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-THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER
+====== The Sydney Bushwalker ======
 A Monthly Bulletin devoted to matters of interest to
 The Sydney Bush Walkers, 5 Hamilton Street, Sydney
-No 58 Price 3d. OCTOBER, 1939
+No 58 Price 3d.
-Editor: Dorothy Lawry\\ Business Manager: Brian Harvey\\
+===== October, 1939 =====
-Publication Staff: Misses Doreen Harris, Jessie Martin, Mary Stoddart; Messrs. Bill Mullins and Arthur Salmon.
-CONTENTS
+|**Editor**|Dorothy Lawry|
+|**Business Manager**|Brian Harvey|
+|**Publication Staff**|Misses Doreen Harris, Jessie Martin, Mary Stoddart; Messrs. Bill Mullins and Arthur Salmon.|
-|A Letter from the President  |  Page 1|
+===== Contents =====
-|Search and Rescue by M. Bacon  |  " 2|
-|Paddy's Advertisement   |  " 3|
+|A Letter from the President| |1|
-|The Cox and The Cow by "Mumbedah"  |  " 4|
+|Search and Rescue|M. Bacon|2|
-|Map Announcement - River Canoe Club of NSW  |  " 5|
+|Paddy's Advertisement| |3|
-|"The Voracious Vegetarian" - Reprinted.  |  " 5|
+|The Cox and The Cow|"Mumbedah"|4|
-|H.V. Leckie's Advertisement  |  " 6|
+|Map Announcement|River Canoe Club of NSW|5|
-|The "Tigers" Truck Trip by Clare Kinsella  |  " 7|
+|"The Voracious Vegetarian"|Reprinted|5|
-|Federation News  |  " 9|
+|H.V. Leckie's Advertisement| |6|
-|Editor's Note  |  " 10|
+|The "Tigers" Truck Trip|Clare Kinsella|7|
-|"Highlights" - Sponsored by Stephenson & Bird  |  " 11|
+|Federation News| |9|
-|At Our Own Meeting  |  " 13|
+|Editor's Note| |10|
-|Club Gossip  |  " 14|
+|"Highlights"|Sponsored by Stephenson & Bird|11|
+|At Our Own Meeting| |13|
+|Club Gossip| |14|
 ===== A Letter from the President =====
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 During the twelve years of its existence, The Sydney Bush Walkers has weathered many internal storms; let us, by our united efforts, make sure that this greater external storm will be weathered also.
-RICHARD CROKER
+Richard Croker
 ===== Search and Rescue =====
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 by M. Bacon.
-The N.S.W. Federation of Bushwalking Clubs combined much pleasure with the business of training its members in rescue practice on the weekend of September 9th and lOth, in the Springwood-Nepean district.
+The N.S.W. Federation of Bushwalking Clubs combined much pleasure with the business of training its members in rescue practice on the weekend of September 9th and 10th, in the Springwood-Nepean district.
 Seven parties set out on Saturday each to get "lost" in their own section.  After a reasonable delay, seven parties set out to locate the "lost" parties and gain the decorated leather "scalp".  Before it could be legally taken the condition of the lost party had to be treated.  You can imagine Ron
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 It was a sunny day, and it seemed as if every bird in the valley had foregathered in the dappled sunlight to sing us along the way.  Every nook and bush and tree seemed to hold a feathered choir, some fluting, some whistling, some warbling, and all in sweetest mood.  Even the wattle birds, mouthing noisy gutterals in the gum-tops, and the green keets that screeched across the hills, vied one with another in keeping attune with the songbirds' symphony.
-===== Edited to here (David) 25 Dec 2014 =====
+===== "Highlights" =====
-"HIGHLIGHTS"
+==== On colour blindness ====
-Sponsored by
+"It is interesting to find that most flowers which depend on birds for pollination are red, while pure red is a very rare colour among insect-fertilised flowers.
-STEPHENSON & BIRD
-Opticians, Optometrists and Orthopists. 2 Martin Place, Sydney.
+We know from experiment that bees are incapable of seeing 'red', while the eyes of birds are blind to blues, but are stimulated by red, so that the flower colours are what we should expect."
- 'Phones: B 1438 Morris M. Stephenson,
- XB 44o7 A.S. T.C. (Dip.Opt) F.I.u,
+The above statement is quoted verbatim from H.G.Wells, and I think it requires modification.  The birds referred to are honey-eaters, but many other birds are certainly excluded.  For instance, you have all remarked the Satin Bower Bird and its preference for blue.
