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-THE SYDNEY BUSH WALKERS INCORPORATED-- ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS 1988
+===== The Sydney Bush Walkers Incorporated - Annual Subscriptions 1988. =====
 Single active member $25
 Household (Single plus $15 for each extra person)
 Non-active member $ 5
-plus magazine $16
+Non-active member plus magazine $16
 Magazine subscription only $12
 Please attach your cheque/money order to the form provided on the last page of March or April magazine and post to The Treasurer, Sydney Bush Walkers Incorporated, Box 4476 GPO, Sydney, 2001. If a receipt is required please send a stamped self-addressed envelope.
-Page B The Sydney Bushwalker June, 1988
-A FEW THOUGHTS FROM VICTORIA
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+===== A Few Thoughts From Victoria. =====
 by Sandra Bardwell
-It was good to read Dave Rostron's account of his walk in Victoriala high country in the April 1988 edition. I hope that readers will overlook the inclement weather the party endured and succumb to the temptation to venture across the border to explore.some of "our" fine walking country.
+It was good to read Dave Rostron's account of his walk in Victoria's high country in the April 1988 edition. I hope that readers will overlook the inclement weather the party endured and succumb to the temptation to venture across the border to explore some of "our" fine walking country.
 However, I am not writing a promotional feature, but expressing concern on two counts engendered by Dave's story.
-Firstly, the intrepid eight were not merely walking in "Victoria's Alps" - they spent nearly all their time in a national park! Bogong National Park to be precise. Perhaps this year, the STatels Parliament willing, the park will become part of a much larger Alpine National Park, contiguous with Kosciusko National Park. Victoria's national parks (and similar reserves) are now managed by the Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands, which includes among its disparate parts, a National Parks & Wildlife Division - which does not have direct responsibility for park management!
-Secondly, and of greater concern, is the apparent obsession with lighting fires for cooking and warmth, which has been noticeable in other trip accounts in the magazine too.
+Firstly, the intrepid eight were not merely walking in "Victoria's Alps" - they spent nearly all their time in a national park! Bogong National Park to be precise. Perhaps this year, the State's Parliament willing, the park will become part of a much larger Alpine National Park, contiguous with Kosciusko National Park. Victoria's national parks (and similar reserves) are now managed by the Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands, which includes among its disparate parts, a National Parks & Wildlife Division - which does not have direct responsibility for park management!
-For example, how wasteful of energy (if not almost silly) to walk 200-300 metres from Federation Hut to find wood!
+Secondly, and of greater concern, is the apparent obsession with lighting fires for cooking and warmth, which has been noticeable in other trip accounts in the magazine too. For example, how wasteful of energy (if not almost silly) to walk 200-300 metres from Federation Hut to find wood!
 Certainly, during my apprenticeship with SBW in the early 1980s and for many years afterwards elsewhere, a fire was an integral part of each night's camp. However, in the last few years, as bushwalking has grown rapidly and enormously in popularity, campfires have flickered into disfavour. The main reasons are:
-O dwindling timber supplies at popular campsites
-O awareness of the ecological value of dead timber
+  * dwindling timber supplies at popular campsites
-O aversion for the ugly scars left on the ground by campfires
+  * awareness of the ecological value of dead timber
+  * aversion for the ugly scars left on the ground by campfires
 Portable stoves, or choofers, are now IN and fires are OUT (except in a dire emergency when the need for warmth is curcial).
-This article of faith has been a key feature of the Minimum Impact Bushwalking campaign being waged in Tasmania (see Wild 23, Summer 1987). It will be emphasised in the forthcoming Visitors Codes for the Australian Alps National Parks, to be produced by NSW, ACT and Victoria with the help of the Australian National Parks & Wildlife Service. In Victoria, the Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands stresses the preferability of stoves, especially in national parks, and especially near and above the tree line, at every opportunity.
-Stoves make cooking quick, safe and easy. They are now light in weight, economical and easy to use. While Dave's party was hunting for wood at Federation Hut, I would have had a cup of tea and would have been well on the way to serving dinner. With a stove there are no disasters with wobbly billies, no singed fingers and hands. True, a stove does not exude atmosphere and it doesn't readily encourage conviviality, as a fiva does. But a stove does not make an enjoyable evening unthinkable or impossible. True again, you have to carry a stove and the necessary fuel, but a pound or two isn't much of a price to pay for helping to keep the bush intact.
