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 - By Dot Butler.
-Most of you are aware tha "a National 7:=Ic" is to 1,c1 ,lodicatod in
+Most of you are aware that "a National Park" is to dedicated in the Myall Lakes area. To the vast majorIty this testifies that the Government is mindful of the need for recreational areas for the 5 million people who in fifty years will be holidaying every summer at our coast resorts. However, conservationists are not happy about the paltry area of the land to be set aside as National Park (a mere 2 chains width surrounding the water of the lakes and a relatively small amount of Crown lanad of which about 6,430 acres, (more than half) is to be mined for rutile. The Government may eventually be persuaded to set aside a greater area but what of its quality?
-the VT:-aLl Lakee area. To the vast majorIty this testifies th;	Government
-is minjful of 1uhr.3 need for recreational areas for the 5	people
+Anycno who has witnessed the complete devastation which is following in the wake of the rutile miners on our northern beaches will be sympathetic towards the Myall Lakes Committee in their attempts to prevent mining, at least within the precincts of the proposed park. They are not propagandizing for the fun of it.
-who iii fifty 7ars will be holidaying every summer at cur coast resorts. HOWOVC2 conservationists are not happy about the paltry area of the land to be set aside as :ational Park (a 1118-2C) 2 chains width surrourc the water
-of thq 2akes ana a relatively small amount of Crown la':11 of nhih about 6,430 orcs (more than half) is to be mined for rutile Thn Government may eventually be persuaded to set aside a greater area but what of its quality?
+Mining detracts from, and obliterates the quality of a park. At present visitors to the lakes are delighted by wide and peaceful waters; on a closer look they can find even greater charm in the infinite variety of plant communities possible within a uniform environment, "The Sea of Sand", beginning with low dune species and grading into a climax communities of eucalyptus forest - the whole system being subtly and wonderfully alive. To disrupt this complex system is vandalism on the aesthetic level. On the level of scientific enquiry it is barbarous, yet the Government remains unmoved by representations to protect the scientific area, which has attracted international scientific interest.
-Anycno who has witnessed the complete devastation Thich is following . in the a10 cf the rutile miners on our northern beaches ill be sympathetic towards the '\uall Lakes Committee in their attempts to j;revent mining, at
-least within the precincts of the proposed park, They are not -c-::oragandizing
+We must insist on the absolute inviolability of such areas, with no ifs and buts. Such a policy has been adopted in the U.S. If only the best is good enough for the U.S., the main beneficiary of the beach mining industry, it should be good enough for us.
-for the fun of it.
-Mining detracts fzom, and obliterates the quality of R park, At
-present visitors to the lakes are delighted by wide and peaceful -mters5 on a closer look they can find even greater charm in the inf12.itc variety of
-plant communities possible within a uniform environment, "The J'ea of Sand",
-beginning with low dune species and grading into a climax communities of
-eucalyptus forest  the whole system being sUbtly and wonderfully alive. To disrupt this complex system is vandalism on the aesthetic level. On the level of scientific enquiry it is barbarous, yet the Government remains unmoved by representations to protect the scientific area, which has attracted international scientific interest.
-We must insist on the absolute inviolability of such areas, with no ifs and buts. Such a policy has been adopted in the U.S. If only the best
-February,- 4974...		-THESYDNEY'BUSHFALKER--	Page 11. is good enough for the U.S.', the main beneficiary of the beach mining
-industry,'it should.be good enough for us.
 The Government has no mandate either to sell the State or to squeeze the life out of it. Its duty is to the social and cultural needs of the people of New South Wales, not to overseas corporations.
-HELP WANTED 1 Conservation is becoming a very fashionable cause, due in
-large measure to the slogans which conservationist's are publicizing.
+__HELP WANTED__! Conservation is becoming a very fashionable cause, due in large measure to the slogans which conservationist's are publicizing. The Myall Lakes Committee has prepared car sticker slogans:
-The Myall Lakes Committee has prepared carsticker slogans " DON'T MINE MYALL LAKES "
-If you could help by distributing these slogans apply to Stephen Morgan, Box 102 The Union, Sydney University, 2006. Stephen can let you have bundles of 100 for sale at 20 cents each, or if you ask for only one, please send 30 cents to include the cost of postage. Your Clubs representative on the Myall Lakes Committee is Dot Butler, and she will have these stickers available at Club meetings for all those who care to support the cause.
