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- | Observer 2. | + | ===April 1969.=== |
- | Commentator 5 | + | |
- | Trains & Names - Jim Brown 7. | + | =====Contents.===== |
- | The Four Footed | + | |
- | Tarots | + | | | |Page| |
- | The 1969 Annual General Meeting | + | |Observer| | 2| |
- | Paddy' | + | |Commentator| | 5| |
- | Impressions | + | |Trains & Names|Jim Brown| 7| |
- | Mountain Equipment Ad. 19. | + | |The Four Footed |
+ | |Taro' | ||
+ | |The 1969 Annual General Meeting|Jim Brown|12| | ||
+ | |Impressions|An Outsider|16| | ||
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+ | =====Advertisements.===== | ||
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+ | |Paddy' | ||
+ | |Mountain Equipment|19| | ||
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+ | A monthly bulletin,of matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, Northcote Buildings, Reiby Place, Circular Quay, Sydney. Postal Address: Box 4476, G.P.O., Sydney. | ||
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+ | |**Editor**|Bill Gillam, 19 Old Bush Road, Engadine, 2233| | ||
+ | |**Business Manager**|Bill Burke, Coral Tree Drive, Carlingford, | ||
+ | |**Typist**|Christa Younger, 71 Yarran Road, Oatley, 2223| | ||
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+ | =====Observer.===== | ||
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+ | (The social science known as anthropology takes as its method the watching, spying on of primitive people, reporting on their ceremonies, how they hold their babies, their ritual and their drink. This is a different approach to the " | ||
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+ | All people have rituals and in all ritual there must be a specific place, a sacred grove. The English crown their kings on a chair cover - a stone dragged from Scotland, some say pinched; the seat is of Irish oak which has caused at least one candidate to have second thoughts about sitting there. The Bushies are content to go to the same place at the appointed time, light a big fire and hang artifacts of bone around the neck of the chosen leader. Thus installed the new man says a few words, his followers drink cocoa to mark the occasion after which most retire leaving a few of the elders to pass the revered bowl and tend the sacred fire until damper cooking the following day. As long as it is held at the one place variation in time and place of this apparently loosely structured pattern will send the tribe into frantic soul searching and misgiving. | ||
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+ | Your cunning observer knew that the ceremony is always held during the wettest time of the year so he arranged to leave his home after tea, thus being assured of that meal, and to arrive when the fire had been lit and the ceremony about to take place. True to his past experience it rained mightily at the time of the evening meal. The track to the creek was at its normal stage of savage slipperiness. The members of the tribe were using the fire to dry out their clothes and bones and at first glance were distributed in random fashion - old members with new, children bearded ones with non-beards or recently de-bearded, visitors, non-members and even some from a different nation otherwise known as a Scoop of Trouts. | ||
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+ | The sole remaining baritone baritone was leading a chant remembered from the distant migration from a colder, more rigorous, less langorous land where there was still a tradition of fist fighting and horseracing, | ||
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+ | I was told that one of the members had sung to a guitar before I arrived, this being the first time in recent memory that it had occurred. Desultory attempts were made to keep the singing going, some knew a few of the words, others the bones of the rhythm. This is a universal thing. My own society having lost the ability to write and sing motets now listen to machine sounds. | ||
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+ | When the singing ceased there was a pause until the next shower when it is traditional to install the new leader. A leader " | ||
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+ | The shuffling line formed up for cocoa, well lit and available and sugar, poorly lit and hidden. The children went to bed; if they slept the elders returned. Those with larger children recounted how their children, magically, were now bigger than they were and were rebellious and would not come to the ceremony, or were bigger and came and competed with their elders and so were just as much a problem. The elder elders told tales to the less elder elders as they brought out and circulated the bowl; the essence rather than the substance of the reunion. Sips from the bowl were hurriedly given to those who had to carry sleeping children up the hill so that the sleeping children could play football on the morrow, after the elders had marked out the pitch. (The decline in the bullfight and the subsequent decline in the sense of honour and well being among the Spaniards has been attributed to the erosion caused by El Futebal.) | ||
- | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bushwalkers, | ||
- | EDITOR: Bill Gillam, 19 Old Bush Rd. Engadine.2233 BUSINESS MANAGER: Bill Burke,Coral Tree Drive, Carlingford 2118. | ||
- | TYPIST: Christa Younger, 71 Yarran Rd. Oatley.2223. | ||
- | 2. The S:,(:ney Busualker April, | ||
- | OBSF,RV7R. | ||
- | (The soci.' | ||