+This article of faith has been a key feature of the Minimum Impact Bushwalking campaign being waged in Tasmania (see __Wild__ 23, Summer 1987). It will be emphasised in the forthcoming Visitors Codes for the Australian Alps National Parks, to be produced by NSW, ACT and Victoria with the help of the Australian National Parks & Wildlife Service. In Victoria, the Department of Conservation, Forests and Lands stresses the preferability of stoves, especially in national parks, and especially near and above the tree line, at every opportunity.
-So please, Sydney Bushies, give stoves a try and confine fires to properly constructed fireplacesv-where wood is provided or naturally abundant.
+Stoves make cooking quick, safe and easy. They are now light in weight, economical and easy to use. While Dave's party was hunting for wood at Federation Hut, I would have had a cup of tea and would have been well on the way to serving dinner. With a stove there are no disasters with wobbly billies, no singed fingers and hands. True, a stove does not exude atmosphere and it doesn't readily encourage conviviality, as a fire does. But a stove does not make an enjoyable evening unthinkable or impossible. True again, you have to carry a stove and the necessary fuel, but a pound or two isn't much of a price to pay for helping to keep the bush intact.
+So please, Sydney Bushies, give stoves a try and confine fires to properly constructed fireplaces, where wood is provided or naturally abundant.
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 Minimum Impact Bushwalking - seems excellent theory especially at or near the timber line. In practice the impact of even a large number of bushwalkers and their fires is insignificant compared to one bushfire. Readers comments are invited - EDITOR.
-June, 1988 The Sydney Bushwalker Page 9
-THE MAY GENERAL MEETING
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+===== The May General Meeting. =====
 by Barry Wallace
 The time was around 2011 when the President called the 30 or so members present to Order and began the May General Meeting.
-There were apologies from Alan Mewett, Kenn Clacher,-Denise Shaw and Don Finch. ,New members Suzanne and Bill Blackwell were called for welcome but only Bill was present.
+There were apologies from Alan Mewett, Kenn Clacher, Denise Shaw and Don Finch. New members Suzanne and Bill Blackwell were called for welcome but only Bill was present.
 The Minutes of last month's meeting were read and received, the only business arising being mention that the printing instructional day will be scheduled sometime after June. Further debate on Coolana was deferred to General Business.
-Correspondence brought a letter from Tom Moppett requesting Club historical details, a copy of minutes from the latest FBW meeting, notice that the Kameruka Bushwalking Club has been disbanded, notice of a general Meeting of Natural Areas Limited, a letter from Jim Brown querying the accuracy of non-active subscriptions published recently, a letter from Helen Gray proposing that Sheila Binns be granted Honorary Membership, and two letters of resignation, one from Rod Peters in Canberra and the other from Sheila Binns. Correspondence out comprised letters to new, members, and a letter to Sheila offering Hon. Membership. Somehow or other business arising brought notice that the Taxation Department has ruled that SBW is not required to lodge a tax return.
+Correspondence brought a letter from Tom Moppett requesting Club historical details, a copy of minutes from the latest FBW meeting, notice that the Kameruka Bushwalking Club has been disbanded, notice of a general Meeting of Natural Areas Limited, a letter from Jim Brown querying the accuracy of non-active subscriptions published recently, a letter from Helen Gray proposing that Sheila Binns be granted Honorary Membership, and two letters of resignation, one from Rod Peters in Canberra and the other from Sheila Binns. Correspondence out comprised letters to new members, and a letter to Sheila offering Hon. Membership. Somehow or other business arising brought notice that the Taxation Department has ruled that SBW is not required to lodge a tax return.
 At this stage the Treasurer was still knee deep in alligators in a corner, so we granted her plea for mercy and passed on, you guessed it, to the Walks Report.
-Oliver Crawford opened proceedings with a novelty item, a two day walk where it rained and the 8 people present completed the walk on time. Alan Doherty reported 12 starters on
-his Cox River walk experiencing some problems with swollen streams. Hans Stichter's Glenbrook day walk had 20 starters, 5 of whom abandoned the effort after Showers at the start.
