
- | And always going where he 's been. | + | |
- | If I'm disturbed, and somewhat vexed, too | + | On behalf of the Club Bill Rodgers extended congratulations to Lynette White and Roy Craggs on their recent engagement. |
- | The reason is, it's he I'm next to. | + | |
- | And yet I really cannot whine | + | Wilf Hilder then told us of a new edition of the 4 miles to the inch Sydney Geological map, a new Wollongong sheet and a new edition of Myles Dunphy' |
- | Because my luck is bad. He 's R.A. | + | |
- | The Sydney Bushwalker September 1962 | + | After electing Don Matthews, Jack Gentle, Lynette White and Eileen Taylor as room stewards, the meeting drew to a close at 9.6 p.m. |
- | DAT. WALES. | + | |
- | SEPTEMBER | + | ---- |
- | It is some time since this aount-rY- | + | |
+ | On every train or plane or bus\\ | ||
+ | There is a child who makes a fuss -\\ | ||
+ | A restless kid who writhes and stands\\ | ||
+ | And eats and gropes with sticky hands.\\ | ||
+ | In and out, out and in\\ | ||
+ | And always going where he's been.\\ | ||
+ | If I'm disturbed, and somewhat vexed, too\\ | ||
+ | The reason is, it's he I'm next to.\\ | ||
+ | And yet I really cannot whine\\ | ||
+ | Because my luck is bad. He' | ||
+ | |||
+ | R.A. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Day Walks. ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | === September | ||
+ | |||
+ | Cowan - Cole Trig. - Porto Bay - Railway Dam - Brooklyn. 12 miles. | ||
+ | |||
+ | It is some time since this country | ||
+ | |||
+ | Train: | ||
Map: Broken Bay Military or Hawkesbury River Tourist. Leader: Jim Brown. | Map: Broken Bay Military or Hawkesbury River Tourist. Leader: Jim Brown. | ||
- | OCTOBER 7 | ||
- | OCTCEER 14 | ||
- | Waterfall , Mt. Westmacott - Heathcote Creek - ,Heathcote. 9 miles. | ||
- | In recent years there has been a splendid showing of Native Rose | ||
- | on Mt. Westmacott Although a little late in. the flowering season, there could be some nice specimens about.. Suitable for new members. . . | ||
- | . . | ||
- | . | ||
- | Train: 8.50 a me Cronulla train from Central lectric Station. Change at SUTHERLAND for rail motor to Waterfall. Tickets: Waterfall return @ 5/9.. | ||
- | Map: Port Hacking Tourist. . | ||
- | Leader: Ramon UTrien. | ||
- | HOrnsby - Koala Bear Park.., Bobbin H ead Thg Sphinx!- Turramurra. 9 miles. | ||
- | This trip includes a vi sit to the 'Koala Bear Sanctuary in KUringai Chase-and then. ' | ||
- | Chase. . 4 | ||
- | Train: 9.10 abmr, Hornsby via Bridge from Central llectric | ||
- | Station. , Tickets:' | ||
- | Leader: Gladys Roberts. | ||
- | Your editor still has a slightly pink face after last month' | ||
- | trumpets for the new series of articles on recipes, and, its subsequent omission. | ||
- | We trust you didn't spend too long looking for it. This omission was due to a last minute alteration in the form of the magazine and part of staff. With luck: , | ||
- | These articles are to deal with food and its preparation, | ||
- | Anwar, don't be backward, Let's hear from you. | ||
- | September 1962 The Sydney Bushwalker | ||
- | THE FIRST GANGE_LING WA.Z. Max Gentle. | ||
- | After :visiting. Kanangra-.: Walls; | + | === October 7 === |
- | , . .. . i | + | |
- | ,.. While' 'fellow member,.:Myles Dunphy, tempted | + | Waterfall - Mt. Westmacott - Heathcote Creek - Heathcote. 9 miles. |
- | . . | + | |
- | Upper Kowtai-ig "' | + | In recent years there has been a splendid showing of Native Rose on Mt. Westmacott. Although a little late in the flowering season, there could be some nice specimens about. Suitable for new members. |
- | .., i | + | |
- | greater attraction. -. | + | Train: 8.50 a.m. Cronulla train from Central Electric Station. Change at Sutherland for rail motor to Waterfall. Tickets: Waterfall return @ 5/9. |
- | . | + | |
- | . :-- | + | Map: Port Hacking Tourist. Leader: Ramon U' |
- | | + | |
- | A Burragorang Cattleman, Michael Maxwell; had been' On part- of Gangerang; and information given by him indicated the best places to climb the range, and its low cliffs also where water might be found. | + | === October 14 === |
- | . . : | + | |
- | While I was On a Friday evening train journey on Eight Hour -weekend, 1929,. a chance.. meeting with Gordon Smith, at Valley Heights, resulted in having | + | Hornsby |
- | I knew that Gordon would 'see-the 'distance because he --wa8 50 -miles- champion road walker, of Australia. Needless to:say we made good progress on the .-iralk-: | + | |
- | a log fire.. Fortunately the :weather was 'fine and ' clears | + | This trip includes a visit to the Koala Bear Sanctuary in Kuringai Chase and then traverses a picturesque portion of the Chase. |
- | ..., We, reactied. otil' breal-dast s:Lte 9/1..Cox's River at 8.30 a m., and thY-Q9x Kowmq-n | + | |
- | .g. - ' | + | Train: 9.10 a.m. Hornsby |
- | . .,.. . .. | + | |
- | At 2.30 p m. an Saturday afternoon' | + | Map: Broken Bay Military. Leader: Gladys Roberts. |
- | . Ra nge., from a point: one mile further up. the Cox.- The-..ridge Iiira6 -Erb- first | + | |
- | . lightly timbered grassy slope,: and rose. very steeply for -ab' | + | ---- |
- | skirted here, being similar to the' | + | |
- | View opened out up the Cox gorge, as far as the 11libnangar60 Cieli": | + | Your editor still has a slightly pink face after last month' |
- | .... by Surveyor Govett 's writings, and its western tributary, rising near the-," | + | |
- | proonounced | + | We trust you didn't spend too long looking for it. This omission was due to a last minute alteration in the form of the magazine and part of its staff. With luck you'll find it in this issue. |
- | . . | + | |
- | I' | + | These articles are to deal with food and its preparation, and can only come from you. Comments on diet and food lists, how you carry your food and quantities are of equal interest to its preparation, |
- | About four miles from our viewiloint' | + | |
- | plateau, and so we continued to ascend the ridge w e weri ,on, 'which was seen | + | Anyway, don't be backward. Let's hear from you. |
- | ... . | + | |
- | swinging more to the southwest; in thaedirection. | + | ---- |
- | Otir route' laY through a thick forest of Turpentine and Eucain-Dtus" | + | |
- | but we sonitimes | + | ===== The First Gangerang Walk ===== |
- | .;:ancl,across- the Komung.River,.to Byrnes Gap, and TonaiLi ange. . | + | |
- | : | + | Max Gentle. |
- | . Nightfall found 'us caiappd 'an d'bed or' | + | |
- | . | + | After visiting Kanangra Walls, via Gingra, in August, 1928, my next ambition was to walk over the Gangrang |
- | ngra.. in August, 1928; my next ange, On joining | + | |
+ | While fellow member, Myles Dunphy, tempted | ||
+ | |||
+ | A Burragorang Cattleman, Michael Maxwell; had been on part of Gangerang, and information given by him indicated the best places to climb the range, and its low cliffs, also where water might be found. | ||