- | as its method the watching, spying on of primitive people, reporting on their ceremonies, how they hold their babies, their ritual and their drink. This is a different approach to the nrat-people-i who apply a scanty knowledge of human behaviour to devisin-, puzzles for rodents. Your Observer couldn' | ||
- | All people have rituals and in all ritual there must be a specific place, a sacred grove. The English crown their kings on a chair cover - a stone dragEed fror Scotland, some say pinched the seat is of Irish oak which has caused at least one candidate to have second thoughts about sitting there. The Busllies are content to go to the same place at the appointee' | ||
- | the new man says a feu words, his followers drink cocoa to | ||
- | mark the occasion after which most retire leaving a fey of the elders to pass the revered bowl and tend the sacred fire until demper Cooking the following day. As long as it is held at the one Place variation in time and -Place of this apparently loosely structured pattern will send the tribe into frantic soul searching and misgiving. | ||
- | Your cunning observer knew that the ceremony is | ||
- | always held during the wettest time of the year so ho arranged to leave his home after tea, thus being assured | ||
- | of that meal, and to arrive when the fire had been lit and | ||
- | the ceremony about to take place. True to his past experience it rained mightily at the time of the evening meal. The track to the creek was at its normal stage of savage slipperiness. The members of the tribe were using the fire to dry out their clothes and bones and at first glance were distributed in random fashion - old members with new, children bearded ones with non-beards or recently de-bearded, visitors, | ||
- | non-merlbers and even some from a different nation otherwise | ||
- | known as a Scoop of Trel:ts. | ||
- | 'he sole remaining baritone baritone was leading | ||
- | a chant remembered from the distant migration from a colder, | ||
- | more rigorous, less langorous land where there was still a tradition of fist fighting and horseracing, | ||
- | that the traditional drink was something stronger than cocoa. | ||
- | The Sydney Bushualker.April, | ||
- | I wasP told that one of the members had sung to a guitar before I arrived, this being the first time in recent memory that it had occurred. Desultory attempts were made to keep the singing going, some knew a few of the words, | ||
- | others the bones of the rhythm. This is a universal thing. | ||
- | My own society having lost the ability to write and sing motets now listen to machine sounds. | ||
- | When the singing ceased there was a pause until the next shower when it is traditional to install the new leader. A leader " | ||
- | sleep. It rained, the fire smoked, the former leaders lined up with the carved bones and they were passed on for one | ||
- | more year. I say passed for the strings, always adequate be- | ||
- | fore would not pass completely over the new leader t head. | ||
- | It was too large or too hairy or its great thickness coincided with his nose. From his ear a boot pendant, from his nose | ||
- | a flower. In another society it would have been an omen of | ||
- | a breakdown in public relations. For those who could see through the smoke it was merely another sign of The Changing | ||
- | of the Tines. They had elected the first Flower Child Leader. | ||
- | The shuffling line formed up for cocoa, well lit and | ||
- | available and sugar, poorly lit and hidden. The children went to bed; if they slept the elders returned. Those with larger children recounted how their children, magically, | ||
- | were now bigger than they were and were rebellious and | ||
- | would not come to the ceremony, or were bigger and came and | ||
- | competed with their elders and so were just as much a problem. The elder elders told tales to the less | ||
- | elder elders as they brought out and circulated the bowl; the essence rather than the substance of the reunion. Sips | ||
- | from the bowl were hurriedly given to those who had to carry | ||
- | sleeping children up the hill so that the sleeping children | ||
- | could play football on the morrow, after the elders had | ||
- | marked out the pitch. (The decline in the bullfight and | ||
- | the subsequent decline in the sense of honour and well be- | ||
- | ing among the Spaniards has been attributed to the erosion caused by El Futebal.) | ||
Midnight came and went. The elder elders talked on. Rain came, rain stopped. The fire burned brightly and steadily on. Before dawn the bowl ran dry. My wife, who is incurably suspicious of the native women, insisted I leave. An elder elder sat wondering where he had put his tent so many hours earlier. There were two people, one with the full beard of tribal custom, guarding the sacred fire. All due ceremony had been kept. | Midnight came and went. The elder elders talked on. Rain came, rain stopped. The fire burned brightly and steadily on. Before dawn the bowl ran dry. My wife, who is incurably suspicious of the native women, insisted I leave. An elder elder sat wondering where he had put his tent so many hours earlier. There were two people, one with the full beard of tribal custom, guarding the sacred fire. All due ceremony had been kept. | ||
- | After the bowl, when the sun had long been up, it | + | |
- | The Sydney Bushwalker. April, | + | After the bowl, when the sun had long been up, it is customary to take of thick coffee and thin toast, and then to tour. One tours in the cold light of day to see how well preserved, or otherwise everyone is, to see whose children have grown predicting from the dietary habits, long remembered, of the parents. The children and the elders gather for the comic races in which everyone wins a prize. In one tent a woman is preparing a damper. Time for me to go. I haven' |