+Oliver Crawford opened proceedings with a novelty item, a two day walk where it rained and the 8 people present completed the walk on time. Alan Doherty reported 12 starters on his Cox River walk experiencing some problems with swollen streams. Hans Stichter's Glenbrook day walk had 20 starters, 5 of whom abandoned the effort after showers at the start.
-Over the weekend 22 to 25 April George Walton cancelled his Kowmung River weekend trip, but Carol Bruce reported fine sunny weather and pleasant country for the 7 people who attended her Coolangubra walk. Bill Capon had 9 starters enjoying his Newhaven Gap, Clyde River walk in muddy conditions with good weather. Maurie Bloom had 21 on his Budawangs walk, sloshing across the marshy surface under sunny skies. Errol Sheedy had 28 on his Kangaroo Creek day walk in fine conditions and the Splendour Rock Anzac Day Remembrance saw 70 members from 13-clubs enjoying campfire singing, poetry, and later, the sunrise.
-Whether by blind chance or otherwise there was some re-shuffling of walks which left the last weekend in April, a very wet weekend, devoid of all walks-save Kenn Clacher's Newhaven Gap trip, which he wisely cancelled.
+Over the weekend 22 to 25 April George Walton cancelled his Kowmung River weekend trip, but Carol Bruce reported fine sunny weather and pleasant country for the 7 people who attended her Coolangubra walk. Bill Capon had 9 starters enjoying his Newhaven Gap, Clyde River walk in muddy conditions with good weather. Maurie Bloom had 21 on his Budawangs walk, sloshing across the marshy surface under sunny skies. Errol Sheedy had 28 on his Kangaroo Creek day walk in fine conditions and the Splendour Rock Anzac Day Remembrance saw 70 members from 13 clubs enjoying campfire singing, poetry, and later, the sunrise.
+Whether by blind chance or otherwise there was some re-shuffling of walks which left the last weekend in April, a very wet weekend, devoid of all walks save Kenn Clacher's Newhaven Gap trip, which he wisely cancelled.
 The weekend of 6,7,8 May saw Les Powell and the party of 4 on his Timboolina walk swimming the flooded Shoalhaven and reversing the sequence of the walk to cope with the aftermath of the rains. At least there was no shortage of water. Jim Percy led a party of 10 on his Kanangra Creek trip. Again the waters forced changes, as they abandoned plans to ascend Murdering Gully. Ian Debert had 10 on a shortened version of his Megalong Valley birthday walk. Of the day walks, Alan Mewett led 14 on his Gundaman area walk, where, due no doubt to generally sloppy time control, they emerged 14 minutes early. It won't do you know! Marie Ward's day walk has been transferred to the following weekend and the next Walks Report.
 The Treasurer's Report indicated that we began the month with $2534.42, received income of $1674.15, spent $645.82 and closed with a balance of $3562.75.
 General Business revealed that the Coolana transfer has been returned from the Stamp Duties Office and so the transfer is now registered.
 Despite various lines of investigation and a good deal of undeserved animosity towards them, it appears the Coolana ticks are there to stay.
-The Gestetner duplicator is to be advertised in the Club magazine..., any takers? The meeting closed at around 2116.
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-ICAMPING EQUIPMENT Large Tents  Stoves  Lamps.* Folding Furniture.
-DISTRIBUTORS OF:
-Paddyrnade  Karrimor  Berghaus  Hallmark  Bergans  Caribee  Fairydown * Silva  Primus  Companion  and all leading brands.
-A in Iielge Street
-LOVI
-EASTWOOD CANVAS GOODS & CAMPING SiiPPLI ES 3 Traiawney St Eastwood NSW 2122 Phone: 858 2775
-Proprietors:',1 Jack Et Nancy Fox Sales Manager: David Fox
-Rowe Street
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+The Gestetner duplicator is to be advertised in the Club magazine... any takers? The meeting closed at around 2116.
-BUSHWAUCERS
-Lightweight Tents  Sleeping Bags  Rucksacks  Climbing Et Caving, Gear  Maps  Clothing Boots
+----
- Food.
-June 1988 The Sydney Bushwalker Page 11
+=== Eastwood Camping Centre. ===
-FEDERATION OF BUSHWALKING  CLUBS NSW - Report of May Meeting.