+ | |||
+ | While I was on a Friday evening train journey on Eight Hour weekend, 1929, a chance meeting with Gordon Smith, at Valley Heights, resulted in having company on my Gangerang walk, instead of going alone. | ||
+ | |||
+ | I knew that Gordon would see the distance because he was 50 miles champion road walker of Australia. Needless to say we made good progress on the walk out from Wentworth Fails that night to our camp site at the Sunset Rock. No tent, blankets or sleeping bags were carried and we slept on a bed of leaves by a log fire. Fortunately the weather was fine and clear, | ||
+ | |||
+ | We reached our breakfast site on Cox's River at 8.30 a.m., and the Kowmung | ||
+ | |||
+ | At 2.30 p.m. on Saturday afternoon we commenced | ||
+ | |||
+ | About four miles from our viewpoint could be seen the low cliffs of Gangerang plateau, and so we continued to ascend the ridge we were on, which was seen swinging more to the southwest, in that direction. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Our route lay through a thick forest of Turpentine and Eucalyptus saplings, but we sometimes | ||
+ | |||
+ | Nightfall found us camped on a bed of leaves by a log fire, and we each had a two quart billy of water, which we had carried up from the river. | ||
+ | |||
+ | At daybreak next morning we continued walking along the thickly timbered flat topped ridge, which soon commenced to rise steeply, and eventually reached the foot of the low cliffs of sandstone and conglomerate. | ||
+ | |||
+ | A way up was found through a break in these cliffs (Gentle's Pass) on the Ti-willa Creek side, and then, after walking a mile on a lightly timbered, stony ridge on the plateau, a stop was made for breakfast by a running stream, in a swampy upland gully. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Later we walked southward over a slight rise, and then across the main marsh of the plateau, in the direction of a high hill, which we then thought to be the Gangerang peak. On reaching its crest we could see higher land ahead, and further progress was temporarily halted by a precipitous canyon, which a creek from the marsh had cut right through the ridge we were on (a geographical rarity). | ||
+ | |||
+ | This creek was later to be named "Dex Creek", | ||
+ | |||
+ | After crossing Dex Creek, a well defined quartzite ridge led us along to the highest point of the range (Mt. Cloudmaker) at 12 noon, where marvellous views opened out over Kanangra gorge, and the famous walls, glowing in the sunlight. | ||
+ | |||
+ | The ridge then became very spectacular, | ||
+ | |||
+ | A very steep climb followed and presently we came to the foot of Craft's Wall, which we avoided, by keeping on its east side. After passing a number of caves, formed by the overhanging walls, we found ourselves on the main ridge again, which, after less than a mile, ended under the walls of Kanangra Tops. A break in the walls, 100 yards to the south, provided a way up. This was later to be named "Smith's Pass". From there it was easy going west past Mt. Maxwell and over a narrow neck to the iron ladder. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Our campsite for the night, in the cave with the dance platform, was reached at 4 p.m. a little over a day's walk from the Cox-Kowmung junction. | ||
+ | |||
+ | On Monday morning Gordon was more at ease, walking along the old cart track to Jenolan Caves. We passed through the Grand Arch there at 1.30 p.m., and continued walking along the road for another 11 miles before being given a ride in a service car to Mt. Victoria, in time to catch the 7.15 p.m. train to Sydney. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Thus ended a good three days walk, but the next few months saw the first ascent of Mt. Paralyser and Thurat, the first visit to Mt. Guouogang, and the first walk along Yellow Dog. | ||
+ | |||
+ | I remember standing on Mt. Moorilla, after a spell of torrential rain, in June 1930, when the view from there was really a picture, as it included five big waterfalls on the side of Thurat, which are not usually running. Next day, the first descent of Ti-willa Buttress | ||
+ | |||
+ | It was good to walk along the well defined ridges of this predominantly quartzite country. The experience gained in bushwalking there was essential to us in 1931, when we ventured into a relatively dry Capertee-Colo area, which is only partly surveyed, but otherwise of rugged sandstone country, deeply intersected by ravines. | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Try This Recipe. ===== | ||
- | 6 The Sydney Bushwalker September 1962 | ||
- | At daybreak next morning we continued Walking along the thickly timbered flat topped ridge, -which soon commenced to rise steeply, and eventually rached the foot of the low cliffs of sandstone and conglomcrte. | ||
- | A way up was found through a break in these Cliffs (Gcntle' | ||
- | on the Creek side, and then, after walking a mile on a lightly timbered, story ridge on the plateau, a stop was made for breakfast by a running stream, in a swampy upland gully. | ||
- | Later we walked southward over a slight rise, and then across the main marsh of the plateau, in the direction of a high hill, which we then thought to tie the Gangerang peak. On reaching its crest we could see higher land-ahead, and further progress was temporarily halted by a precipitous canyon, which a creek | ||
- | from the marsh had cut right through the ridge we were on (a geographical rarity). | ||
- | This creek was later to be named "Dex Creek", | ||
- | After crossing Dex Creeki a well defined quartzite ridge led us along to the highest point of the range (Mt. Cloudmaker) at 12 noon, where marvellous view opened out over Kanangra gorge, and the famous walls, glowing in the sunlight. | ||
- | The ridge then became very spectacular, | ||
- | A ire* steep climb followed and presently we came to the foot of Craft' | ||
- | . 100 yards 'to the south, provided a way up. This was later to be named " | ||
- | Our campsite, | ||
- | On Monday morning Gordon was more at ease, walking along the old cart track to Jenolan Caves. We apssed through the Grand Arch there at 1.30 p m., and continued walking along the road for another 11 miles before being given a ride in a service car to Mt. Victoria, in time to catch the 7.15 p m, train to Sydney. | ||
- | September 1962 | ||
- | The Sydney Bushwalker 7 | ||
- | Thus ended a good three days walk, but the next few months saw the first ascent of Mt. Paralyser and Thurat, the first visit to ht. Guouogang, and the first walk along Yellow Dog. | ||
- | I remember standing on Mt. Moorilla, after a spell of torrential rain, in June 1930, when the view from there wasreally a picture, as it included five big waterfalls an. the side of Thurat, which are not usually running. Next day, the first descent of Ti-willa Buttress was made. | ||