- | is customary to take of thick coffee and thin toast, and then to tour. One tours in the cold light of day to see how well preserved, or otherwise everyone is, to see' | + | |
Stopping for breath halfway up the hill the first lines of a poem cane to me: | Stopping for breath halfway up the hill the first lines of a poem cane to me: | ||
- | "Tl-te cruel girls we loved are over forty...." | + | |
+ | "The cruel girls we loved are over forty...." | ||
Some day I will look up the complete poem. | Some day I will look up the complete poem. | ||
- | 5. The Sydney Bushwalker. Apri1, | + | |
- | ......+ -......inrawilwala.m.i......m.-.0=,W | + | ---- |
- | COIEENTATOR. | + | |
- | It seemed as though the Era Trust Fund had always been there. They never grew while possible land grew dearer and dearer relative to the fund. And that possible land seemed to be so far away as to make any Proposition | + | =====Commentator.===== |
- | What does the trust deed require? Generally it speaks of conservation, | + | |
- | concepts. The purchase of the land certainly meets the | + | It seemed as though the Era Trust Fund had always been there. They never grew while possible land grew dearer and dearer relative to the fund. And that possible land seemed to be so far away as to make any proposition |
- | requirements of the deed. Our administration of the land is going to be another matter. For the first tire we are | + | |
- | to meet, as ,a club, the problems of the statutory public things. Land rates - a charge on club revenue? Pasture | + | What does the trust deed require? Generally it speaks of conservation, |
- | protection - do we shoot the rabbits, who has set a | + | |
- | rabbit trap lately? Blackberries, | + | And what of the land itself. A " |
- | -land has been used for farming and grazing. Ungrazed there will be a botanist' | + | |
- | And what of the land itself. A " | + | Reafforestation - the word seems like a double positive - would seem to be one of the first schemes to investigate. The land is of so many different levels, almost completely denuded of green trees. The casurinas along the river will go when the dam is finished - the replacement trees should go in soon. Grove trees to give areas with the atmosphere |
- | visitors. We cannot hope to distinguish between wheeled | + | |
- | conservationists and wheeled picnickers. Access through | + | The dam itself would create many visitors passing the land. This is at once a threat to overuse the area if some selection |
- | the Friends land could discourage random picnickers. Access through the Friends land could discourage random visitors but not " | + | |
- | one who had walked there could camp. If someone puts up a | + | For the moment some sort of "town plan" needs to be made - selection of permanent |
- | tent and stays there for six weeks do we merely, | + | |
- | rates, mend the fences and build a double brick toilet for him. Do we build a toilet? Do we encourage people to camp, to re-une there. A continuously camped area, a virgin | + | |
- | area, mown grass. By-laws or pleasant anarchy. Reafforestation - the word seems like a double | + | |
- | positive - would seem to be one of the first schemes to | + | |
- | investigate. The land is of so many different levels, almost completely denuded of green trees. The casurinas along the river will go when the dam is finished - the | + | |
- | replacement trees should go in soon. Grove trees to give | + | |
- | 6. The Sydney Bushwalker. April, | + | |
- | srdas with the ntmosphere | + | |
- | growing trees would provide "thlnings" when the present ringbarked trees are burnt for fuel. Deliberate recreation of a rain forest with cedars, syncarpias, | + | |
- | and sassafras would not be too difficult. A comprehensive "small plant"iL, comprehensive in that all native plants could be tried - would be very real conservation. | + | |
- | The dam itself would create many visitors passing the 7and. This is at once a threat to overuse the area | + | |
- | if some sction | + | |
- | land and a chance to show some deliberately planned | + | |
- | servation | + | |
- | For the moment some sort of "town plan" needs to | + | |
- | be made - selection of permannt | + | |
- | conditions would be a part of the "town plan". | + | |
When the plan has been accepted a " | When the plan has been accepted a " | ||
- | Page 7 The Sydney Bushwalker. Apri1, | + | |
- | Trairrs_5=d_anes. | + | ---- |
- | Jini Brown. | + | |
- | An open letter to Kathhackay | + | =====Trains and names.===== |
- | Yes, Kath, I think you have something. Myself, I deplore exotic | + | |
- | Just the same I rather like the idea of naming trains and locomotives - provided the names are not those of current politicians or Governors. I don't mind the names of early pioneers or explorers: the suspect " | + | Jim Brown. |
- | Named trains also pass. The erstwhile Federal City Express (Sydney-Canberra) | + | |
- | (Sydney-Goulburn) sounded good to me. Although the Caves | + | (An open letter to Kath Mackay |
- | Express | + | |
- | Caves, it certainly qualified as " | + | Yes, Kath, I think you have something. Myself, I deplore exotic |
- | time when the Cooma nail (all stops after CP' | + | |
- | loosely styled " | + | Just the same I rather like the idea of naming trains and locomotives - provided the names are not those of current politicians or Governors. I don't mind the names of early pioneers or explorers: the suspect " |
- | Way back in the war years the Western Australian | + | |
