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+ | A Monthly Bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bushwalkers, | ||
+ | AUSTRALIA. | ||
+ | 22121E2_1212. | ||
+ | TYPIST: Lesley Page | ||
+ | BUSINESS MANAGER: Don Finch, 6 Royce Ave., CROYDON. OFFICE BOY: Owen Marks, 68 Hastings Pde., BONDI. | ||
+ | IN THIS ISSUE | ||
+ | Editorial N. Page 2. | ||
+ | The August General Meeting J. Brown 3. | ||
+ | Can Bushwalkers Save the Bush M. Byles 5. | ||
+ | Paddy' | ||
+ | Letters From Colin Putt & Fitzganderpipe 9. | ||
+ | Federation Notes 13. | ||
+ | Mountain Equipment Ad 14. | ||
+ | Mt. Victoria to the Grose River. D. Lawry15. | ||
+ | Coming Walks A. Pike 17. | ||
+ | One More Month Observer19. | ||
+ | Fergy Ad 20. | ||
+ | Socially Speaking 0.Marks 22. | ||
+ | EDITOR: Neville Page, 7/44 West Pde., VEST RYDE. Tel. 2-0223 (B) | ||
+ | Page 2. TIE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER October, | ||
+ | .=1. | ||
+ | By the Editor | ||
+ | vpya,) | ||
+ | **4HC-4He-X--X-***********4H4-X-X-*-X-*-X-X-X************-X-X-***** XXXX k*************-***** | ||
+ | Your Editor this month is full of thanks and apologies: thanks to those people who prepared the September issue of "The Sydney Bushwalker", | ||
+ | IN THIS MAGAZINE : Duo to my being overseas last month, the general meeting reports got a bit mixed uP, and September report was published, pissing out on the August report. Therefore the August report appears in this issue. The report on the October general meeting will appear in next month' | ||
+ | The article by Marie Byles on page 5 deserves your attention and thought, even if you don't agree with the views expressed therein. In fact, if anyone does have something to say about Marie' | ||
+ | Another article worthy of your close examination is Dorothy Lawrt' | ||
+ | THE riEW DUPLICATOR. The Club will be getting a new duplicator for,the magazine, thanks to the agitation of a few interested bushwalkers. So let's now make the most of it, and produce a publication worthy of the | ||
+ | expenditure of $400. Club funds. J., | ||
+ | October, 1970. THE SYDNEY BUSIT, | ||
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+ | -************************** By Jim Brown *********xxx****************** | ||
+ | Five new members were named at the beginning of the proceedings for August. Frances WinwoodSmith, | ||
+ | The Treasurer' | ||
+ | On the second. weekend of July, Pat Harrison was out in the Capertee Valley climbing Crown Mountain, and having a little bother getting through the private land between Glen Davis and. the desired campsite at Running Stream Creek. Barbara Bruce and Marion Lloyd. conducted. a well attended Instructional trip (with 23 prospective members) at Burning Palms, where Heather Williams day walk of 20 people joined, them at lunch time on Sunday. | ||
+ | The third. weekend in the month was the occasion of Morag Ryder' | ||
+ | Pagp 4. MT SYDNEY BUSHWALKER | ||
+ | October, 197L0 | ||
+ | At one stage during the month there had been a Search & Rescue practice; which was reported by Peter Franks: a total of about forty people present, and some trouble with search parties getting themselves rather astrgy. | ||
+ | Federation business showed that the suggested "all States" | ||
+ | Thus to General Business, with iko Short reminding us that the public meeting on pollution of the Parramatta River and environs would be held about two weeks hence. A seminar had recently boon held on the controversial question of controlled burning off of bushland, and views of both sides had been presented, with no real conclusion reached. | ||
+ | Since no one had any axes to grind or hobby horses to ride, we had announcements, | ||
+ | MOTGV,c AflG9 %Mg | ||
+ | Next Magazine collating night is 19tho November at Jim and Kath Brown' | ||
+ | THE TIME: 7.30 p.m. | ||
+ | THE ADDRESS': | ||
+ | For those who wish to contribute to the Club's activities but don't know how, well here it is. Three hours of fun and eating afterwards too. See Owen or give him a call on the telephone (30-1827). | ||