- | It was goad to walk along the well defined ridges of this predominantly luartmite country, The experienue gained in bushwalking there was essential | ||
- | to us in 1931, when we ventured into a relatively dry Capertee-Colo area which is only partly surveyed, but otherwise of rugged sandstone country l deeply intersected by ravines. | ||
- | . 7 k | ||
- | TRY THIS RECIPE | ||
(Suitable more for reunions or field weekends than rugged walks). | (Suitable more for reunions or field weekends than rugged walks). | ||
- | Steak a l'asply | + | |
- | MariNate | + | === Steak a l'Eucalypt. === |
- | " | + | |
- | " | + | Marinate |
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | So I look up pickle. | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
I call in the cooking expert round the house. | I call in the cooking expert round the house. | ||
- | " | + | |
- | Marinate a good thick slab of steak in claret with chopped garlic | + | " |
- | for an hour. Then rub both sides well with butter and season with spices to your own taste. | + | |
+ | Marinate a good thick slab of steak in claret with chopped garlic for an hour. Then rub both sides well with butter and season with spices to your own taste. | ||
Have a hot plate ready over a charcoal fire. Place gum leaves above and below the steak and cook fast. | Have a hot plate ready over a charcoal fire. Place gum leaves above and below the steak and cook fast. | ||
- | Serve with a glass of cool claret. This we guarantee. | ||
- | Anyone who thinks television has killed conversations doesn' | ||
- | C .41...za r.-V | ||
- | H) | ||
- | 8 The Sydney Bushvalker September 1962 SCIENCE., NATURALLY | ||
- | Photo facts for hoto fiends. | ||
- | Some subjects reouir.; 1 wide angle lens. | ||
- | Ticks. | ||
- | Australia has the dubious honour of possessing one of the worlds few poisonous ticks, the socalled grass tick. | ||
- | ' As usual, it is the female of the species that causes all the trouble. Before she can lay her eggs, she needs a feed of blood: and to this end, she attaches herself to a passing host, by into the host's flesh a barbed proboscis. The barbs are similar to those on a fish hook; and it is virtually impossible-for the host to scratch the tick off. | ||
- | For the first two days, the tick grows very little in size7 but during this period, it forms a completely new outer skin. For the next three days it. grows ' rapidly to the size of a pea. At this stage, it injects a digestive juice into the host, which dissolves the flesh around the barbs and allows the tick to fall off. She then lays her batch of eggs on the ground. | ||
- | These eventually hatch into larvae, which climb up the blades of grass and wait for a host to come along. They attach themselves to the host, lust like Mum, have a suck, and drop off: They then twin into nymphs; a sexless, intermediate stage in the life of the tick. The nymph also goes through the blood sucking | ||
- | -routine before it finally changes into the adult, male or female, tick. Like leedhes, ticks have few attractive features, but like most things in nature, they do have their fascinating side. | ||
- | September. 1962. | ||
- | The Sydney Bushwalker | ||
- | - - | ||
- | HOW THE SUN WAS MADE, | ||
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- | 7 / | + | Serve with a glass of cool claret. |
- | 0'4 4, 4 4 1 - | + | |
- | ."" | + | This we guarantee. |
- | #4 4': `" 4 _,'": | + | |
- | Elk, ,, 4, 7,-- / , ' | + | ---- |
- | IP* 4 a / .44,,\-\...":" | + | |
- | ,i, to 4. I I / | + | Anyone who thinks television has killed conversation, doesn't pay the phone bill. |
- | ,..../ 6 . 1 | + | |
- | i I t | + | ---- |
- | 4 4 1 ? 1 t 4.41, | + | |
- | .. it 4 V.,, \,...\!. | + | ===== Science, Naturally. ===== |
- | Ali 4 | + | |
- | , * * 44 \ \ | + | __Photo facts for photo fiends.__ |
- | ',. | + | |
- | fr44*** *\'`. | + | [ Cartoon of photographer taking |
- | , *It 4 | + | |
- | A 4 4* a0 | + | Caption: Some subjects require a wide angle lens. |
- | t * | + | |
- | 44 iel" | + | === Ticks. === |
- | 0 11 0 | + | |
- | (a description of the drawing is at thL, (.:nd of th,- article) | + | Australia has the dubious honour of possessing one of the worlds few poisonous ticks, the so-called grass tick. |
+ | |||
+ | As usual, it is the female of the species that causes all the trouble. Before she can lay her eggs, she needs a feed of blood: and to this end, she attaches herself to a passing host, by inserting into the host's flesh a barbed proboscis. The barbs are similar to those on a fish hook, and it is virtually impossible for the host to scratch the tick off. | ||
+ | |||
+ | For the first two days, the tick grows very little in size, but during this period, it forms a completely new outer skin. For the next three days it grows rapidly to the size of a pea. At this stage, it injects a digestive juice into the host, which dissolves the flesh around the barbs and allows the tick to fall off. She then lays her batch of eggs on the ground. | ||
+ | |||
+ | These eventually hatch into larvae, which climb up the blades of grass and wait for a host to come along. They attach themselves to the host, just like Mum, have a suck, and drop off. They then turn into nymphs; a sexless, intermediate stage in the life of the tick. The nymph also goes through the blood sucking routine before | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== How The Sun Was Made. ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | [ Aboriginal artwork ] | ||
+ | |||
+ | (a description of the drawing is at the end of the article) | ||
For a long time there was no suns only a moon and stars. That was before there were men on the earth, only birds and beasts, all of which were many sizes larger than they are now. | For a long time there was no suns only a moon and stars. That was before there were men on the earth, only birds and beasts, all of which were many sizes larger than they are now. | ||
- | .; | + | |
- | One day Dinevan the emu and Braga the native companion were on a large plain near the Murrumbidgee. There they were, quarrelling and fighting. Brolga, in her rage, rushed to the nest of Dinewan and seized from it one of the huge eggs, Which she threw -with all her force up to the sky. There it broke on a heap of firewood, which burst into flame as the yellow yolk split all over it, which - flame lit up the world below, ,to the. astoriishthent | + | One day Dinevan the emu and Brolga |
- | A good spirit who lived in the sky saw how bright and beaatiful | + | |
- | a fire every day; which from that time he has done. All night he and his attendant spirits collect wood and heap it up. When the heap is nearly big enough they send out the morning star to warn those on earth that the fire will soon be lit. | + | A good spirit who lived in the sky saw how bright and beautiful |
