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 The extraordinary number of rock paintings and carvings in New South Wales, especially in the Sydney district, is of great interest to scientists, bush walkers, and the public, to the latter if only as a medium for vandalism and the writing of engraving of their names and date of visit.
-These rock drawings are records of incidents in hunting, of the natural species which figured as totems of the various clans constituting a trie, and of spiritual culture-heroes who created the people and gave to them their customs, weapons and other objects employed; evolved their kinship and social organisation, their laws and rites, and to whom appeal is made in ceremonies for abundant food. Thus the carvings form sites in many cases at which initiation, totemic, and historical ceremonies were held, and are an important record of the ritual life of the aborigines. In addition, they are valuable examples of aboriginal art.
+These rock drawings are records of incidents in hunting, of the natural species which figured as totems of the various clans constituting a tribe, and of spiritual culture-heroes who created the people and gave to them their customs, weapons and other objects employed; evolved their kinship and social organisation, their laws and rites, and to whom appeal is made in ceremonies for abundant food. Thus the carvings form sites in many cases at which initiation, totemic, and historical ceremonies were held, and are an important record of the ritual life of the aborigines. In addition, they are valuable examples of aboriginal art.
-Not much actual research has been carried out in this important field of local anthropology and before study of them can be of a comprehensive nature it is essential that the location of all Carvings and paintings be accurately plotted on maps; 8 scheme is now in hand whereby it is hoped that this work will be carried out.
+Not much actual research has been carried out in this important field of local anthropology and before study of them can be of a comprehensive nature it is essential that the location of all Carvings and paintings be accurately plotted on maps; A scheme is now in hand whereby it is hoped that this work will be carried out.
-A great deal of mutilation and destruction of carvings and paintings has taken place. I know of groups from which figures have been cut out of the rock surface and taken away. The spread of settlement on the outskirts of the city is one of the most serious factors militating against their preservation; in practically all instances where homes have been built near groups of carvings and paintings the occupants, and especially their children, have added lines, recut the engravings, written and carved their names over them, and otherwise defaced the work of the aborigines. Instead of committing such vandalism people who live near such valuable historical relics should appoint themselves guardians and take care that no one is allowed to tamper with them. Other people inconvenience themselves by a long and sometimes uncomfortable journey to sec rock paintings but, after viewing them, deliberately deface the drawings, ignoring the fact that more people will visit the site after them.
+A great deal of mutilation and destruction of carvings and paintings has taken place. I know of groups from which figures have been cut out of the rock surface and taken away. The spread of settlement on the outskirts of the city is one of the most serious factors militating against their preservation; in practically all instances where homes have been built near groups of carvings and paintings the occupants, and especially their children, have added lines, re-cut the engravings, written and carved their names over them, and otherwise defaced the work of the aborigines. Instead of committing such vandalism people who live near such valuable historical relics should appoint themselves guardians and take care that no one is allowed to tamper with them. Other people inconvenience themselves by a long and sometimes uncomfortable journey to see rock paintings but, after viewing them, deliberately deface the drawings, ignoring the fact that more people will visit the site after them.
 All caves containing paintings should have a steel wire grille erected to close the entrance to the cave, but still permitting visitors to see the paintings. It is the aim of the Australian Museum to have all cave paintings in New South Wales protected in this manner.
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 =====Hymn of hate=====
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-By Graco Edg6combc,.
+By Grace Edgecombe
-Oh, how I hate the race of packs; I'd like to hit mine with an a;i:e. I'd like to bust it right in two,
-Or beet it till it's black and blue! I'd like to fling it in the sea, Or jump upon it, savagely
+Oh, how I hate the race of packs;\\
-How dare it sit and mock at me, Knowing that it must carried be?
+I'd like to hit mine with an axe.\\
-How dare it grin, with beastly bulge, And naught but ribald mirth divulge? And does it feed upon the air, That it grows daily heavier? Or slyly suck my puuy
+I'd like to bust it right in two,\\
-And take my breadth, an taco but length?
+Or beet it till it's black and blue!