+__Bushwalkers__.
+Lightweight Tents - Sleeping Bags - Rucksacks - Climbing & Caving Gear - Maps - Clothing - Boots - Food.
+__Camping equipment__.
+Large Tents - Stoves - Lamps - Folding Furniture.
+__Distributors of__:
+Paddymade - Karrimor - Berghaus - Hallmark - Bergans - Caribee - Fairydown - Silva - Primus - Companion - and all leading brands.
+Proprietors: Jack & Nancy Fox. Sales Manager: David Fox.
+Eastwood Canvas Good & Camping Supplies.
+Trelawney St., Eastwood, NSW, 2122. Phone 858 2775.
+----
+===== Federation Of Bushwalking Clubs NSW. =====
+=== Report of May Meeting. ===
 by Spiro Hajinakitas
-Tim Moore is to meet with a small delegation from FBW. Roger Lembit will bring up the issue of tracks and access to National Parks and the intrusion of 4 WD and horse riders; Keith Maxwell - insurance; Herb Lippmann - education; Gordon Lee -dogging, rainforests, national parks clean ups; Ian Wilson (or Tim Coffey) - Warragamba.
-A letter from Brian Harvey praising F8W for the fine effort in organising the Anzac Service at Splendour Rock. Also a letter to say that The Kameruka Club has ceased to exist.
+Tim Moore is to meet with a small delegation from FBW. Roger Lembit will bring up the issue of tracks and access to National Parks and the intrusion of 4 WD and horse riders; Keith Maxwell - insurance; Herb Lippmann - education; Gordon Lee - logging, rainforests, national parks clean ups; Ian Wilson (or Tim Coffey) - Warragamba.
+A letter from Brian Harvey praising FBW for the fine effort in organising the Anzac Service at Splendour Rock. Also a letter to say that The Kameruka Club has ceased to exist.
 Gordon Lee requires articles for the Newsletter. Gordon's address: 2/22 Sunbeam Avenue, Enfield 2136.
-Kpwmung Report: Any last minute suggestions to be included in Ian Wilson's submission to the Government please ring Ian 517 2962 (H) before 8 pm or work 27 7766.
-, Tracks & Access: The Government has established a National Parks Access Committee which Roger Lembit fears will bm favourable to 4 WD particularly in Wollemi and nue Mduntains N.P. Dave Noble urges all Clubs to write to Mr. Moore and protest strongly. Roger's new phone number is (049) 33 7961.
+Kowmung Report: Any last minute suggestions to be included in Ian Wilson's submission to the Government please ring Ian 517 2962 (H) before 8 pm or work 27 7766.
-Search & Rescue: 1. Lost couple in Mt. Kuringai 13 May found (by accident) by a member of S & R out on a cycling trip. 2. Renewed search for crashed plane 7 years ago will take place in October. 3. S & R training weekend 23/24 JUly - a 24 hr rogaine in Northern Budawangs, map Endrick ref.gr. 377073.
-Gordon Lee is leading a SBW CLEAN UP of the DEX CREEK AREA on 6/7 August. All interested
+Tracks & Access: The Government has established a National Parks Access Committee which Roger Lembit fears will be favourable to 4 WD particularly in Wollemi and Blue Mountains N.P. Dave Noble urges all Clubs to write to Mr. Moore and protest strongly. Roger's new phone number is (049) 33 7961.
-helpers are welcome to attend.
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+Search & Rescue: 1. Lost couple in Mt. Kuringai 13 May found (by accident) by a member of S & R out on a cycling trip. 2. Renewed search for crashed plane 7 years ago will take place in October. 3. S & R training weekend 23/24 July - a 24 hr rogaine in Northern Budawangs, map Endrick ref.gr. 377073.
-FEDERATION SEARCH & RESCUE  - JULY TRAINING WEEKEND
-"The 1988 Bicentennial radio controlled Rogaine"
+Gordon Lee is leading a __SBW Clean Up__ of the __Dex Creek area__ on 6/7 August. All interested helpers are welcome to attend.