- | 10 The Sydney B ushwalker September 1962 | + | |
- | The spirits, | + | The spirits, |
At last one evening they heard the laughter of Goo-goor-gaga the laughing jackass ringing through the air. | At last one evening they heard the laughter of Goo-goor-gaga the laughing jackass ringing through the air. | ||
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"That is the noise we want," they said. | "That is the noise we want," they said. | ||
- | Then they told Goo-goor-gaga that, as the morning star faded and the day damned, he was every morning to laugh his loudest, that his laughter might awaken all sleepers before sunrise, If he would not agree to do this, then no more modld they light the sun-fire, but let the earth be ever in twilight again. | + | |
+ | Then they told Goo-goor-gaga that, as the morning star faded and the day dawned, he was every morning to laugh his loudest, that his laughter might awaken all sleepers before sunrise. If he would not agree to do this, then no more would they light the sun-fire, but let the earth be ever in twilight again. | ||
But Goo-goor-gaga saved the light for the world. | But Goo-goor-gaga saved the light for the world. | ||
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He agreed to laugh his loudest at every damn of day; which he has done ever since, making the air ring with his loud cackling, " | He agreed to laugh his loudest at every damn of day; which he has done ever since, making the air ring with his loud cackling, " | ||
- | When the spirits first light the fire it does not throw out much heat. But by the middle of the day when the whole heap of firewood is in a blaze, the heat is fierce. After that it begins to die gradually away until only red embers are left at sunset; and they quickly die out, except a few the spirits cover up with clouds, and save to light the heap of mood they get ready for the next day. | + | |
- | Children are not alloyed | + | When the spirits first light the fire it does not throw out much heat. But by the middle of the day when the whole heap of firewood is in a blaze, the heat is fierce. After that it begins to die gradually away until only red embers are left at sunset; and they quickly die out, except a few the spirits cover up with clouds, and save to light the heap of wood they get ready for the next day. |
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+ | Children are not allowed | ||
If children do laugh as he does, an extra tooth grows above their eye-tooth, so that they carry a mark of their mockery in punishment for it, because well the good spirits know that if ever a time comes wherein the Goo-goor-gagas cease laughing to herald the sun, then the time will have come when no more Daens are seen in the land; and darkness will reign once more. | If children do laugh as he does, an extra tooth grows above their eye-tooth, so that they carry a mark of their mockery in punishment for it, because well the good spirits know that if ever a time comes wherein the Goo-goor-gagas cease laughing to herald the sun, then the time will have come when no more Daens are seen in the land; and darkness will reign once more. | ||
- | Here is the good spirit who decided to keep the fire going to | + | ---- |
- | light the yorld each day. Around him is the Emu, the Native Companion and the Kookaburra. Up beside the spirit' | + | |
- | part represent all the talk that went on at the beginning of the story and later the chuckling of the Kookaburra. | + | Here is the good spirit who decided to keep the fire going to light the world each day. Around him is the Emu, the Native Companion and the Kookaburra. Up beside the spirit' |
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- | ..;; | + | === Paddy Made. === |
The coldest day in Sydney' | The coldest day in Sydney' | ||
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- | 12. - The Sydney Bushwalker | ||
- | MOUNTAIN FAR1EDTG | ||
- | Ron Kennealey | ||
- | High country musterers never walk: with a light step, even at two-thirty a m. The row their tri-cuni studded boots made on the bare pine floor, of Nacorora' | ||
- | of people bound by an easy bond of past associations passed between the homestead people and the four hired musterers as they Stamped into...the breakfast table. Evan, Kevin and the two Peters had staged an unexpected and riotous | ||
- | arrival during dinner some several hours earlier. That they would ,make such | ||
- | a rigorous reappearance after a brief absence was hardly what I had anticipated, | ||
- | . far above tourist level. The light mist which hung around. the house evoked a | ||
- | loud discussion about the chances of it clearing; for if it stayed on the high | ||
- | slopes, there..would be no musteAng that day. The musterers talked and argued loudly and assertively; | ||
- | the teed for a compromising statement, especially when the talk hinged as it largely did on dogs, sheep, mothitains and meni. They occasionally lapsed into narrow dogmatic statements but far more frequently were they given to humour bawdy, ironic and ludicrous. Few people that I have known could match these hardy dhepherd5for early morning gUsto& | ||
- | Out in the yard it twas. Still dark and the process of assembling the day's bontingeht of dogs proidtited more donfusion than system. Ihreats, | ||
- | Far more alarming, however, were the sudden outbreaks of violence among the third class passengers. New Zealand' | ||
- | moves, for the combatants were not selective. The free-for-ails were quelled by -vigorous use of a hill-stick. | ||
- | After eight or ten miles the Rover stopped, the crate door was dropped and the dogs became a brief tumbling stream. The mist showed signs of clearing and Evan decided to go up. I was the end man in the line that moved off up the winding track through the fern and manuka scrub. The fast pace Ryan set against the Steep grade was at first enjoyable as it di6elled the chill of the morning drive, but when gooseflesh had been entirely replaced by perspiration there was no lessening of the tempo of the march. I thought they were trying me out in the way veterans are ever prone to test novices, but to have kept Up with them entailed a possibility of my becoming a temporary immobile heap, so I fagged behind. | ||
- | September 1962 The SydneyBushwalker 13 | ||
- | Eater I was to realize that their rate Of travel was a natural one born of years on the hills and far removed from exhibitionism. They- waited for me to | ||
- | catch up. at an elevation: | ||
- | hearted stream of talk he diredted at his dogs, the sheep and anything else | ||
- | in earshot. The dogs, who with one exception, never moved far from him appeared to enjoy his company' | ||
- | loyalties by referring to the Bear0.4 Miss Swanson (a Manaka female he detested All terms unflattering to both parties. Miss ,Swanson (Beardy -variety) parried | ||