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+ | October, 1970. T Si'1EY BUSHALR Page 5 | ||
+ | ***********-E4e**x XX *9E*M By Marie M Byles ************************ | ||
+ | Some while ago there was a good film on television showing pollution0 It was a very horrifying film0 But how many who saw it remember that the most horrifying part was the commencement, | ||
+ | The film, wont on to shoW -thai; when man was evolved he objected. -to falling in with the natural rhytbm He disliked being part of nature' | ||
+ | The only pleasant thing about the picture,. at least to a former mountaineer, | ||
+ | When our standard. of life was more primitive the result of man's insistence on nature being entirely subject to him, was there none the less, but it was riot obvious; except perhaps when the Romans stripped the Dalma-bion Hills of timber to build ships and left the arid, land which still exists today. However, it was not unil mans presuintuous brains! (as i-b has been called) got busy that it got dangerous. Man invented more and more ingenious ways of subduing nature on a larger and larger scale so that we now see the result more obviouslyQ Therefore the return to a simple life would. only delay matters; it would not prevent the ultimate nemesis. | ||
+ | Page THE SYDNEY BUSIPTALEZR October, | ||
+ | Bushwalkers are demanding. a park, not pines, for Boyd Plateau, and they feel that they are thereby helping to keep the balance between man and mature. And of course We wish them success. | ||
+ | But in asking for a pazqc instead of pines are we doing this because we are considering the needs of eucalypts or because of our pleasure in seeing wild unspoilt nature and the justice of keeping as park what was originally so declared? If we are building or furnishing our new home would we be willing to give up the use of soft woods for which there is a crying demand, the result of a more insistent crying for a higher and yet higher standard of living for an affluent and still more affluent society? | ||
+ | 2 If we decide that it is preferable to breed kangaroos for pet food instead of allowing them to be exterminated by hunters, are we considering the kangaroo or ourselves? | ||
+ | When we require a driveway to our new garage are we thinking of the ne.pds of. limestone. country, or of our own? I do not say that we should not..try:to substitute another area for Colong, But I do say that basically 77: | ||
+ | And now we come to the crucial question. Are bushwalkers one wit less selfish than managers and dividend-seekers of cement companies or of mill-owning companies? Is the man or woman who wants a higher salary any better than the mining company that wants higher dividends by exploiting nature? | ||
+ | Naturally I do not want to lessen the good work of Save Colong | ||
+ | Save the Boyd Plateau. But what I do suggcst is that we ask ourselves whether we are considering the trees and the stalactites as having a being of their own and there for their own sake and not merely for the pleasure of bushwalkers; | ||
+ | All work to prevent pollution is good. And all work to save nature is good. But they are only pinpricks. The A.C.I. company' | ||
+ | --None of these things touch the causet man's deviation from nature' | ||
+ | October 1970. THESYDI1EY BUSHITTAI4MR Page 7. | ||
+ | is greed and. self interest in the human species as distinct from the animals. However, this individuality is coupled with the ability to be conscious that the universe is one undivided whole, the same willtolive running through all, even rocks and stalactites; | ||
+ | The destruction of nature had its origin in the mind, that is, in the thoughts, and it is only in the mind and its thoughts that the cure can be found, that is to say in the reorientation of our thoughts so that we cease asking "Do I want it?" and instead ask "Do I need it?". And so that we cease destroying the least thing, unless like wild animals in Kiplingb Jang.12 Book, we really need to do so. For example, We do not need to swat mosquitoes all night long as I observed a bushwalker doing | ||