- | 20.2.43 Clare-nont-Nornam | + | Named trains also pass. The erstwhile Federal City Express (Sydney-Canberra) |
- | 4-6-2 | + | |
- | 12.9.43 Perth-CI: | + | Way back in the war years the Western Australian |
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+ | 20.2.43 Clare-Northam | ||
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+ | 12.9.43 Perth-Chidlows | ||
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+ | 15.9.43 Southern Cross-Kalgoorlie No. 140 (Blackwood) 4-6-2 | ||
So far as our mother State is concerned, I think there have been four only named locomotives, | So far as our mother State is concerned, I think there have been four only named locomotives, | ||
- | These four were " | + | |
- | (Nos 3608 and 3609 of the 4-6-0 " | + | These four were " |
- | All four names appealed to me. Unfortunately, | + | |
- | Page 8 The Sydney Bushvalker. April, | + | All four names appealed to me. Unfortunately, |
- | Flyer, and " | + | |
This seemed all wrong to me and I was quite glad when the name plates disappeared. I believe one rail enthusiast has acquired a " | This seemed all wrong to me and I was quite glad when the name plates disappeared. I believe one rail enthusiast has acquired a " | ||
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Both " | Both " | ||
- | If our71ocals | + | |
+ | If our locals | ||
But please, not Sir George Throgmorton or Dame Z - well, you know. | But please, not Sir George Throgmorton or Dame Z - well, you know. | ||
- | Anyway, | + | |
+ | Anyway, | ||
Kind regards and happy travelling. | Kind regards and happy travelling. | ||
- | Tho Mydftay RumbwalUdiv 4PPILL $060 | + | |
- | The Four | + | ---- |
- | For the walk on 8/9 March one car arrived at Carrington Falls at 11 p.m. on the Friday, one at 12.45 a.m. on the Satrrday, one J, | + | |
+ | =====The Four | ||
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+ | Pat Harrison. | ||
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+ | For the walk on 8/9 March one car arrived at Carrington Falls at 11 p.m. on the Friday, one at 12.45 a.m. on the Saturday, one about 7 a.m. and the last about 8 a.m. | ||
After a dewy moonlight night 15 walkers set out on a clear morning after safely putting the cars out of reach of the picnickers who frequent the Carrington Falls area. | After a dewy moonlight night 15 walkers set out on a clear morning after safely putting the cars out of reach of the picnickers who frequent the Carrington Falls area. | ||
- | The party went down the Mystery Track to the 'Kangaroo | + | |
- | stern and his beard so red and bristling that the offenders quailed before his eye and the pack was quickly produced. | + | The party went down the Mystery Track to the Kangaroo River and there was only one minor incident at the start of the track when Frank Rigby' |
- | The track is old but still very evident, for a lot of hard work once went into the cutting of the steps in the rock. Someone has recently placed aluminium markers on the trees as a help in locating the track. The route goes down a cool, mossy gully, the floor of which at the time we went down was thickly carpeted | + | |
- | The Kangaroo River was reached not far upstream from the pronounced bend made by its junction with Dtharaual Creek. The bed of the river is chc :ea with boulders and shelves of rock, the latter showing up nicely with a tablecloth of star-shaped | + | The track is old but still very evident, for a lot of hard work once went into the cutting of the steps in the rock. Someone has recently placed aluminium markers on the trees as a help in locating the track. The route goes down a cool, mossy gully, the floor of which at the time we went down was thickly carpeted |
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+ | The Kangaroo River was reached not far upstream from the pronounced bend made by its junction with Dtharaual Creek. The bed of the river is choked | ||
"Only about a mile" he said (everybody else was too lethargic to look at a map), and the party set out with great dash across, around, and over the gibbers; but an hour and a half later only 7 had reached the foot of the falls and the others had fallen along the way. The boulders were not as big as houses (to use Marion Lloyd' | "Only about a mile" he said (everybody else was too lethargic to look at a map), and the party set out with great dash across, around, and over the gibbers; but an hour and a half later only 7 had reached the foot of the falls and the others had fallen along the way. The boulders were not as big as houses (to use Marion Lloyd' | ||
- | From the foot of the Falls Doone Wyborn and | ||
- | Gerry Sinzig performed the hairy feat of climbing up the side and waving to us from the top; | ||
- | Back to the rest of the party for lunch, and thereafter the afternoon was a rock hop for about three hours | ||
- | 10. The Sydney Bushualker. Apri1, | ||
- | Nommar- | ||
- | and it would have been pleasant enough but for the fact that the boulders and shelves of rock had no colour in them and the cliffs were the same uninspiring colour. We eventually came upon an old road where we killed a large, cranky-looking brown snake which Doctor Wyborn dissected with the aid of a stone axe. | ||
- | The scenery was getting better, Red Cedar trees lined the track, grassy flats flitted by under our swift feet, and Bill Gillam pulled the greatest confidence trick of all time by persuading us we were where we weren' | ||
- | But it was a good campsite and after the washing up had been done the singers did a good job for several hours. | ||
- | As we went down the valley on Sunday morning it opened out into lush green fields of pasture, dotted here and there with contented cows that gave us the usual close | ||