- | ,the unsults by scratching her ear in iery leisurely-fashion. | ||
- | - | ||
- | When Evan eventually appeared as a...very sdall, | ||
- | away. In its early stages the muster_ vas largely a series oft contests between dog..(generally one", ocassionally two) and little, groups of ewe: | ||
- | We move in a jig-jog pattern along the slope ever looking out for the odd sheep that sheltered: | ||
- | Or heard the-shouts of one of the 'other musterers and more' rarely caught a glimpse | ||
- | . . | ||
- | of Evan against the snow clad top of the mountain; | ||
- | At the point where the descent to the yards beiah the numerous stately | ||
- | processions lost their dignity and merged.Ed form a noisy milling masS. With | ||
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- | The Sydney Bushwalker September 1962 | ||
- | When the dogs gave up the lambs stopped high above us. The process of apprehending the fugitives was a lengthy and strenuous affair for the dogs were limited in handling lambs separated from the ewes. The lambs lacking the older sheep' | ||
- | By a series of strategisms we out-generalled them, but the effort it involved made the earlier part of the.: day a picnic affair. | ||
- | By half past three the first day was virtually over but my tally of new experiences was not completes My conviction of two months duration that New Zealand beer was an error in chemistry inflicted on an unfortunate population was lost that afternoon. The cameradie of the mountain nomads, the magnificent scenery and a state of dehydration were together responsible. I se t by the road side sharing in the gay- tumiltuous conversation of the musterers and delighting, on a now familiar basis, at the loveliness of the long blue lake with its framework of ungentle snow topped. mountains and all the while finding unexpected pleasure in the taste of south Island beer. It had been an interesting day from any aspect. | ||
- | The next morning I awoke early but no steel clad boot broke the silend of the old house. Instead there was the more addeptable sound of light rain singing a soft song against the roof. There would be no mustering that daY. I went Cheerfully back to sleep on the thought of a late leisurely breakfast in a warm room. | ||
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- | On 16th a partyof 37 members and friends saw "The Sentimental Bloke" at the Theatre Royal. Although the evening was a social success the same. could not be said financially. | ||
- | On 22nd Mrs. Mccomdh told us a little of the events in her life as | ||
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- | 16 The Sydney B1)shwalker September 1962 | + | |
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+ | ===== Mountain Farming In New Zealand. ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Ron Kennealey. | ||
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+ | High country musterers never walk with a light step, even at two-thirty a.m. The row their tri-cuni studded boots made on the bare pine floor of Macorora' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Out in the yard it was still dark and the process of assembling the day's contingent of dogs produced more confusion than system. Threats, cajoling and physical persuasion per manuka hill stick finally got all thirty two dogs inside the crate on the Rover. Limited seating consigned two men to the dog box. The Rover like all old station vehicles was occasionally as headstrong as a young horse and on a road which provided a magnificent view of Lake Wanaka (in the daylight), but no great sense of security, these performances were a bit alarming! Far more alarming, however, were the sudden outbreaks of violence among the third class passengers. New Zealand sheep dogs fight with less provocation than Irish race-goers and during the donnybrooks one had to be ready for swift evasive moves, for the combatants were not selective. The free-for-alls were quelled by vigorous use of a hill-stick. | ||
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+ | After eight or ten miles the Rover stopped, the crate door was dropped and the dogs became a brief tumbling stream. The mist showed signs of clearing and Evan decided to go up. I was the end man in the line that moved off up the winding track through the fern and manuka scrub. The fast pace Evan set against the steep grade was at first enjoyable as it dispelled the chill of the morning drive, but when gooseflesh had been entirely replaced by perspiration there was no lessening of the tempo of the march. I thought they were trying me out in the way veterans are ever prone to test novices, but to have kept up with them entailed a possibility of my becoming a temporary immobile heap, so I fagged behind. | ||
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+ | Later I was to realize that their rate of travel was a natural one born of years on the hills and far removed from exhibitionism. They waited for me to catch up at an elevation from the road side of about fifteen hundred feet where Evan had stopped to point out to each of the men his "beat" or section of the mountain side for the day. Shawn stayed behind while the rest of us started running again. The long even slopes which lifted steeply from the lake gave way to more rugged country as we climbed higher. When Peter reached his stopping point I stayed with him. I need the rest and I enjoyed the light hearted stream of talk he directed at his dogs, the sheep and anything else in earshot. The dogs, who with one exception, never moved far from him appeared to enjoy his company also. The exception was a fine looking Beardy bitch who attached herself to me. Peter expressed his indignation at this transfer of loyalties by referring to the Beardy as Miss Swanson (a Wanaka female he detested) in terms unflattering to both parties. Miss Swanson (Beardy variety) parried the insults by scratching her ear in very leisurely fashion. | ||
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+ | When Evan eventually appeared as a very small figure on the skyline it was time to start the real business of the day. Between the 1ot of us, working at widely dispersed points, we would clear the long flank of the mountain of ewes and lambs and bring them down to the yards near the roadside some four miles away. In its early stages the muster was largely a series of contests between dog (generally one, occasionally two) and little groups of ewes and lambs. The encounters were always interesting to watch and the result never certain. The mountain matrons had far more independence of mind, and more courage than sheep of the plains and a wrong move by the shepherding dog operating to a whistle code, could precipitate a headlong rush in the wrong direction. On the steep and rough terrain this could mean the sheep being lost to the muster. However, the tally of such losses was small for a high country musterer does not long cultivate the company of a dog given to errors of judgement. | ||