-WHEN? Saturday and Sunday 23rd & 24th July
-WHERE? Northern Budawangs. Base G R 377073
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-WHAT? A 24 hour Rogaine with checkpoints to suit both beginners and hotshot navigators
-WHO? Any member of a Federation Bushwalking Club who is 18 years or over
+===== Federation Search & Rescue - July Training Weekend. =====
-WHAT TO BRING? Your compass, volleys and a copy of Endrick 1:25000 For further details phone Bob Cavill on 520.5634 "WILL YOUR CLUB FIND THE MOST CHECK POINTS?" (This is NOT a bicentennially funded project)
-* * * * * * * * * *
+=== "The 1988 Bicentennial radio controlled Rogaine" ===
-Page 12 The Sydney Bushwalker June, 1988
-LETTER TO THE EDITOR
+When? Saturday and Sunday 23rd & 24th July
-Dear Sir
+Where? Northern Budawangs. Base G R 377073
+What? A 24 hour Rogaine with checkpoints to suit both beginners and hotshot navigators
+Who? Any member of a Federation Bushwalking Club who is 18 years or over
+What to bring? Your compass, volleys and a copy of Endrick 1:25000 For further details phone Bob Cavill on 520.5634
+__"Will your club find the most checkpoints?"__
+(This is NOT a bicentennially funded project)
+----
+===== Letter To The Editor. =====
+Dear Sir,
 Having been approached by our Walks Secretary to 'fill some gaps' on the walks program, I decided that I would offer some walks for the benefit of our walking club.
 I suggested to our Walks Secretary that he might include, next to my home phone number, "call between 6 pm - 9 pm only", this having been included in all but one of my walks listings.
-During the two weeks prior to the walk where this information was not included, I received several phone enquiries from members at various times of the day, including 6.10 am on a week day, and several after 10.00 pm.
+During the two weeks prior to the walk where this information was __not__ included, I received several phone enquiries from members at various times of the day, including 6.10 am on a week day, and several after 10.00 pm.
 Whilst I don't criticise our Walks Secretary for having inadvertently excluded the contact times from the program, I am rather critical and disappointed that intending walk participants do not use some commonsense and courtesy, when it comes to phoning walks leaders.
 Some leaders, including myself, have young families and do not possess "night owl" traits, as obviously some of our other club members do.
 I ask that intending walks participants show some courtesy to walks leaders and commonsense when it comes to contacting leaders prior to a programmed walk.
 Perhaps some of our members would better appreciate the role of a leader if they would in turn become leaders themselves.
-HANS STICHTER.
-BELVEDERE TAXIS BLACKHEATH
+Hans Stichter.
-SEATER MINI BUS TAXI
--87 8366
+----
-KANANGRA BOYD
-. UPPER BLUE MOUNTAINS
+=== Belvedere Taxis Blackheath. ===
-SIX FOOT TRACK
-PICK UP ANYWHERE FOR START OR FINISH OF YOUR WALK - BY PRIOR ARRANGEMENT
+seater mini bus taxi. 047-87 8366.
-Share the Fare Competitive Rates
-June, 1988 The Sydney BUshwalker Page 13
+Kanangra Boyd. Upper Blue Mountains. Six Foot Track.
-SPRING WALKS PROGRAM From JOHN PORTER, our Walks Secretary.
+Pick up anywhere for start or finish of your walk - by prior arrangement.
+Share the fare - competitive rates.
+----
+===== Spring Walks Program. =====
+From John Porter, our Walks Secretary.
 Would all walks leaders and intending walks leaders ensure that they give to me at their earliest convenience walks to go on the Spring Program so as there is ample time to collate, type and proof read the walks before they go to printing.
-I attend nearly every Wednesday night at the club rooms so as you may write your own walks details onto the program. I will accept walks
-addressed to me via the club postal address GPO Box 4476 Sydney 2001. The number and types of walks depend on people willing to put walks onto the program.
+I attend nearly every Wednesday night at the club rooms so as you may write your own walks details onto the program. I will accept walks addressed to me via the club postal address GPO Box 4476 Sydney 2001. The number and types of walks depend on people willing to put walks onto the program.
 The closing date for the Spring Program is Friday, 29 July, 1988.