-Just watch it try tu break my neck, Using me as a lalidirg-do c:,g
+\\I'd like to fling it in the sea,
-Pompous pincushion Loeh3omc4 lump! I vow you neter again I'll hump
+\\Or jump upon it, savagely!\\
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+How dare it sit and mock at me,\\
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+Knowing that it must carried be?\\
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+How dare it grin, with beastly bulge,\\
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+And naught but ribald mirth divulge?\\
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+And does it feed upon the air,\\
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+That it grows daily heavier?\\
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+Or slyly suck my puny strength\\
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+And take my breadth, and leave but length?\\
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+Just watch it try to break my neck,\\
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+Using me as a landing-deck\\
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+Pompous pincushion! Loathsome lump!\\
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+I vow you ne'er again I'll hump\\
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-A POINT TO REMEEBER
+**A POINT TO REMEMBER**
-If you carry an iron-frame rucksack, remember to take it off before trying
+If you carry an iron-frame rucksack, remember to take it off before trying to get an accurate reading with a prismatic compass. Experiments have shown that an iron frame on your back would alter the compass reading by as much as three degrees.
-to get an accurate reading with a prismatic compass. Experiments have shown that an iron frame on your back would alter the compass-reading by as much as three
-degrees.
+For the ordinary, rough and ready compass reading needed to follow a route, you can forget about the pull on your compass caused by your pack
-For the ordinary, rough and ready compass-reading needed to follow a route, you can forget about the pull on your compass caused by your pack
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+=====From here there and everywhere=====
-FROM HERT,!_,_ THEL.F.E A-NJ), EVERYIkHER.E._
-In a booklet called - "Organised One-day, Week-end and Vacation Hiking Trips
+In a booklet called "Organised One day, Weekend and Vacation Hiking Trips in North-eastern States" - published by The Hiking Trips Bureau of Hokokus, New Jersey, U.S.A., we found the following quotation from the bulletin of an inland (U.S.A.) hiking club:
-in North-eastern States" - published by The Hiking Trips Bureau of Hokokus, New Jersey, U.S.A., we found the following quotation from the bulletin of an inland (U.S.A.) hiking club:
-"We are a simple organization. Simple Simon is our patron saint. We are simply a hiking club taking simple little walks, and have thirty committees to direct this activity."
+"We are a simple organization. Simple Simon is our patron saint. We are simply a hiking club taking simple little walks, **and have thirty committees to direct this activity.**"
-....And we thought we were quite a club!. The S.B.W. would hardly be mentioned amongst the "also rans"9 even if the items we have pushed off onto the Federation were included.
-By the way, the Federation's Search & Rescue Section is having a practice on the week-end 13th/14th August. It should he good fun, so book those dates Jack Debert has been seeking volunteers to get "lost" with him. If you prefer
+And we thought we were quite a club!. The S.B.W. would hardly be mentioned amongst the "also rans", even if the items we have pushed off onto the Federation were included.
-to be a searcher, there will be plenty of SJOpe for you. If you don't come on the stunt, you MAY have to turn out during the follo)Ang week to search for the searchers. The practice won't be held in George Street.
-Congratulations to the Polishing Committee of the C.M.W.! We have just been
+By the way, the Federation's Search & Rescue Section is having a practice on the weekend 13th/14th August. It should be good fun, so book those dates. Jack Debert has been seeking volunteers to get "lost" with him. If you prefer to be a searcher, there will be plenty of scope for you. If you don't come on the stunt, you may have to turn out during the following week to search for the searchers. The practice won't be held in George Street.
-enjoying the June issue of their magazine - "Into the Blue"._ It is a 24-page issue of entertaining articles in which the reader can roam the world, and all the work of publication was done voluntarily by their own members!
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+Congratulations to the Publishing Committee of the C.M.W.! We have just been enjoying the June issue of their magazine - "Into the Blue". It is a 24-page issue of entertaining articles in which the reader can roam the world, and all the work of publication was done voluntarily by their own members!
-Here's good news for the mountaineers and ski-ers amongst us! The June,1938, number of the "New Zealand Alpine Journal" has just been received. As usdal, it is profusely illustrated with magnificent photos, as well as being full of records of First Ascents -- or so it seems to a mere walker.
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+Here's good news for the mountaineers and skiers amongst us! The June, 1938, number of the "New Zealand Alpine Journal" has just been received. As usual, it is profusely illustrated with magnificent photos, as well as being full of records of First Ascents or so it seems to a mere walker.
-Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends; Where roll'd the ocean, thereon was his home;
-Where a blue sky, a glowing clime, extends,
+Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends;\\
-He had the passion and the power to roam,
+Where roll'd the ocean, thereon was his home;\\
-Were unto him companionship; they spake
+Where a blue sky, a glowing clime, extends,\\
-A mutual language, clearer than the tome
+He had the passion and the power to roam,\\
-Of his land's tongue, which he would oft forsake For Nature's pages glassed by sunbeams on the lake.