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+ | We move in a jig-jog pattern along the slope ever looking out for the odd sheep that sheltered behind piles of boulders or grazed at the foot of the frequent cliffs. The heavy tussock grass that covered much of the mountainside was physically exacting for the dogs during their fast out-flanking movements. I appreciated the need for the dawn start and the large number of dogs - in the heat of the day the winter conditioned animals were disinclined to travel quickly and the exertion of the long uphill runs would have soon exhausted a lone dog. After a couple of hours the numerous little groups had merged to become a series of winding lines of slowly moving sheep. Occasionally we caught sight or heard the shouts of one of the other musterers and more rarely caught a glimpse of Evan against the snow clad top of the mountain. | ||
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+ | At the point where the descent to the yards began the numerous stately processions lost their dignity and merged to form a noisy milling mass. With reunion of men and dogs complete I anticipated a fairly easy conclusion to what had been a fairly strenuous morning but in doing so I hopelessly underrated the opposition. Without warning a couple of lambs cut off from the side of the mob and went helter-skelter back up the mountain. Immediately there were thirty or forty more lambs racing wildly behind them, and the dogs, incapable of restraint in their excitement making frenzied but useless chase after them. | ||
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+ | When the dogs gave up the lambs stopped high above us. The process of apprehending the fugitives was a lengthy and strenuous affair for the dogs were limited in handling lambs separated from the ewes. The lambs lacking the older sheep' | ||
+ | |||
+ | By half past three the first day was virtually over but my tally of new experiences was not complete. My conviction of two months duration that New Zealand beer was an error in chemistry inflicted on an unfortunate population was lost that afternoon. The cameradie of the mountain nomads, the magnificent scenery and a state of dehydration were together responsible. I sat by the road side sharing in the gay tumultuous conversation of the musterers and delighting, on a now familiar basis, at the loveliness of the long blue lake with its framework of ungentle snow topped mountains and all the while finding unexpected pleasure in the taste of south Island beer. It had been an interesting day from any aspect. | ||
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+ | The next morning I awoke early but no steel clad boot broke the silence of the old house. Instead there was the more acceptable sound of light rain singing a soft song against the roof. There would be no mustering that day. I went cheerfully back to sleep on the thought of a late leisurely breakfast in a warm room. | ||
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+ | ===== Last Month' | ||
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+ | Malcolm McGregor' | ||
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+ | On 16th a party of 37 members and friends saw "The Sentimental Bloke" at the Theatre Royal. Although the evening was a social success the same could not be said financially. | ||
+ | |||
+ | On 22nd Mrs. McComish told us a little of the events in her life as a field naturalist which eventually brought her by cargo boat to Thursday Island and the time she went out with the pearling fleet. Mrs. McComish spiced her talk (her 653rd) with many amusing anecdotes and showed us, among other things, some beautiful shells and one of 14 books filled with her paintings of the native flowers of various islands. | ||
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Thornigah. | Thornigah. | ||
- | It is a trite observation that folk songs are a reflection of the condition of the people. In the English speaking world there are several bodies of folk music; the parent Anglo-Saxon and Irish songs and the derived American and Australian songs using very often the same tunes, Each body gives insights into the differences between the people and in the case of the derived songs the differences in the modes of colonisation and the philosophies of the early people in either continent. | + | |
- | 'Interest in folk songs and the elevation of " | + | It is a trite observation that folk songs are a reflection of the condition of the people. In the English speaking world there are several bodies of folk music; the parent Anglo-Saxon and Irish songs and the derived American and Australian songs using very often the same tunes. Each body gives insights into the differences between the people and in the case of the derived songs the differences in the modes of colonisation and the philosophies of the early people in either continent. |
- | the published songs were to be sung by school children (?) Considerable | + | |
- | unconscious amorality. Emphasis on the tune rather than on the unravelling of the linguisiic | + | Interest in folk songs and the elevation of " |
- | with or without the benefit of clergy and the symbols in the poetry are fertility symbols. There is little or no supernatural element - the Irish traditional body | + | |
- | of song takes that for its own preservec | + | How did the traditional song fare when it crossed |
- | How did the traditional song fare when it cz ossed the oceans to the new colonies? | + | |
- | In America it was preserved almost unaltered. Cecil Sharp collecting in | + | In America it was preserved almost unaltered. Cecil Sharp collecting in the early years found recognisable songs three hundred years old. At least he could recognise the tunes but found the words coarser and more unprintable. This is reasonable. The American colonies were settled predominantly by family groups, each group in a community of similar groups, English Catholics in Maryland, Puritans in New England, and the Irish and Scots of Kentucky and Virginia. Expansion of the frontier was slow, there was always time for consolidation, |
- | the early years found recognisable songs three hundred years old. At least | + | |
- | he could recognise the tunes but flaund | + | In the Australian body of song there is no spectrum comparable to the range of - |
- | away. But always there was continuity of family life and the consititutional | + | |
- | of the pursuit of happiness and to heighten the culture there was the cla6h with other cultures, French Canadian, the Spahish | + | "On the wedding night,\\ |