+"__DON'T MINE MYALL LAKES__"
-Hundreds of cars displaying this slogan will help it to register on the pane mind, and perhap's save this beautiful area unspoiled for walkers and campers.
-************************ with Owen marks ***************************xxx4
+If you could help by distributing these slogans apply to Stephen Morgan, Box 102 The Union, Sydney University, 2006. Stephen can let you have bundles of 100 for sale at 20 cents each, or if you ask for only one, please send 30 cents to include the cost of postage. Your Club's representative on the Myall Lakes Committee is Dot Butler, and she will have these stickers available at Club meetings for all those who care to support the cause.
+Hundreds of cars displaying this slogan will help it to register on the public mind, and perhaps save this beautiful area unspoiled for walkers and campers.
+=====Socially Speaking.=====
+- with Owen Marks.
 This will be a very interesting month.
-WEDNESDAY, 17TH. MARCH. Miss Marr (a friend of Marion Lloyd) will be doing her bit for CHIROPODY PUBLIC RELATIONS. As most Bush walkers have feet, this lecture should. be. of interest to all.
-SATURDAY 20TH. MARCH. Craig and Marcia Shappert'of 15 Gaeroch Avenue, Tamarama telephone 30-2028) will be having a classical music evening. It will be a wine and cheese night, so bring along
+|Wednesday, 17th March|Miss Marr (a friend of Marion Lloyd) will be doing her bit for Chiropody Public Relations. As most Bush walkers have feet, this lecture should be of interest to all.|
-your favourite cheese; wine and biscuits will be supplied. Arrive sober at 7 p.m. and you'll be most welcome.
+|Saturday, 20th March|Craig and Marcia Shappert of 15 Gaeroch Avenue, Tamarama (telephone 30-2028) will be having a classical music evening. It will be a wine and cheese night, so bring along your favourite cheese; wine and biscuits will be supplied. Arrive sober at 7 p.m. and you'll be most welcome.|
-.TH..NEMARCH. Gerry Sinzig will be showing his slides on Canada. Gerry has promised to talk as little as possible. Three cheers for his consideration.
+|Wednesday, 24th March|Gerry Sinzig will be showing his slides on Canada. Gerry has promised to talk as little as possible. Three cheers for his consideration.|
-WEDNESDAY, 31ST. MARCH. The Bush Music Club will entertain us. You may recall that approximately 18 months ago they were our guests, and due to their enormous success they have been reinvited. It will be a Gala Night, but formal attire won't be necessary (unless you feel you must). A light supper will be provided.
+|Wednesday, 31st March|The Bush Music Club will entertain us. You may recall that approximately 18 months ago they were our guests, and due to their enormous success they have been re-invited. It will be a Gala Night, but formal attire won't be necessary (unless you feel you must). A light supper will be provided.|
-Page 12.	TEE SYDNEY BUSHWALICER	February, 1971.
-***********************xxx*** By Jim Brown ******************************
+=====Sensation In The Snow Country.=====
-In. its telling, this tale becomes rather disjointed because it is episodic in character. Oddly enough, it is worth telling only because it
-is episodic, so that one can interpolate some of the intervening conjecture, and some of the snippets of information which coloured the story.
+- By Jim Brown.
-Over the Christmas  New Year holiday period, Kath and I spent a week or so in the Alps country, first in the Brindabella Range, and finally a couple of days in the Kosciusko area. It was there on Thursday, January 7th., we joined forces with Nan and Paddy Bourke and their youngsters in a day walk to Blue Lake. At the saddle where the Blue Lake track parts company with the through trail to Carruthers Peak and Kosciusko, we set down our packs and went up "light" to the gap overlooking the western face of the Main Range.
-Along this short section of track we met, travelling the other way, a group of four people toting large and rather unprofessionallooking packs, and all wearing a collection of sweaters although the day was almost uncomfortably warm. Three were teenagers, I would guess, but the
+In its telling, this tale becomes rather disjointed because it is episodic in character. Oddly enough, it is worth telling only because it is episodic, so that one can interpolate some of the intervening conjecture, and some of the snippets of information which coloured the story.
-fourth, who may have been about thirty, was wearing a kilt. We exchanged
-a few words, learned they were going to Blue Lake for lunch, and went our opposite ways.
+Over the Christmas - New Year holiday period, Kath and I spent a week or so in the Alps country, first in the Brindabella Range, and finally a couple of days in the Kosciusko area. It was there on Thursday, January 7th., we joined forces with Nan and Paddy Bourke and their youngsters in a day walk to Blue Lake. At the saddle where the Blue Lake track parts company with the through trail to Carruthers Peak and Kosciusko, we set down our packs and went up "light" to the gap overlooking the western face of the Main Range.