- | scrutiny. Near Gerringong Creek there is a suspension bridge | ||
- | upon which a lot of energy was worked off before regaining it by tucking into the nearby blackberry bushes. | ||
- | We crossed Gerringong Creek at the fordat 615164 | ||
- | and soon afterwards went up a road that for steepness would take some beating. We walked through beautiful country with ever-increasing views of the Kangaroo Valley until we | ||
- | came to an old slab house at 634166. It is only used for storing hay now, but it is still a wonderful example of bush carpentry, made of solid slabs ahaped by the adze and as | ||
- | stout and upright today as the day it was built. We went up over the ploughed shelf of land between the house and the timber at the bottom of the cliffs, walked through the growing cornfield, and got up on to the plateau at the saddle at 644163. | ||
- | Where we left the corn paddock there was a large spreading Red Cedar growing by itself, and a little distance away at the bottom of the timber line there were several fine large specimens of Gully Ash. There was also an old track up to the saddle, faint at the bottom but verypronounced where it reaches the saddle. | ||
- | The 2064 foot feature is a grassy dome, and it was just beyond here that we encountered four ponies. One of them was a young colt and another was its apparent mother, already heavy with the next addition to the family. This mare was very tame and very friendly and she came up and alloyed us to rub her nose, and she unhesitatingly accepted the biscuits we gave her - so much so that someone described her as The Four Footed Finch. When the supply of biscuits gave out she began to nuzzle into the packs and was becoming a bit of a lovable nuisance so we set off at high speed for our luncheon spot at Gerringong Falls. These falls are very higt and very beautiful. I suppose they must be about 500 | ||
- | The Sydney Bushwalker. Apri1, | ||
- | feet high. | + | From the foot of the Falls Doone Wyborn and Gerry Sinzig performed the hairy feat of climbing up the side and waving to us from the top. |
- | Two hours for lunch, a good swim in an excellent pool, more Finchian activities (He's done it again" | + | |
- | were concealed, and we were back at Carrington Falls at 3.30 p.m. | + | Back to the rest of the party for lunch, |
- | The plateau around Gerringong Falls has been badly burnt out, but as it is flat and open it looked very attractive with the contrast between | + | |
- | 7ARO'D 7,7CILYPT. | + | The scenery |
- | Over fifty years am I - tall and free Yet young, as Nature sees age. | + | |
- | Taro it was who planted me, | + | As we went down the valley on Sunday morning it opened |
- | Taro the sage. | + | |
- | Nigh ninety now is he; as Man deems, old -- Yet his thoughts go soaring out | + | We crossed Gerringong Creek at the ford at 615164 |
- | Untrammelled | + | |
- | " | + | Where we left the corn paddock there was a large spreading Red Cedar growing by itself, |
- | When fifty years more ha vs com and are 7,,ast Like Taro the Nan, himself, | + | |
- | This eucalypt will stand fast., | + | The 2064 foot feature is a grassy dome, and it was just beyond here that we encountered four ponies. One of them was a young colt and another was its apparent mother, already heavy with the next addition |
- | Taro! What wealthl | + | |
- | Footnote: | + | Two hours for lunch, a good swim in an excellent pool, more Finchian activities ("He's done it again" |
- | _ 7 | + | |
- | two young grand-daughters, | + | |
- | Editor' | + | |
- | 12. The Sydney Bushwalker. Apri171969. | + | |
- | Tlig_12621,ELTIPZ2 GENERAL MEETING. | + | |
- | It was a gathering | + | |
- | the year, and got under weigh about 7.1+5: several apologies | + | |
- | from those who customarily attend, but no new members to welcome, so it was straight into the February minutes. Arising from these, Dot Butler reported that funds available for the Kangaroo Valley | + | |
- | Gordon Redmond foreshadowed a later motion affecting this issue. | + | |
- | Correspondence (Inward) included a cppy of the Constitution for the Australian Conservation Foundation: a report of further activity, including advance news of a meeting on 24th March, by the Oolong Committee: from Maurice Berry, re- | + | |
- | tiring as a Trustee, and suggesting younger appointees; from Ken Ellis for non-active membership and from Christa Younger | + | |
- | seeking transfer back to " | + | |
- | Correspondence (outward) included a letter of appreciation sent to Brian Harvey who had supplied the ArchiVist with copies of some walks programmes missing from the Club's records. | + | |
- | At this stage a suspension | + | |
- | Quite late in the meeting, with electioneering | + | |
- | 11 The Sydney Bushwalker. April, 1969. | + | |
- | feet | + | |
- | Two hours for lunch, a good swim in an excellent pool, more Finchian activities (He's done it again" | + | |
- | were concealed, and we were back at Carrington Falls at 3.30 p.m. | + | |
The plateau around Gerringong Falls has been badly burnt out, but as it is flat and open it looked very attractive with the contrast between the blackened tree trunks and the fresh green grass. | The plateau around Gerringong Falls has been badly burnt out, but as it is flat and open it looked very attractive with the contrast between the blackened tree trunks and the fresh green grass. | ||
- | TARO 'B EUCALYPT. | + | |
- | Over fifty years am I - tall and free Yet young, as Nature sees age. | + | ---- |
- | Taro it was who planted me, | + | |
+ | =====Taro's Eucalypt.===== | ||
