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A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to The Sydney Bush Walkers; Box 4476, G.P.O. Sydney, N.S.W. 2001. | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to The Sydney Bush Walkers; Box 4476, G.P.O. Sydney, N.S.W. 2001. | ||
- | Club meetings are held every Wednesday evening from 7.30 p.m. at The Wireless Institute building, 14 Aitchison | + | Club meetings are held every Wednesday evening from 7.30 p.m. at The Wireless Institute building, 14 Atchison |
Enquiries concerning the Club should be referred to Mrs. Marcia Shappert - telephone 30.2028. | Enquiries concerning the Club should be referred to Mrs. Marcia Shappert - telephone 30.2028. | ||
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(One of the most Memorable events in conservation this year was the awarding of the 0.B.E. to Miles Dunphy, who is a foundation member of the Sydney Bushwalkers. The following is an extract from a letter of reply written by him to the Dungalla Club on this occasion, and is an outline of conservation efforts that started some fifty years ago. Miles is now 85.) | (One of the most Memorable events in conservation this year was the awarding of the 0.B.E. to Miles Dunphy, who is a foundation member of the Sydney Bushwalkers. The following is an extract from a letter of reply written by him to the Dungalla Club on this occasion, and is an outline of conservation efforts that started some fifty years ago. Miles is now 85.) | ||
- | You are right about remembering places in their primitive condition. It was because of the damaging forces that were at work wrecking the Blue Mountains wilderness that the early members of the Mountain Trails Club were led to study the situation for about ton years, to make sure of the facts. The Blue Mountains National Park Scheme, compiled about 1924-28, was a preliminary step towards it; but National Park, south of Sydney, needed attention first. Other than the public protest against tree-cutting in National Park, about 1921-22, which members supported, in 1924 the club protested to the Under Secretary for Lands, about abuses being perpetrated in National Park; in a number of ways - a list was furnished. The protest, which was not given to the press, went up to the Minister for Lands as first-hand-evidence (7hich it was) and must have caused a stir: the Minister for Lands wrote the club and promised to make an enquiry into the matter. | + | You are right about remembering places in their primitive condition. It was because of the damaging forces that were at work wrecking the Blue Mountains wilderness that the early members of the Mountain Trails Club were led to study the situation for about ten years, to make sure of the facts. The Blue Mountains National Park Scheme, compiled about 1924-28, was a preliminary step towards it; but National Park, south of Sydney, needed attention first. Other than the public protest against tree-cutting in National Park, about 1921-22, which members supported, in 1924 the club protested to the Under Secretary for Lands, about abuses being perpetrated in National Park; in a number of ways - a list was furnished. The protest, which was not given to the press, went up to the Minister for Lands as first-hand-evidence (which it was) and must have caused a stir: the Minister for Lands wrote the club and promised to make an enquiry into the matter. |
- | About the same time, as a separate matter, the club wrote to the Under Secretary for Lands and said that Garawarra | + | |
+ | About the same time, as a separate matter, the club wrote to the Under Secretary for Lands and said that Garawarra | ||
But in the end the private properties (freehold) were resumed and, with Gardwarra Park (the result of the Garawarra Campaign of 1933) were all added to Royal National Park! If the club's suggestion had been adopted, what a lot of time and trouble would have been saved. | But in the end the private properties (freehold) were resumed and, with Gardwarra Park (the result of the Garawarra Campaign of 1933) were all added to Royal National Park! If the club's suggestion had been adopted, what a lot of time and trouble would have been saved. | ||
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The Blue Gum Forest and Garawarra Park campaigns made the Department of Lands people realise certain truths about pedestrian tourists: like motor-tourists they knew what they wanted. Motor-tourists wanted more and better roads, and got them because they cost a lot of money and gave employment, and worked in with accommodation interests, and petrol, oil and car sales interests. | The Blue Gum Forest and Garawarra Park campaigns made the Department of Lands people realise certain truths about pedestrian tourists: like motor-tourists they knew what they wanted. Motor-tourists wanted more and better roads, and got them because they cost a lot of money and gave employment, and worked in with accommodation interests, and petrol, oil and car sales interests. | ||