- | and the pervading strict-form blues of the negro The climate accorded with the | + | When he came to bed with me\\ |
- | old fertility chants and the essenLial religou | + | He bit me on the shoulder\\ |
- | September 1962 The Sydney Bushwalker 171: | + | He nearly broke my knee." |
- | ! In the Australian body of song there is no spectrum comparable to the range of - | + | |
- | "On the wedding night, | + | to |
- | When he came to bed with me He bit 'me on the shoulder He nearly broke my knee." | + | |
- | "Hush little | + | "Hush little |
+ | You know your mamma was born to die\\ | ||
+ | All my trials Lord\\ | ||
Soon be over." | Soon be over." | ||
- | The contrast with Australian folk songs is noticeable. Australian | + | |
- | songs are songs of revolt - it is no accident that The Wild Colonial Boy is | + | The contrast with Australian folk songs is noticeable. Australian songs are songs of revolt - it is no accident that The Wild Colonial Boy is sung to the tune of The Wearing of the Green. They were hanging men at Castle Hill on the evidence of the song having been sung. The early music is Irish music; in the decade before the gold rush the population was fifty percent Irish born and it is reasonable to assume the condition of such a part of the population impressed itself on the literature of folk songs. |
- | !sung to the tune of The Wearing of the Green. They were hanging men at Castle Hill on the evidence of the song having been sung. The early music is Irish music; in the decade before the gold rush the population was fifty percent | + | |
- | Irish born and it is reasonable to assume the condition of such 'a part of the population impressed itself on the literature of folk songs. | + | What was its condition? |
- | What vas its condition? | + | |
- | Transported and brutalised by what was to them a foreign power the complexities and strangeness of the country gave to the habit of revolt the habit of irony and the songs are distinguished by a habit of irony and the -complete absence of the fertility symbols. They are songs of men alone, rootless, | + | Transported and brutalised by what was to them a foreign power the complexities and strangeness of the country gave to the habit of revolt the habit of irony and the songs are distinguished by a habit of irony and the complete absence of the fertility symbols. They are songs of men alone, rootless, with little or no ties, familiar or otherwise even in Ireland the reckoning of relationship was son - father and possibly grandfather with no cross ties of allegiance. There are no love songs of significance, |
- | "I mean to get a wife, boys, | + | |
+ | "I mean to get a wife, boys,\\ | ||
When I get up to town." | When I get up to town." | ||
- | ? The & | + | |
- | With no women available the men travelled the country, working, | + | The original |
- | their erstwhile gaolers made freedom a shade sweeter and their independence of their former masters more pointed, A man alone was no longer defenceless or | + | |
- | suspect as in a family oriented community. Independence was the needed quality to survive and the most independent were the bushrangers; | + | With no women available the men travelled the country, working, |
- | 1 | + | |
- | 18 The Sydney Bushwalker September 1962 | + | There are distinct stages in the repertoire. " |
- | There are distinct stages in the rePertoire. " | + | |
- | age and perceived, invented, the legend of mateship, while Paterson elevated | + | |
- | the viability of the bush worker into Mystic | + | |
"They sing in September the sweet songs of May." | "They sing in September the sweet songs of May." | ||
- | they have, | ||
- | could never be completely iymPathetia with the transported Irish rebel. in the Old Bark Hut. . | ||
- | Ironic poetry is deeply concerned with the ' | ||
- | ft | ||
- | DATES TO REMEMBER IN SEPTEMBER | ||
- | 19th The Shell Film "BACK OF BEYCND" | ||
- | 26th Although marked a free-night' | ||
- | Another of their entertaining "song. night." | ||
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- | 19 The Sydney Bushwalker September 1962 | + | they have obscured |
- | FEDERATION REPORT - JULY 1962 | + | |
- | Attendance of S.B.W. Delefates. This was the Annual Meeting of Federation, but two ofour delegages did not notify their inability to attend or offer any apology to the meeting, with the result that no arrangements were made | + | |
- | for substitute delegates to attend and bring our representation up to full | + | |
- | - | + | |
- | strength. | + | |
- | Search and Rescue. The services of S R were not called upon during the past month. The newly formed Rock Rescue Team is now functioning under the leadership of Colin Putt, It is hoped to purchase an L4Mil6 field transmitter (25 watt) for use by the section. A Guessing Competition has been organised for the purpose of buying S &R gear. Tickets are available in the Club Room each Wednesday evening at 2/- each and the prize Will be a C25.0.0 order on Paddy Pallin for the purchase ofwalking :or skiing gear. The Winner will be announced at the Annual Ball on 14th SeptembE,r, 1962. It was reported that ticket sales appear to be satisfactory. | + | |
- | "The Bushwalker Annual 1961". A total of 2912 copies were received from the printer. Up to 30th June 1962, 2001 copies | + | |
- | 55.0.0. | + | |
- | "The Bushwalker' | + | |
- | last effOrt, the publications Committee is going ahead with the ' | + | |
- | _otherwise Federation wiLtfind itself in financial difficultiEjs.. | + | |
- | Heathcote Primitive Area. Locked gates are to be installed to bar entrance to motor vehicles to certain electricity supply access roads. Poisen sprays are | + | |
- | still being used, but with care; by the Electricity Commission to destroy vegetation under the power lines crossing the reserve. Access by the Water | + | |
- | | + | |
- | . elected to the Trust, A full time ranger has been appointed | + | |
- | . (Mt. King George) and picnic facilities provided. | + | |
- | RamE: | + | |
- | Song Book. The Kameruka Club and the Hobnails Club are jointly prbducing a p3ng 18dok. It is proposed to donate the proceeds to Federation (S & R Funds) when production costs have been mete. Full support for the publication is requested from all affiliated Clubs. | + | |
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- | 20 , The Sydney Bushwalker September 1962 | + | |
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- | The Club lost an esteemed member -with'trie sudden death of Hilda Stoddart on 5th August, 1962 at the,age of, | + | |
- | " | + | |
- | 1935 and, with her daughter Mary (later Mrs. Bob Eastoe) did many interesting trips, particularly in the Talbingo and-Brindabella areas prior to the snowy Mountains Authority commencing activities-there. | + | |
- | She was interested in all conservation activities and was a tireless worker in that causew.,As practical evidence Hilda was our representative at | + | |