+Along this short section of track we met, travelling the other way, a group of four people toting large and rather unprofessional looking packs, and all wearing a collection of sweaters although the day was almost uncomfortably warm. Three were teenagers, I would guess, but the fourth, who may have been about thirty, was wearing a kilt. We exchanged a few words, learned they were going to Blue Lake for lunch, and went our opposite ways.
 Perhaps an hour later, as we returned down the Blue Lake trail, one of the younger ones came toiling up the hill, panting and crying that "one of the blokes was bitten by a funnel web". (You will recall the newspaper alarm about funnel web spiders over the Christmas period). Now, I claim no prescience, but I asked "Sure it's a funnel web?" because I was under the impression that this variety of spider was not found so far south.
-I was told "It was a funnel web all right" and when we got down near the lake Paddy and I wont on to thelake shore to see if we could be of any assistance. The victim was sitting up and seemed to be OK, but there was a small red sweeling on his calf about halfway between ankle and knee. The spider had been in his trouser leg, and had been killed and was in a
-match box  a fairly large blackish creature, which for my money could be accepted as a funnel web.
+I was told "It was a funnel web all right" and when we got down near the lake Paddy and I went on to the lake shore to see if we could be of any assistance. The victim was sitting up and seemed to be OK, but there was a small red swelling on his calf about halfway between ankle and knee. The spider had been in his trouser leg, and had been killed and was in a match box - a fairly large blackish creature, which for my money could be accepted as a funnel web.
-The bitten one was now almost surrounded by a group of others
-camped by the Lake, and one of these people had such a formidable collection
+The bitten one was now almost surrounded by a group of others camped by the Lake, and one of these people had such a formidable collection of hypodermic syringes and other paraphernalia that it seemed probable he was a medical student. What with this, and the patient's apparent well-being half an hour after being bitten, Paddy felt we could not sensibly intervene, and so we offered any assistance we could give and rejoined our party for lunch.
-of hypodermic syringes and other paraphernalia that it seemed probable he
-was a medical student. What with this, and the patient's apparent wellbeing half an hour after being bitten, Paddy felt we could not sensibly intervene,
+About this time a four-wheel drive vehicle manned by a couple of people from the nearby Soil Conservation hut arrived at the rim of the depression containing Blue Lake. Then followed a hiatus, in which no-one stirred and there was no indication of the victim being taken out. I ventured the opinion that he may have been bitten by a march fly - of which there were many about - and then found the spider and drawn the obvious but wrong conclusion.
-and so we offered any assistance we could give and rejoined our -party for lunch.
-February, 1971.	THE SYDNEY BUSHVTALICER	Page 13.
+On our way out from Blue Lake we were told by the Soil Conservation people that they were prepared to carry the patient out if he could be got up the hill from the Lake, but his mates seemed unwilling to carry or move him. They had radio-ed the information to the Kosciusko Park Headquarters.
-About this time a four-wheel drive vehicle manned by a couple of people from the nearby Soil Conservation hut arrived at the rim of the
-depression containing Blue Lake. Then followed a hiatus, in which no-one
-stirred and there was no indication of the victim being taken out. I ventured the opinion that he may have been bitten by a march fly - of
-which there were many about - and then found the spider and drawn the obvious but wrong conclusion.
-On our way out from Blue Lake we were told by the Soil Conservation people that they were prepared to carry the patient out if he could be got up the hill from the Lake, but his mates seemed unwilling to carry or move him. The had radio-ed the information to the Kosciusko Park Headquarters.
 Later, as we neared Charlotte's Pass the same truck passed us and added a rider to the tale. The Park was sending its helicopter in to rescue the victim. No, they didn't think he would have to pay the costs - the Park had been in possession of the chopper for some months and had never had occasion to use it in any emergency situation. Probably they would chalk up today as the big justification for its purchase.
 And there ends the main narrative. The snippets follow.
-(1) The following day in Cooma We read in that day's "Sydney Morning Herald" of the helicopter rescue of a young man bitten by a funnel web spider near Kosciusko. An ambulance conveyed him from Jindabyne to Cooma, where police cleared a path through the motor traffic. He Was in Cooma Hospital in a satisfactory condition.