- | The int--' | + | |
- | The railways were glad to cater for pedestrian tourists at weekends and holidays - but this was as far as Government effort went, the hikers, | + | The introduction |
- | Outside built-up areas there were no pads for visiting pedestrians or local school children they had to walk, on the roads, at risk. | + | |
- | Pedestrians had to use what they could find. They wanted areas to walk | + | The railways were glad to cater for pedestrian tourists at weekends and holidays - but this was as far as Government effort went, the hikers, |
- | about in, without roads, where all kinds of walkers could get away from cars and roads and see some wildlife. They wanted Garawarra, | + | |
- | Remember that motor-tourists and pedestrian-tourists both had legal | + | Outside built-up areas there were no pads for visiting pedestrians or local school children: they had to walk, on the roads, at risk. Pedestrians had to use what they could find. They wanted areas to walk about in, __without roads__, where all kinds of walkers could get away from cars and roads and see some wildlife. They wanted Garawarra, |
- | right to the use of public roads but car drivers made pack-carrying pedestrians stumble along rough gutters, so sensible pedestrians tried | + | |
- | to stay off roads but no authority provided a path for their safety. | + | Remember that motor-tourists and pedestrian-tourists both had legal right to the use of public roads but car drivers made pack-carrying pedestrians stumble along rough gutters, so sensible pedestrians tried to stay off roads but no authority provided a path for their safety. |
- | As pedestrian tourists had no legal right in Crown land, and were there on sufference, they wanted more parks and reserves suitable for | + | |
- | pedestrians. But the Dept. of Lands had other plans for the same areas in most cases. There is no time now to go into that. | + | As pedestrian tourists had no legal right in Crown land, and were there on sufference, they wanted more parks and reserves suitable for pedestrians. But the Dept. of Lands had other plans for the same areas in most cases. There is no time now to go into that. |
- | The story of roads in National Park could be quite a tale. The Park and railway nearly coincided in time. The Forest Road to Lugarno and Menai and Thos Mitchell' | + | |
- | You mentioned the upper length of Lady Carrington Road; it was a track for timber exaction before the Park was formed and there was a | + | The story of roads in National Park could be quite a tale. The Park and railway nearly coincided in time. The Forest Road to Lugarno and Menai and Thos Mitchell' |
- | Page 12. THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER August, 1977 | + | |
- | big sawmill just south of Upper Causeway, and another a mile or so nearer to Lily-vale. The Park boundary did not lie across the river but followed it for quite a distance, and in this strip and mostly on the western side of the track, the groves of tree-ferns, cabbage palms and other ferns and jungle growth stood between the big turpentines and | + | You mentioned the upper length of Lady Carrington Road; it was a track for timber exaction before the Park was formed and there was a big sawmill just south of Upper Causeway, and another a mile or so nearer to Lilyvale. The Park boundary did not lie across the river but followed it for quite a distance, and in this strip and mostly on the western side of the track, the groves of tree-ferns, cabbage palms and other ferns and jungle growth stood between the big turpentines and others that probably were centuries old. On the other side of the track which received more sunshine there was much forest oak (casuarina) and flowering |
- | others that probably were centuries old. On the other side of the track which received more sunshine there was much forest oak (casuarina) and flowaring | + | (surrounded by Garawarra Park). At the south end about a mile of the cliff track was taken over by a part of Lady Wakehurst |
- | 1933-36 period the Government departments concerned received permission | + | |
- | to build the Lade Wakehurst Drive, an auxiliary Princes Highway, remodelled. DicKell | + | The motor-tourist industry, in successive steps, formed motor roads where before were sulky tracks. We tried with other bushwalkers to have the National Park designed into Tourist Development |
- | (surrounded by Garawarra Park). At the south end about a mile of the cliff track was taken over by a part of Lady Wak: | + | |
- | The motor-tourist industry, in successive steps, formed motor roads where before were sulky tracks. We tried with other bushwalkers to have the National Park designed into Tourist Development | + | |
- | We thought the trustees wanted to feel free to put new roads where they | + | |
- | liked. When the National Parks and Wildlife Service took over it blocked off some of the roads. | + | |
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