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+ | Over fifty years am I - tall and free\\ | ||
+ | Yet young, as Nature sees age.\\ | ||
+ | Taro it was who planted me,\\ | ||
Taro the sage. | Taro the sage. | ||
- | Nigh ninety now is he; as Man deems, old -- Yet his thoughts go soaring out | + | |
- | Untrammelled by years, eager, bold! | + | Nigh ninety now is he; as Man deems, old --\\ |
- | "T230" they shout.. | + | Yet his thoughts go soaring out\\ |
- | When fifty years more have come and are past Like Taro the Man, himself, | + | Untrammelled by years, eager, bold!\\ |
- | This eucalypt will stand fast.., | + | "TARO" they shout. |
- | Taro! What wealth! | + | |
- | Footnote: The writer of this, Esme Biddulph, together with two young grand-daughters, | + | When fifty years more have come and are past\\ |
- | Editor' | + | Like Taro the Man, himself,\\ |
- | 12, The Sydney Bushwalker. Apri1, | + | This eucalypt will stand fast...\\ |
- | The 1969 ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. | + | Taro! What wealth! |
- | It was a gathering of modest size for the big business of the year, and got under weigh about 7.45: several apologies from those who customarily attend, but no- . new members to welcome, so it was straight into the February minutes. Arising from these, Dot Butler reported that funds available for the Kangaroo Valley land now amounted to almost $2,500, including the %1,550 from the Era funds. This would be sufficient for the purchase of one block, but two blocks (90 acres) would be secured if we could raise 04,120. Gordon Redmond foreshadowed a later notion | + | |
- | Correspondence (Inward) included a cppy of the Constitution for the Australian Conservation Foundation: a report of further activity, including advance news of a meeting on 24th March, by the Oolong | + | __Footnote__: The writer of this, Esme Biddulph, together with two young grand-daughters, |
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+ | Editor' | ||
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+ | =====The 1969 Annual General Meeting.===== | ||
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+ | It was a gathering of modest size for the big business of the year, and got under weigh about 7.45: several apologies from those who customarily attend, but no new members to welcome, so it was straight into the February minutes. Arising from these, Dot Butler reported that funds available for the Kangaroo Valley land now amounted to almost $2,500, including the $1,550 from the Era funds. This would be sufficient for the purchase of one block, but two blocks (90 acres) would be secured if we could raise $4,120. Gordon Redmond foreshadowed a later motion | ||
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+ | Correspondence (Inward) included a copy of the Constitution for the Australian Conservation Foundation: a report of further activity, including advance news of a meeting on 24th March, by the Colong | ||
Correspondence (outward) included a letter of appreciation sent to Brian Harvey who had supplied the Archivist with copies of some walks programmes missing from the Club's records. | Correspondence (outward) included a letter of appreciation sent to Brian Harvey who had supplied the Archivist with copies of some walks programmes missing from the Club's records. | ||
- | At this stage a suspension of standing orders was carried to allow election of Club officers to take place during the transaction of other business. Scrutineers were appointed and Edna Gentle took up her customary post as " | + | |
- | Quite late in the meeting, with electioneering at an end, the Annual Report was adopted, followed by the Annual Financial Statement. This was promptly followed by the | + | At this stage a suspension of standing orders was carried to allow election of Club officers to take place during the transaction of other business. Scrutineers were appointed and Edna Gentle took up her customary post as " |
- | The Sydney Bushwalker April, | + | |
- | Annual Argument (subscriptions up, down or same). The retiring Treasurer moved for an increase of 50c in all categories of membership, the main reasoning being that the magazine account, on the basis of $1.50 per subscription, | + | Quite late in the meeting, with electioneering at an end, the Annual Report was adopted, followed by the Annual Financial Statement. This was promptly followed by the Annual Argument (subscriptions up, down or same). The retiring Treasurer moved for an increase of 50c in all categories of membership, the main reasoning being that the magazine account, on the basis of $1.50 per subscription, |
- | This produced lengthy debate, in which it was argued that if the overall result was satisfactory, | + | |
+ | This produced lengthy debate, in which it was argued that if the overall result was satisfactory, | ||
Owing to the lateness of the hour it was agreed that the routine reports be presented at the next general meeting, with the exception of the financial report for February which showed a trading balance of $532. | Owing to the lateness of the hour it was agreed that the routine reports be presented at the next general meeting, with the exception of the financial report for February which showed a trading balance of $532. | ||
- | In General Business, Gordon Redmond moved that $1,000 of the Club's funds in Bonds be contributed to the purchase of the Kangaroo Valley land. Supporting this, Dot Butler said if we acquired the two blocks (90 acres) valued at about $5,000 for a figure in the vicinity of V4,100, we should have the option of obtaining further Crown land at a nominal figure in a few years. If subsequently it were desired to sell, or if the land were resumed in connection with later stages of the Kangaroo-Shoalhaven | + | |