+ | " | ||
+ | There is always a middle way. But the asking of those questions in an affluent society is the only solution for the problem of pollution. | ||
+ | People are not going to ask it no not bushwalkers, | ||
+ | moving very quickly these days and the children around. us may very well do so, | ||
+ | " | ||
+ | am not a pessimist, forI think that the wonder of manes evolution is such that he will not perish like the dinosaurs, that remnants of the human species will survive, that after terrible suffering those remnants will learn to seek only what they need and not what they want, and will also learn that giving brings greater happiness than getting; and finally that they will become conscious of the unity of all life It is a very very long range optimism, But I have always been rather prone to longrange plans 1 | ||
+ | And in the meantime let us eat drink and walk in the bush which We cannot save, for tomorrow we die in an ice age or inferno | ||
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+ | THERE ARE ELEVEN 15MINUTE FREE PARKING SPACES OUTSIDE THE DOOR AND SEVERAL 2HOUR METERS ACROSS THE STREET.' | ||
+ | THE SHOP IS LESS THAN FIVE MINUTES FROM KINGS GOULBURN STREET PARKING, BUCKLE HOUSE PARKING AND THE NEW TOWN HALL CAR PARK IN KENT AND SUSSEX STREETS. | ||
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+ | Greetings to everybody: | ||
+ | We are likely to make port in Greenland at last tomorrow or the next day. We've been a long time on the way; the winds in the North Atlantic have been Parsistently N. and W. and thus contrary, but we arrived off Cape Farewell at the beginning of July, to find ourselves cut off from the coast by 25 miles of solid pack-ice. We therefore set off west and north, with the idea of getting round the end of the ice, which comes from the Polar Sea down the East coast, round the tin of Greenland and up the Test coast, where it is sup,;osed to melt. | ||
+ | We followed the ice-edge as far as Frederickshaab, | ||
+ | Today we met a small coasting vessel with a Danish skipper and Eskimo crew. The first Eskimo I've ever seen immediately up with | ||
+ | his big Agfa camera and took a photo of me, apparently saying to himself "' | ||
+ | 15/7/70 | ||
+ | Well, here we are, anchored in Faeringehavn, | ||
+ | - 0. THE SYDEEY BUSH7fALIChR- ' | ||
+ | As.it seems that Julienhaa is inaccessible we must change our plans. There are Some quite good mountains up the fjords from here, which we might look at for a few days anyway, and some really good unclimbed ones in the Dalagars Nunataks, 40 miles or so to the south of us., 7Te must get some more information before we decide. | ||
+ | 29/7/70 | ||
+ | Here we are at Iviktut, at the world' | ||
+ | The Skipper' | ||
+ | The country about Iviktut is very fine, just like a Canterbury (N.Z.) sheep valley such as the Godley or Rakaia, but with fjord water in the bottom instead of valley flats. There are even a few sheep to be ,seen on the slopes. The country rock is mainly gneiss, very sound and solid, and full of huge volcanic dykes, one of which is, of course, responsible for the cryolite mine. This mine is highly mechanised, and about 40 men live and work here in airconditioned luxury. Just now there is a Danish ship in, loading ore, and there is a bustle of activity. The King of Denmark' | ||
+ | 2/8M0 | ||
+ | Tie are now approaching Julienhaab, and if all goes well we should be there tonight. We left Iviktut three days ago, came out of Arsuk fjord into the maze of skerries in Kebbermine bi&b, and then worked our way along through a remarkable series of inland fjords and waterways in the direction of a little known group of mountains to the West of Julienhaab, in the Eredesfjord. Bredesfjord turned out to have a lot of ice in it, both local bergs and old pack ice drifted in from the sea, and yesterday we were finally brought to a | ||
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+ | TEE SIDNEY BUERW-ALIC.42. | ||
+ | Page 11-. | ||
+ | IL | ||
+ | dead sto some ten miles. from the mountains. We could s=.:.e them quite clearly, and as they are not very interesting as a climbing proposition, | ||