- | the meetings of the Parks and Playgrounds Movement. She was also a keen | + | |
- | member of the National Park: | + | |
- | ' As a resident of the Manly District for many years Stoddie loved the Pittwater section of KUringai Chase. At wild flower time -.every year she took:Club walks, Church groups and other: interested parties dyer to Lovett | + | |
- | and Fowler' | + | |
- | ' In recent years the well made tracks have become overgrown; mainly through lack of use. Stoddie wrote to the Trust and to this Club suggesting a working bee to clear them up. John White orgapised the party and a lot of good work was done at Lovett Bak. It is to be hoped that the -work will be continued and completed as a tribute to.Stoddie' | + | |
- | ameimwwwelmi a.... | + | |
- | BY PtPULLR REQU-JaST | + | Ironic poetry is deeply concerned with the complexities and paradoxes of experience. The habit of irony is not dead. When we sing of making Bob Menzies load the pig iron for Japan we are, perhaps, making traditional verse in the main stream of Australian folk music. |
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- | *. SAM.' ARY-7F43RUARY 1931: .b y Miles | + | |
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- | Commencing | + | |
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- | Dumhy.,,,, | + | |
- | l | + | |
+ | ===== Dates To Remember In September. ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | 19th - The Shell Film "Back of Beyond" | ||
+ | |||
+ | 26th - Although marked a free night on the programme we've invited Malcolm McGregor and Jim Brown to give us another of their entertaining "song night." | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===== Federation Report - July 1962. ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Attendance of S.B.W. Delegates. === | ||
+ | |||
+ | This was the Annual Meeting of Federation, but two of our delegates did not notify their inability to attend or offer any apology to the meeting, with the result that no arrangements were made for substitute delegates to attend and bring our representation up to full strength. | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Search and Rescue. === | ||
+ | |||
+ | The services of S & R were not called upon during the past month. The newly formed Rock Rescue Team is now functioning under the leadership of Colin Putt. It is hoped to purchase an L.M.l6 field transmitter (25 watt) for use by the section. A __Guessing Competition__ has been organised for the purpose of buying S & R gear. Tickets are available in the Club Room each Wednesday evening at 2/- each and the prize will be a £25.0.0 order on Paddy Pallin for the purchase of walking or skiing gear. The Winner will be announced at the Annual Ball on 14th September, 1962. It was reported that ticket sales appear to be satisfactory. | ||
+ | |||
+ | === "The Bushwalker Annual 1961". === | ||
+ | |||
+ | A total of 2912 copies were received from the printer. Up to 30th June 1962, 2001 copies have been sold, of which Paddy Pallin purchased 1,000 for subsequent sale in his shop. C.M.W. and the Bush Club sold over 100 copies each and the remaining clubs accounted for 430 copies, or an average of about 20 copies each Club. I am happy to report that the sales by this Club were somewhat above average. Copies are still available at 3/- each. At the moment, the loss on the publication stands at £55.0.0. | ||
+ | |||
+ | === "The Bushwalker' | ||
+ | |||
+ | In spite of the discouraging response to their last effort, the publications Committee is going ahead with the preparation of another Annual. The Treasurer warned the meeting that the fullest support of all Clubs is essential to ensure the success of the forthcoming magazine, otherwise Federation will find itself in financial difficulties. | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Heathcote Primitive Area. === | ||
+ | |||
+ | Locked gates are to be installed to bar entrance to motor vehicles to certain electricity supply access roads. Poison sprays are still being used, but with care, by the Electricity Commission to destroy vegetation under the power lines crossing the reserve. Access by the Water Board' | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Blue Mountains National Park. === | ||
+ | |||
+ | It was announced that Paul Barnes has been elected to the Trust. A full time ranger has been appointed and a second appointment is contemplated. One ranger will be stationed at Mt. Victoria and the other at Woodford. A motor road has been constructed to Mt. Banks (Mt. King George) and picnic facilities provided. | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Kanangra-Boyd National Park. === | ||
+ | |||
+ | Is now under the control of a Trust. | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | === Song Book. === | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Kameruka Club and the Hobnails Club are jointly producing a Song Book. It is proposed to donate the proceeds to Federation (S & R Funds) when production costs have been met. Full support for the publication is requested from all affiliated Clubs. | ||
+ | |||
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+ | |||
+ | ===== Hilma Stoddart - Obituary. ===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | D.I. | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Club lost an esteemed member with the sudden death of Hilda Stoddart on 5th August, 1962 at the age of 76. | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | She was interested in all conservation activities and was a tireless worker in that cause. As practical evidence Hilda was our representative at the meetings of the Parks and Playgrounds Movement. She was also a keen member of the National Park Association and the Stoney Range Flora Reserve at Dee Why. | ||
+ | |||
+ | As a resident of the Manly District for many years Stoddie loved the Pittwater section of Kuringai Chase. At wild flower time every year she took Club walks, Church groups and other interested parties over to Lovett and Fowler' | ||
+ | |||
+ | In recent years the well made tracks have become overgrown, mainly through lack of use. Stoddie wrote to the Trust and to this Club suggesting a working bee to clear them up. John White organised the party and a lot of good work was done at Lovett Bay. It is to be hoped that the work will be continued and completed as a tribute to Stoddie' | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | === By Popular Request... === | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Magazine will reprint, in 2 parts, "First Perambulator to Kanangra Tops - January-February 1931" bu Miles Dunphy. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Commencing in the October Issue. | ||
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