+Were unto him companionship; they spake\\
--- Byron.
+A mutual language, clearer than the tome\\
-When I look at those trees growing right from the ground, I seem to feel something mysterious which comes from the trees and from the mother earth herself. And I seem to be living in them and they in me and with me. I do not know whether this communion could be called spiritual or not. I have no time to call it anything. I am just satisfied. Susuki of Japan.
+Of his land's tongue, which he would oft forsake\\
-CLUB GOSSIP
+For Nature's pages glassed by sunbeams on the lake.\\
+- Byron.
+When I look at those trees growing right from the ground, I seem to feel something mysterious which comes from the trees and from the mother earth herself. And I seem to be living in them and they in me and with me. I do not know whether this communion could be called spiritual or not. I have no time to call it anything. I am just satisfied.
+Susuki of Japan.
+=====Club gossip=====
 By "Sunlight".
-Who was it said, "The pack is mightier than the poet"? We hopehe was wrong - but Grace has disappeared rather suddenly ... Oh, some of her friends say they have had letters; she is teaching in a girls' school at Tamworth. Sounds rather like going into a convent to keep a vow, doesn't it? I do hope that the call
+Who was it said, "The pack is mightier than the poet"? We hope he was wrong - but Grace has disappeared rather suddenly. Oh, some of her friends say they have had letters; she is teaching in a girls' school at Tamworth. Sounds rather like going into a convent to keep a vow, doesn't it? I do hope that the call of the surrounding hills will be so strong she will just **have** to shoulder her pack and go off geologising. By the way, anyone else who may be thinking of departing to teach the young should take Grace's friendly warning- Don't let your girl friends sew name-tags on your pyjamas, unless you watch them all the time!
-of the surrounding hills will be so strong she will just have to shoulder her pack and go off geologising. By the way, anyone else who may be thinking of departing to teech the young should take Grace's friendly warning- Don't let your girl friends sew name-tags on your pyjam-s, unless you watch them all the time!
-Our Hon.Historian, Charlie Pryde, is starting to dig back into local history
+Our Hon.Historian, Charlie Pryde, is starting to dig back into local history far beyond the foundation of the S.B.W. He is now wanting to form a Rock Carving Section (no, it will have nothing at all in common with the Rock Climbing Section, except that both are formed of members of the S.B,W). Everyone who is really interested in aboriginal rock carvings for their own sake (and also all those who think a study of the carvings would be a good excuse for plenty of not too energetic weekends) should get in touch with Charlie for details. There is a lot of interesting work to be done in this direction, and it has real scientific value, too.
-far beyond the foundation of the S.B.W. He is now wanting to form e Rock Carving Section (no, it will have nothing at all in common with the Rock Climbing Section, except that both are formed of members of the 3.13,W0). Everyone who is really interested in aboriginal rock carvngs for their own sake (and also all those
-who think a study of the carvings would be a good excuse for plenty of not-tooenergetic week-ends) should get in touch with Charlie for details. There is a lot
+Were you at the Stunt Evening at the Club on Friday, May 27th? It was a new idea of the Social Committee, and a great success. As usual, Ray Bean excelled as an entertainer, and his stunt won the "most astounding prize" of - a bag of marbles.
-of interesting work to be done in this direction, and it has real scientific value,
-too:
+Another very enjoyable entertainment arranged by the Social Committee, and supported by fifty-four members and friends, was a "gods-party" to "George & Margaret" on Wednesday, June 15th. The comedy was most amusing and, of course, the company excellent, so we all had a very happy evening.
-Were you at the Stunt Evening at the Club on Friday, May 27th? It wes a new idea of the Social Committee, and a great success. As usual, Ray Bean excelled as an entertainer, and his stunt won the "most astounding prize" of - a bag of marbles.
-Another very enjoyable entertainment arranged by the Social Committee, and supported by fifty-four members and friends, was a "gods-party" to "George & Margaret" on Wednesday, June 15th. The comedy was most amusing and, of course,
-the company exvellent, so we all had a very happy evening.
 The next offering from the Social Committee is the first Dance of the season, which is to be held on June 29th, and thcy are hinting that they have something unusual for our entertainment. By the time you read this, you will know a lot
 more about it than I can tell you now.