+ | Although we still haven' | ||
+ | by talking with the officers of the various Danish ******xxx*x*** | ||
+ | the trip is prong a tremendous experience and ships we meet. | ||
+ | " | ||
+ | By the powers, indeed we are having a very fine trip; I must also say V-at I find Expedition life most agreeable. Life at sea is more or less like this the day is divided into 2hour watches of one man (of course, in the ice, it was two to four man watches). | ||
+ | In the si;: hours between, one repairs chaffed rigging as well as eats, sleeps, reads, ponders or blows one's nose, or stamps up and down to keep warm and fit. The last 146 temperatures were Low 30's and High 20's, sea and air. | ||
+ | After good weather and light winds we arrived off Cape Farewell, southern tip of Greenland, on 3rd July, the ice being 25 miles off shore. Thinking this looked like a good lead we steamed up the west coast, hoping to come into the town of Julienhadb. | ||
+ | We saw some very fine peaks which the skipper knew from a past voyage. Alas and alack, the ice got heavier and thicker, and after nosing in and out we finally followed up a good lead and got stuck. For - eight days we were moor4d to a floc the size of a football field sending of " | ||
+ | Today I shall break in my new boots in the 'hills behind the . town. Tomorrow we. do some -easy climbing at the head of the fjord and then, in the next week or so, as soon as the ice allows we head back dawn the coast by the fabled.'" | ||
+ | Page 12, THE SYDJ.72, | ||
+ | erickshaab glacier. There, about 30 miles inland, lie the Dalagars Nunataks, a selection of very fine peaks of about 9,000' The glacier comes down to the sea, and its terminal face is 15 miles_ wide. It was about there we got stuck and drove up the coast at about half to 1, knots past the tantalizing peaks. (Still, it has warmed up a bit now so we should be babk to them in a few days.) "Sea Breeze" | ||
+ | My boots are a very fine pair, from Lawry' | ||
+ | The coast is beautiful in a stark, hostile manner 3 indeed, at the Seaman' | ||
+ | Icebergs are best viewed from a distanco close up they compress the pack which, although flowing in the same direction, moves much slower on account of their draught and cause considerable pressure build-up. If stuck nearby one begins to wonder just how many billions of tons of ice three men can fend off with ice poles. | ||
+ | It is almost time for coffee, cakes and cigars - how easily one picks up local customs: Putto claims he only smokes on three occasions (last week it was only one) - when caught in Sunday traffic, when moored to an icefloc, or when just freed from an icefloe. | ||
+ | We had hot showers on a Canadian vessel, the Blue Cloud, about 1,500 tons, and also a neat whisky. Every Blue Cloud has. a rusty lining, largely brought about by their central steam heating. | ||
+ | Have just finished another hot showe. By the powers it was very good: 7e gave up deck bucket baths two weeks ago. | ||
+ | Our arrival here caused something of a sensation. Telegrams from various people have arrived concratulating us on our passage through the ice, and indeed we could have been the extinct great auk itself to judge by the crowd at the wharf on our arrival. Perhaps they expected us to tie up and then sink at our moorings. | ||
+ | October | ||
+ | On return to England I will stay two or three weeks at Lymington fixing up the boat, then will ;set a bicycle and ride up to London via Cornwall, Landsend, Exmore, Tales, Peak District and Oxford for a quick look, then home by October and to work work work, probably in Sydney. | ||
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+ | THE SEPTEMBER MEETING | ||
+ | The minutes of the previous meeting were read and received. The correspondence, | ||