-(2) After all my doubts about funnel web spiders, and snide comment about march flies, I was rather abashed to read in the Geehi Club's booklet on the Snowy Mountains that "spiders of the funnel web (Atrax species) are to be found among the tussock grasses and should be kept at  arm's length", A funny place to keep them, but still confirmation of the type of spider.
+(1) The following day in Cooma we read in that day's "Sydney Morning Herald" of the helicopter rescue of a young man bitten by a funnel web spider near Kosciusko. An ambulance conveyed him from Jindabyne to Cooma, where police cleared a path through the motor traffic. He was in Cooma Hospital in a satisfactory condition.
-(3) Down at Merry Beach we again met the.Bourkes, who had an interesting addendum. At their camp at Sawpit Creek they had found, and captured, two large dark spiders and taken them to the Park Information Centre, whore it was thought they were funnel webs, but said it would be checked.
-On the day they left the Kosciusko area the Bourkes learned they were relatively harmless Wolf spiders, as was the spider which caused  the sensation at Blue Lake.
+(2) After all my doubts about funnel web spiders, and snide comment about march flies, I was rather abashed to read in the Geehi Club's booklet on the Snowy Mountains that "spiders of the funnel web (Atrax species) are to be found among the tussock grasses and __should be kept at arm's length__", A funny place to keep them, but still confirmation of the type of spider.
-Page 14.	THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER	February91971.
-(4) And as a final rider  a party led by Pat Harrison WAS in the Kosciusko country at the same time. The night after the spider episode they spent at Lake Albinal and there met the other three people left after the spider attack. Pat and his party did a day walk to Mt. Tate the following day and while they were away someone swiped Ray Hodkway's Bogong sleeping bag and left a tatty specimen in its place.
+(3) Down at Merry Beach we again met the Bourkes, who had an interesting addendum. At their camp at Sawpit Creek they had found, and captured, two large dark spiders and taken them to the Park Information Centre, weore it was thought they were funnel webs, but said it would be checked.
-WELL, MAYBE THE SPIDER DIDN'T BITE THE RIGHT ONE.
-***************
+On the day they left the Kosciusko area the Bourkes learned they were relatively harmless Wolf spiders, __as was the spider which caused the sensation at Blue Lake__.
-:1720
+(4) And as a final rider  a party led by Pat Harrison was in the Kosciusko country at the same time. The night after the spider episode they spent at Lake Albina, and there met the other three people left after the spider attack. Pat and his party did a day walk to Mt. Tate the following day and while they were away someone swiped Ray Hookway's Bogong sleeping bag and left a tatty specimen in its place.
+Well, maybe the spikder didn't bite the right one.
+=====The Sydney Bushwalkers Annual Reunion - 1971.=====
+Woods Creek.
+March 12-13-14.
+Convenor and transport detail: Bob Younger 57-1158 (H).
+=====Mountain Equipment.=====
 Have you paid us a visit yet?
-At 167 Pacific Highway, North Sydney, we are conveniently located for all Northsiders, and not too far away from the city for Southsiders. We'd
-be more than happy to welcome you, and show you what we've got. .
+At 167 Pacific Highway, North Sydney, we are conveniently located for all Northsiders, and not too far away from the city for Southsiders. We'd be more than happy to welcome you, and show you what we've got.
-And what we have got is the very best available. Sleeping bags (FAIRY DOTN of' course), and have you seen our NEW HIGH LOAD PACK, priced at only $27.50. It weighs only 3 lb 10 oz.
-All the best gear for walking, climbing, canoeing etc. We've got the lots
+And what we have got is the very best available. Sleeping bags (FAIRY DOWN of course), and have you seen our NEW HIGH LOAD PACK, priced at only $27.50. It weighs only 3 lb 10 oz.
-MOUNTAIN EQUIPMENT
-Pacific Highway,
+All the best gear for walking, climbing, canoeing etc. We've got the lot!
-NORTH SYDNEY, N.S.T.
-Phone 929-6504.
+Mountain Equipment.
-Page 16.	THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER	February, 1971.
-"FORGIVE THEM FOR THEY KNOTT NOT THAT THEY DO
+Pacific Highway, North Sydney. N.S.W. Phone 929-6504.
-************************ By David, W. peacock ******.x********************* Life is the most complicated phenomenon of which we are aware -
+====="Forgive Them for They Know Not What They Do!"=====
+- By David, W. Peacock.
+Life is the most complicated phenomenon of which we are aware -
 man is still thrashing through its outer secrets, and slowly de-coding
 its complexities, and each new discovery only exposes more problems. Life