- | one | + | In General Business, Gordon Redmond moved that $1,000 of the Club's funds in Bonds be contributed to the purchase of the Kangaroo Valley land. Supporting this, Dot Butler said if we acquired the two blocks (90 acres) valued at about $5,000 for a figure in the vicinity of $4,100, we should have the option of obtaining further Crown land at a nominal figure in a few years. If subsequently it were desired to sell, or if the land were resumed in connection with later stages of the Kangaroo-Shoalhaven |
- | Frank Lshdown | + | |
- | Time of occupation of the Clubroom had now expired so completion of the remaining business was adjourned to the date of the April General Meeting. Phil Butt voiced appreciation of Frank Rigby' | + | Frank Ashdown |
- | and the things achieved, | + | |
- | 14. The Sydney Bushwalker. April, 1969. | + | Time of occupation of the Clubroom had now expired so completion of the remaining business was adjourned to the date of the April General Meeting. Phil Butt voiced appreciation of Frank Rigby' |
- | LIST OF OFFICERS ETC. | + | |
- | President Don Finch | + | ---- |
- | Vice-Presidents (1) Phil Butt (2) Jack Gentle | + | |
- | Secretary Sheila Binns | + | =====List of Officers, etc.===== |
- | Asst Secretary To be appointed | + | |
- | Treasurer Jim Vatiliotis | + | |President|Don Finch| |
- | Walks Sec. Dorothy Noble | + | |Vice-Presidents|(1) Phil Butt (2) Jack Gentle| |
- | Social Sec. Marcia Shappert | + | |Secretary|Sheila Binns| |
- | Membership Sec. Rolf Janssen | + | |Asst Secretary|To be appointed| |
- | Conservation Alex Colley (subject to his acceptance) | + | |Treasurer|Jim Vatiliotis| |
- | Comnittee Ladies (1) Marion Lloyd | + | |Walks Sec.|Dorothy Noble| |
- | (to be elected) | + | |Social Sec.|Marcia Shappert| |
- | Men (1) Wilf Hilder | + | |Membership Sec.|Rolf Janssen| |
- | (2) Jim Calloway | + | |Conservation|Alex Colley (subject to his acceptance)| |
- | Lierary | + | |Committee|Ladies (1) Marion Lloyd (to be elected) Men (1) Wilf Hilder (2) Jim Calloway| |
- | Mag. Bus. Manager Bill Burke | + | |Literary |
- | Mag.Sales & Circ. To be appointed | + | |Mag. Bus. Manager|Bill Burke| |
- | Federation Delegates (1) Alan Round, V2) Barry Pacey | + | |Mag.Sales & Circ.|To be appointed| |
- | (3) Don Read (4) to be appnted | + | |Federation Delegates|(1) Alan Round (2) Barry Pacey (3) Don Read (4) to be appointed| |
- | Rigby | + | |Substitute Delegates|(1) Jim Calloway (2) Joan Rigby| |
- | Keeper Maps & Timetables Doone Wyborn | + | |Keeper Maps & Timetables|Doone Wyborn| |
- | Archivist Joan Rigby | + | |Archivist|Joan Rigby| |
- | Equipment Hire (1) Ramon U/Brien (2) Lawrence | + | |Equipment Hire|(1) Ramon U'Brien (2) Lawrence Quaken| |
- | Quaken | + | |S & R Contacts|(1) Elsie Bruggy (2) Heather White (both subject to their acceptance) (3) Paddy Pallin| |
- | S R Contacts (1) Elsie Bruggy (2!) Heather White (both subject to their acceptance) | + | |Trustees|(1) Heather White (2) Gordon Redmond (3) Bill Burke| |
- | (3) Paddy Pallin | + | |Solicitor|Colin Broad (Hon Member)| |
- | Trustees (1) Heather White (2) Gordon Redmond (3) Bill Burke | + | |Auditor|Nan Bourke| |
- | Solicitor Colin Broad (Hon Member) | + | |Nature Conservation Council Delegates|(1) Phil Hall (2) Wilf Hilder| |
- | Auditor Nan Bourke | + | |Projectionist|Bob Younger| |
- | Nature Conservation Council Delegates | + | |Parks & Playgrounds Delegate|Margaret Child| |
- | (1) Phil Hall (2) Will' | + | |Tracks & Access Delegate|Wilf Hilder| |
- | Parks & Playgrounds Delegate Margaret Child | + | |
- | Tracks & Access Delegate Will' | + | ---- |
- | Through Paddy' | + | |
- | Paddy Pollin | + | =====Paddy Made===== |
- | GO TO PADDY' | + | |
- | AND GET | + | Through Paddy' |
- | PADDYMADE GEAR. | + | |
- | THEY HAVE THE EXPERIENCE. | + | Paddy Pallin |
- | Paddy Pallin Pty. Limited, 109a Bathurst Street, | + | |
- | DY P LLI raft:: Lightweight Camp Gear | + | Good advice to all new members, |
- | 161 Hoer, 10$A nathurst Street, Sydney | + | |
- | 6 | + | Go to Paddy' |
- | 268 | + | |
- | : | + | Paddy Pallin Pty. Limited, 109a Bathurst Street, |
- | - 7 | + | |
- | 16 The Sydney Bushwalker. April, | + | Phone: 26-2685, 26-2686. |
- | IMPRESSIONS. | + | |
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+ | |||
+ | =====Impressions.===== | ||
An Outsider. | An Outsider. | ||
- | Accepting an invitation to"8one along" | + | |
- | This latter | + | Accepting an invitation to "come along" with the Sydney Bushwalkers Club for one of their guided weekend package-tours, |
- | as "the understatement of the year", needs radical readjustment, | + | |
- | Call me n Pommie exaggerator" | + | This latter |
- | " | + | |
- | will, but do remember the proof of the pudding | + | Call me " |
- | The object of our journey was initially to find the Commung, Cowin, Cowmun, Cowmuk (?) river, and then to follow it along its granite section. This having been achieved, we were to return along an approved route to base. | + | |
- | The conducting of the first stage of our trip, how- | + | The object of our journey was initially to __find__ |
- | ever, proved to be the cause of some considerable | + | |
- | embarrassment among the " | + | The conducting of the first stage of our trip, however, proved to be the cause of some considerable embarrassment among the " |
- | Notwithstanding, | + | |
- | The struggle, I may now say, proved to be well worth the effort. | + | Notwithstanding, |
- | 17. The Sydney Bushwalker. April, | + | |