+ | The S.& R Report was given by Nin Melville. Nin stated that those who were willing to attend S & R rescues should indicate to their Federation representative their willingness to do so as Federation requires a list of all such members so that they can be insured against injury as each member must be insured individually. Attempts are still being made to gain a subsidy for insurance from the Government. A portable typewriter was bought for the Secretary of the S & R Section for $60. Two Tohai radios for rock rescue work were purchased for approximately half normal price. Nin gave a list of other purchases of equipment which he has recently made for the S & R Section. A patron is required for the Section. Anybody with ideas Please make them known. A practising solicitor who is employed by a non government organisation is also required. | ||
+ | The Treasurer gave a report on expenditure which consisted of $60 for a typewriter and $157.19 for other equipment for the S & R Section. The profit from the Ball raffle will be placed in the S & R account. The profit from the Ball which is approximately $150 is to be placed in the General Account. Nin Melville put in a miscellaneous account for payment of $11.74. The National Trust was sent an extra $2 as our donation since the fees had risen this year. A sum of $39 was forwarded to the Nature Conservation Council, which covered membership of 800. | ||
+ | 397 people attended the Ball. 13 Clubs. were represented. The raffle prize of $50 was won by Mrs. FL. Andrews and the sleeping bag was won by Yrs. Avery. The best dressed table trophy this year was won by the C.M.W. Mr. Bruce Vote won the door prize. | ||
+ | The S.U. Mountaineering Club has asked for affiliation. Two delegates volunteered to attend a meeting of this organisation. No further correspondence has been received from Wollongong Uni. College Bushwalking Club re. their application. The subject of combined club walks was raised. It was stated there had not been many such walks. | ||
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+ | October, 1970. TB E SYMTE' | ||
+ | **X-IHHHHHI-X-X-OHC-1Hei, | ||
+ | In the August issue I read without surprise that in June last "the pass from Mt. Victoria to the Grose River was dangerous because of erosion" | ||
+ | Quite a lot of water has run down the Grose since those war days so there is bound to have been some erosiOn on this route also. There is only one short piece of track on b of which I am really doubtful; if the first party through takes a rope they should not be stopped by it but should reach " | ||
+ | You leave Mt. Victoria by the old road to the Victoria Falls and follow it to within a hundred yards of the end, where there used to be an old shelter shed and where the tourist track started to zigzag down to the falls. Before reaching the last, flat stretch on which the shed stood, the road used to turn right down a fairly steep but not very long descent on to the flat and almost at.once we used to turn the cars off the road and park them among the trees on the left. | ||
+ | From this point, with your back to the road, you should see the ground falling away in front of you into an upland. valley. You should have no trouble in finding the remains of an old road chipped out of solid rock. Follow this down with a swamp, on your.left and go to where the creek leaved the swamp. The track will take you across the creek where there may still be signs of an old bridge. 'It then goes on along the floor of this valley and round a height to the right until it ends where there are signs that once there were buildings near a very small swamp. Go to your right and round the top of this swamp and you will find the start of an old foot track leading downhill to the small creek flowing from the swamp. Just above .a small cliff at the foot of the track you cross the creek and in a few yards =Joss back again, but first look over the cliff and you will see not far below a flat stretching to the left. This is where you would use the rope to descend to the flat should the old track that zigged down to the right and back to the flat be no longer | ||
+ | Page 16. TEELP SYDNEY BUSHWALICER. October, | ||
+ | there. It was on soil leaning :against the face of the cliff. | ||