-************
-VOLLEY FOOT
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+===== Volley Foot. =====
 by Dr. Mac *
 With the colder weather now on us one of the more unpleasant maladies that afflicts bushwalkers becomes more prevalent. I refer to Volley Foot. This disease affects all forms of bush walking life, that is to say male, female, casual, tiger, day and weekend types of walkers.
 Symptoms: Unpleasant odour from the feet area, an increase in the diameter of the circle of confidence, a desire to increase the distance between the feet and the nose. Secondary signs are damp socks usually accompanied by damp volleys.
 Treatment: Treatment is simple and cure rate about 99%. Copious quantities of soap and water, the later preferably hot. In severe cases removal of the volleys and exchange with fresh dressing. The discarded volleys should he incinerated to prevent re-occurence of the malady.
 (* Dr. Mac is a nom-de-plume assumed for ethical reasons.)
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-CLUB AUCTION
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-WednesdalLEttjulx
-This is our annual Club Auction. Please bring along anything you may wish to dispose of - whether it be of a bushwalking nature or not. You may put a reserve on any article and if the reserve is reached this amount will go to you. Any amount beyond the reserve goes to the Club. CHARLIE BROWN wil be the auctioneer. Charlie's auctioneering style will be guaranteed to amuse you even if you buy or sell nothing. An evening of entertainment is assured and (hopefully) the Club wil make a profit as well.
+===== Club Auction. =====
+__Wednesday, 27th July__
+This is our annual Club Auction. Please bring along anything you may wish to dispose of - whether it be of a bushwalking nature or not. You may put a reserve on any article and if the reserve is reached this amount will go to you. Any amount beyond the reserve goes to the Club. Charlie Brown will be the auctioneer. Charlie's auctioneering style will be guaranteed to amuse you even if you buy or sell nothing. An evening of entertainment is assured and (hopefully) the Club will make a profit as well.
 Don't forget to bring your MONEY!
-CHANGE OF ADDRESS
-Spiro Hajinakitas - 34/1 Tewkesbury Avenue, Oarlinghurst. 2010. Telephone ' 332 3452
+----
-MDRAG RYDER now has a home telphone number - 809 4241.
-***********
+=== Change of address. ===
-Page 14 The Sydney Bushwalker June, 1'9E18
-FO OTNOTES
+Spiro Hajinakitas - 34/1 Tewkesbury Avenue, Darlinghurst. 2010. Telephone 332 3452.
-" A PRINTING INSTRUCTION DAY will be organised soon for all those aspiring inky devils - watch this space for further details.
-o What you missed No.l. 32 happy people gathered at the Club Rooms to literally wrap-up the May edition of the Sydney Rushwalker, your magazine. It really is quite sociable to sit and chat as you collate, staple, wrap, gum and label each magazine. Next time why don't you come along.
+Morag Ryder now has a home telephone number - 809 4241.
-o What you missed No.2. The bush dance organised by the FBW on 13 May attracted 140 devotees of this form of exercise: a mixture of bush walking, jogging, and tap dancing. The hall was filled with members from 13 walking clubs. The event returned a profit of $500. It is believed the band was "Canbage Spire". A good, hot, sweaty time was had by all.
-o Take note the Federation Ball will be held on 16th Sept. at the Lane Cove Town Hall. This really is a bush dance, dress is casual to very informal and is usually good fun. The various Clubs organise and decorate their tables. Watch this space for further details.
+----
-o Fazeley Read is out of hospital and mending slowly and surely. To set the record straight Fazeley's accident happened when she was on foot and crossing a Pedestrian Ccossing. Maybe a motor bike is safer after all!
-o Sixty odd years ago when SBW was founded a young lad of 9 was living in Drummoyne. Now in 1988 the Club is reasonably well established and the young lad is a mature gentleman of 70. Happy birthday Jim Brown, congratulations on your three score and ten from all at The Sydney Bushwalker and from your many friends in SBW.
+===== Footnotes. =====
-o Congratulations to Sheila Binns our latest Honorary Member, see the report elsewhere in this issue.
-o Barbara Bruce after intensive French lessons has gone off walking to the Marquesas Islands. Can we hope for an evenly tanned Barbara to give domonstration of tradional island dancing complete with grass skirt and smile at the Club Rooms on her return?