- | In the valley the river of pure crystalline water (apparently the only totally unpolluted river, left in N.S.W.) carves | + | The struggle, I may __now__ |
- | feet into enormous bright blue lakes which have been literally | + | |
- | We travelled down stream for one and a half days covering most of the distance | + | In the valley the river of pure crystalline water (apparently the only totally unpolluted river left in N.S.W.) carves |
- | Waterfalls naturally presented a problem since the valley sides,in most places, rose far too sheerly out of the water to enable us to climb around them. They were, generally, best traversed by means of the common phenomenon known as gravity:- a decidedly easy method during transit, but also rather painful on landing (our packs - still on our backs- had an awkward habit of trying to thrust violently upwards, whilst we were busily engaged in plunging to the deep - surfacing proved to be no problem). Those other cases where it would have been positively foolish to adopt the above- mentioned " | + | |
+ | We travelled down stream for one and a half days covering most of the distance | ||
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+ | Waterfalls naturally presented a problem since the valley sides, in most places, rose far too sheerly out of the water to enable us to climb around them. They were, generally, best traversed by means of the common phenomenon known as gravity:- a decidedly easy method during transit, but also rather painful on landing (our packs - still on our backs - had an awkward habit of trying to thrust violently upwards, whilst we were busily engaged in plunging to the deep - surfacing proved to be no problem). Those other cases where it would have been positively foolish to adopt the above- mentioned " | ||
None of the hazards, however, deserve a mention when compared with the slightest hint of "The Return" | None of the hazards, however, deserve a mention when compared with the slightest hint of "The Return" | ||
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At 2.30 p.m. on Sunday, having eaten the last of our provisions so as to lighten our packs, we turned from the river, and, on the assurance from the party guide that we would be back at our starting point in TWO hours, set off regretfully, | At 2.30 p.m. on Sunday, having eaten the last of our provisions so as to lighten our packs, we turned from the river, and, on the assurance from the party guide that we would be back at our starting point in TWO hours, set off regretfully, | ||
- | At precisely 4.30 p.m., after many dry groans of fatigue, our guide tried to convince us that since6t | + | |
- | At 5.30 p.m. after mumbling something about watches gaining time, and that if we didn't buck up we'd be walking in the dark, he rushed ahead in an obvious attempt to avoid the fury of a thousand (very dry) tongues. In this he was successful, at least until 7 | + | At precisely 4.30 p.m., after many dry groans of fatigue, our guide tried to convince us that since it was nearly 4.30 we should very shortly be arriving back at the starting point, where he was sure we would welcome some form of refreshment. |
- | 18. The Sydney Bushwalker. April, | + | |
- | the light of the moon he again mumbled. This time, however, his sense of guilt obviously forced him to stay and giVe us some form of explanation: | + | At 5.30 p.m. after mumbling something about watches gaining time, and that if we didn't buck up we'd be walking in the dark, he rushed ahead in an obvious attempt to avoid the fury of a thousand (very dry) tongues. In this he was successful, at least until... 7.30 p.m. when by the light of the moon he again mumbled. This time, however, his sense of guilt obviously forced him to stay and give us some form of explanation: |
After the fury of tongues being once more unleashed by the female members of the party, this is indeed exactly what we did. | After the fury of tongues being once more unleashed by the female members of the party, this is indeed exactly what we did. | ||
- | One long hour later, after having stumbled through some of the thickest scrub, two of the women were violently sick l This, in face of the fact that we had been walking almost continuously for fifteen hours, was not surprising, and the seriousness of our predicament now became blatantly obvious even to the more high spirited members of the group. We resolved that it would be a far better idea to allow our ;.uide and another bush hardened member to go on ahead, whilst we would stay put and wait hopefully. | ||
- | Now to bring a dramatic tale to a rather undramatic close; within fifteen minutes a bounding "bush hardened member" | ||
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+ | One long hour later, after having stumbled through some of the thickest scrub, two of the women were violently sick! This, in face of the fact that we had been walking almost continuously for fifteen hours, was not surprising, and the seriousness of our predicament now became blatantly obvious even to the more high spirited members of the group. We resolved that it would be a far better idea to allow our guide and another bush hardened member to go on ahead, whilst we would stay put and wait hopefully. | ||
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+ | Now to bring a dramatic tale to a rather undramatic close; within fifteen minutes a bounding "bush hardened member" | ||
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+ | ====Skiing News:==== | ||
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+ | It is only ten weeks, or thereabouts, | ||
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