+ | Then you reach the flat you will see a man-made hole in the cliff beside the waterfall. This was Wilson' | ||
+ | Looking across the gorge of the Grose from this flat you will see a doale-headed creek coming in opposite. Head down the steady slope through open bush for the point where this creek joins the river as the Grose comes round a bend. from the left. At that bend there is/was a small flat - too stony for camping in comfort - and at the downstream end of this flat a clear cattlepad crossed the river, rose five or six feet and then went down the left bank to the pool by the campsite at the junction of Victoria Falls Creek. | ||
+ | This is an easy route BUT when going down to the river DO NOT try to get there further downstream or you will find yourselves at the top of cliffs that drop sheer into the river. | ||
+ | 11#4,1tooao | ||
+ | Should you be making only a short trip to see the Victoria Falls would you like to try a different route back? | ||
+ | Approximately at the junction of the Victoria Falls Creek and the Grose River there is another small creek comes in " | ||
+ | If you go up the bare hillside between this creek and the river until you reach the cliff where the creek breaks through, there was | ||
+ | a cave on the left bank and, immediately opposite (in 1942) Tuggle and I found steps cut into the rock as though this had been one exit from the surveyor' | ||
+ | Some months later I went up that same route again with some other q.B.W.' | ||
+ | October, 1970. T. BUSMTALKER Page 17. | ||
+ | tu6 ralcv | ||
+ | ********************** By Alan pike ***************-*************** NOVEMBER 6 7 8 | ||
+ | This weekend-Ray Hookway will be reclining on a lila in the Kowmung River. His trip goes from Kanagra down spectacular Gatbage Spire to the Kowmung and returns via Rots Ridge (the easiest way back) after about 10 miles of pleasant floating. Make sure your libo has a certificate of seaworthiness and that you have plenty of plastic bags to keep your odds and ends dry. | ||
+ | The day walk on Sunday is led by be3enthusiast, | ||
+ | NOVEMBER 13, 14, 15. | ||
+ | Peter Franks is leading a walk in the Wolgan Valley near Newnes. This is strange as there are no oranges growing there. The walk will be interesting as it is a new one; distance is only 15 miles and takes in some good vantage points for views. It could be a bit scrubby in places as you won't find tracks all the way. | ||
+ | There are two day walks on Sunday. The one for bludgers is down Kangaroo Creek and led by Sheila Binns. Jim Callaway leads the other walk: a test walk which offers variety in both bush and. beach scenery. | ||
+ | This weekend Betty Farquhar is running an instructional for prospective members. Eight miles of walking in the Heathcote Primitive Area. All prospectives and members are welcome. | ||
+ | Anne O' | ||
+ | The Sunday walk is led by Jim Brown; a round trip from Otford to Otford via some of Jim's secret haunts. | ||
+ | NOVIELER | ||
+ | Owen Marks never goes anywhere unless he's been there before and this is why his walk will be one of the best on the programme. A 20 miles medium test walk with plenty of swimming, it starts from Tony Carlon' | ||
+ | Page 18, THE SYDNEY BUSHTALKER October, | ||
+ | The Sunday walk also has plenty of swimming. It is. a test walk led. by Spiro Ketas and takes in the best part of the Cox's River. You may have to get up at 6 a.m. but it will be well worth it. | ||
+ | DECEMBET40, 6. | ||
+ | Julie Frost and Peter Franks have organised a superb gourmet weekend at MCArthur' | ||
+ | Don Finch is opening the abseiling season in no small way with a trip down Dannae Brook this weekend. Adventure guaranteed: | ||
+ | On Sunday Alan Hedstram leads a walk on the Hawkedbury River. Easy to medium-- and. it is advisable to carry water for the morning. | ||
+ | *.X****.X*********** | ||
+ | CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR TRIPS | ||
+ | Now is the time to holiday periods, bearing been programmed,, | ||
+ | It is being left to Christmas and New Year to or want some suggestions, | ||