+A Printing Instructional Day will be organised soon for all those aspiring inky devils - watch this space for further details.
-o Splendour Rock 1. A commercial pilot flying over Splendour Rock on:Sunday 24th April reported a small bushfire. The Water Board Ranger when contacted by 2-way radio reported that it was just the campfires of the 70 or so bushwalkers camped overnight before the sunrise ceremony.
-" Splendour Rock 2. The Blue Mountains RSL were impresed with the bushwalkers' Anzac Day activities.
+What you missed No.l. 32 happy people gathered at the Club Rooms to literally wrap-up the May edition of the Sydney Bushwalker, your magazine. It really is quite sociable to sit and chat as you collate, staple, wrap, gum and label each magazine. Next time why don't you come along.
-o Joy Hynes and Ian Debert returned from holidays in beautiful Victoria with the news that their car had been broken into and their valuables stolen. What does one do with cars left unattended whilst enjoying the bush? Any comments?
-o And talking of Victoria, in this issue we have a contribution from the Melbourne branch of the SBW. A report from the Canberra branch would be appreciated.
+What you missed No.2. The bush dance organised by the FBW on 13 May attracted 140 devotees of this form of exercise: a mixture of bush walking, jogging, and tap dancing. The hall was filled with members from 13 walking clubs. The event returned a profit of $500. It is believed the band was "Cambage Spire". A good, hot, sweaty time was had by all.
- On 24th September there will be a Coolana working bee plus bush dance at Woolaway.
-o A Custom Revived: Dinner before social meetings - third Wednesday each month. 15th June and 20th July we all gather at the MEKONG Restaurant, 64 Dalhousie Street, at 6.30 pm. Other venues to be announced.
+Take note the Federation Ball will be held on 16th Sept. at the Lane Cove Town Hall. This really is a bush dance, dress is casual to very informal and is usually good fun. The various Clubs organise and decorate their tables. Watch this space for further details.
-o July 20th - A 15 minute Video featuring "Walk Softly" (lent by Tasmanian Wilderness Society) to be folowed by Members Slides of their holiday trips, either in Australia or abroad.
-o July 27th - Club Auction.
+Fazeley Read is out of hospital and mending slowly and surely. To set the record straight Fazeley's accident happened when she was on foot and crossing a Pedestrian Crossing. Maybe a motor bike is safer after all!
-o ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS - see Page 7.
-**************
+Sixty odd years ago when SBW was founded a young lad of 9 was living in Drummoyne. Now in 1988 the Club is reasonably well established and the young lad is a mature gentleman of 70. Happy birthday Jim Brown, congratulations on your three score and ten from all at The Sydney Bushwalker and from your many friends in SBW.
+Congratulations to Sheila Binns our latest Honorary Member, see the report elsewhere in this issue.
+Barbara Bruce after intensive French lessons has gone off walking to the Marquesas Islands. Can we hope for an evenly tanned Barbara to give demonstration of traditional island dancing complete with grass skirt and smile at the Club Rooms on her return?
+Splendour Rock 1. A commercial pilot flying over Splendour Rock on Sunday 24th April reported a small bushfire. The Water Board Ranger when contacted by 2-way radio reported that it was just the campfires of the 70 or so bushwalkers camped overnight before the sunrise ceremony.
+Splendour Rock 2. The Blue Mountains RSL were impressed with the bushwalkers' Anzac Day activities.
+Joy Hynes and Ian Debert returned from holidays in beautiful Victoria with the news that their car had been broken into and their valuables stolen. What does one do with cars left unattended whilst enjoying the bush? Any comments?
+And talking of Victoria, in this issue we have a contribution from the Melbourne branch of the SBW. A report from the Canberra branch would be appreciated.
+On 24th September there will be a Coolana working bee plus bush dance at Woolaway.
+A Custom Revived: Dinner before social meetings - third Wednesday each month. 15th June and 20th July we all gather at the Mekong Restaurant, 64 Dalhousie Street, at 6.30 pm. Other venues to be announced.
+July 20th - A 15 minute Video featuring "Walk Softly" (lent by Tasmanian Wilderness Society) to be followed by Members Slides of their holiday trips, either in Australia or abroad.
+July 27th - Club Auction.
+Annual Subscriptions - see Page 7.
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