+ | Club :Members to arrange their own trips for suit their own tastes. If you have any ideas speak to Alan Pike (Walks Secretary). | ||
+ | WE THE MOST OF THE HOLIDAY PERIOD. | ||
+ | ******************** | ||
+ | NORFOLK ISLAND | ||
+ | After Sammy Hinde' | ||
+ | Anyone who may be interested get in touch with Neville Page either in the Club or ring at work (2-0223) | ||
+ | **:c x*-* | ||
+ | October, 1970. THE SYDNEY BUSMALKER Page 19* . | ||
+ | M | ||
+ | ****-X XX XX XXX X-X XXX X******* By Observer **********4" | ||
+ | A recent walk to Bonnum Pic resulted in the leader Peter Franks falling over a ledge and bruising all his ribs and ankles. To get revenge he woke the party up next morning at 5.30 a.m. Noone believes his claim that it was accidental. Damage to the leader can't have been all that bad because he and Owen Marks then boasted that they managed to fit in a twohour sleep before the rest of the party arrived at the cars. | ||
+ | The Club Auetion Sale was a great success. The President took the booby prize for buying the largest amount of the most useless junk and al3; of it on credits | ||
+ | *4E46*** | ||
+ | few weeks ago, a strange sight was beheld. Fifteen people holding bands to cross the flooded' | ||
+ | XXXXXX | ||
+ | Latest word from globetrotting S.B.W. member Ken Ellis is that he's left England bound for India via all stops along the way. Since the last report Ken had visited America (" | ||
+ | The Dungalla Club has produced its Second Annual Report (bearing a considerable resetblance to the S.B.W. Annual Report) outlining the Club's activities for the year and attaching the Membership List. Total membership of the Club now stands at 171, including.3 honorary and 5 Associate Members, which is quite an impressive record for a Club only two years old. A regular newsletter is also produced entitled "The Dungalloper", | ||
+ | Page 20. | ||
+ | THE SYDNEY BUSHWALICER | ||
+ | October; 1970. | ||
+ | FERGY GEAR COMPANY | ||
+ | FER5Y PACK HAL - FRAME | ||
+ | A SPECIAL PRICE IS OFFERED ON TWO ITEMS IN THIS NEW RANGE OF FRAME PACKS:- | ||
+ | ROVERPACK - Reduced | ||
+ | to $20 | ||
+ | BUSHMAN - Reduced | ||
+ | to $24 | ||
+ | (This pack is recommended for beginners) | ||
+ | A DELUXE BUSMAN PACK IS ALSO AVAILABLE WITH NYLON MAP POCKET AND THROAT AS EXTRAS; LIST PRICE $30. | ||
+ | FOR A LOOK AT THIS NEW RANGE OF PACKS CONTACT:- | ||
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+ | or | ||
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+ | STRONG- | ||
+ | VERSATILE | ||
+ | -COMFORTABLE | ||
+ | ; | ||
+ | The children' | ||
+ | weighs only 2Y2 lb! | ||
+ | Page 22. THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER October, | ||
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+ | CHRISTMAS PARTY Once again commercialized Christian celebration is here again - viz. Christmas Partytimo. | ||
+ | TEE S.3.7. CHRISTMAS PARTY | ||
+ | PLACE: Norma and Eric Rowen' | ||
+ | SYIVAITIA, HEIGHTS. | ||
+ | DATE: Saturday, 12th. December, From 4 p.m. onwards. | ||
+ | THAT TO BRING t | ||
+ | WE IN YOU GET: | ||
+ | Barbecue meat and other bits and pieCos for dinner. | ||
+ | Knife fork & spoon, | ||
+ | Cup and plate. | ||
+ | Cocktails and Hors d' | ||
+ | Light supper provided | ||
+ | AND IT COSTS YOU NOTHING | ||
+ | Senior members will be pleased to note that the Rowen home has been offered at Sylvania Heights for the Sydney Bushwalkers Christmas Party this year. Norma has plenty of space for setting up tents for those who wish to stay (or too drunk to drive) - a dance floor for the wild young ones (bring your own records). Cocktails and hors d' | ||
+ | NOVEMBER SOCIAL PROGRAMME We have two star attractions programmed for the November Club nights. | ||
+ | On the 18th. Mouldy Harrison - 34 Times-Around-TheWorld, | ||
+ | 25th. This is the night that all insect-lovers have been waiting for. The speaker is the Curator of Insects at the Australian Museum, Dr. Courtoney-Smithers. He will talk on the migratory habits of insects, and this will be followed. by a wine and cheese supper. | ||
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