-.
-ON COLOUR BLINDNESS
+By the way, statistics show that 4% of all males (European) are colour-blind, and while this does not affect the individuals very much, they should be aware of their idiosyncracy.  It means that there are probably six or eight colour-blind males in the club and probably each and every one of them is ignorant of the fact.  Are you one? asks Morris Stephenson.
-"It is interesting to find that most flowers which depend on birds for pollination are red, while pure red is a very rare colour among insect- fertilised flowers,
-We know from experiment that bees are incapable of seeing 'red', while th eyesof birds are blind to blues, but are stimulated by red, so that the flo r :lours are what we should expect,"
+==== On Bushwalking ====
-The above statement is quoted verbatim from H.G.Wells, and I think it requires modification. The birds referred to are honey-eaters, but many
-other birds are certainly excluded. For instance, you have all remarked the Satin Bower Bird and its preference for blue,
+As not one of our new or prospective members has yet supplied us with any Highlights on Bushwalking for this issue, the Editor turns the spotlight on the official trip of the last weekend in August.  There certainly were some highlights to that walk!  It was listed to go from Wondabyne to Spencer, but when the leader learned how seldom the ferry ran from Spencer down the Hawkesbury River to Brooklyn, he changed it to an exploration of Kariong Peninsula, Wondabyne to Wondabyne, and went up there the previous weekend to scout out his route.
-By the way statistics show that 4% of all males (European) are colorblind, and while this does not affect the individuals very much, they should be aware of their idiosyncracy: It means that there are probably six or eight colour-blind males in the club and probably each and everyone of them is ignorant of the fact. Are you one? asks Morris Stephenson.
-,141NI.Orprnyre.
+There were about eighteen in the party which set off on the Saturday to enjoy the splendid wildflowers and magnificent views of Kariong Peninsula, and, in addition, one girl had arranged to join them on the Sunday - at a specified time and place, the route to which had been described by the leader. --- "You turn your back on Mullet Creek and follow the ridge at the
-ON BUS HWALKING
-As not one of our new or prospective members has yet supplied us with any Highlights on Bushwalking for this issue, the Editor turns the spotlight on the official trip of the last weekend in August. There certainly were
-some highlights to that walk: It was listed to go from Wondatyne to Spencer, but when the leader learned how seldom the ferry ran from Spencer down the Hawkesbury River to Brooklyn, he changed it to an exploration of Kariong Peninsula, Wondabyne to Wondabyne, and went up there the previous weekend to scout out his route.
-There were about eighteen in the party which set off on the Saturday
-to enjoy the splendid wildflowers and magnificent views of Kariong Peninsula; and, in addition, one girl had arranged to join them on the Sunday - at a specified time and place, the route to which had been described by the leader.---"You turn your back on Mullet Greek and follow the ridge at the
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 back of the Station till --- then --- etc. etc."
-The train crawled across the Hawkesbury River Bridge, then thundered on northwards; the party prepared to alight at the small, unattended platform that constituted Wondabyne Station - but the train did not stop, The station had been moved about half-a--mile to the North, to a more convenient site near a stone quarry!
-The leader explains that it was dark when he was at Wondabyne the previous weekend and he did not notice that the station was not in its usual spot 1 I Still, that did not help the girl who spent the Sunday alone in the bush, No, they did not "find the spot" where she would wait for them; the party was too busy having adventures.
+The train crawled across the Hawkesbury River Bridge, then thundered on northwards; the party prepared to alight at the small, unattended platform that constituted Wondabyne Station - but the train did not stop.  The station had been moved about half-a-mile to the North, to a more convenient site near a stone quarry!
-Although it was only August, from one point they counted the smokes of elevenpush fires, and it the middle of the night they had to get up and fight a bushf ire that was threatening their camp. On Sunday one section of their route crossed an area they had seen the day before green, smiling, and ablaze with wildflowers. Now, alas, it was a blackened desolation, And this was only August!
-Then one of the boys !frayed from the party and the other ninety and nine --- sorry, seventeen only - were delayed for quite a long time till the lost sheep was found and returned to the fold.
+The leader explains that it was dark when he was at Wondabyne the previous weekend and he did not notice that the station was not in its usual spot!!  Still, that did not help the girl who spent the Sunday alone in the bush.  No, they did not "find the spot" where she would wait for them; the party was too busy having adventures.
-One of the girls provided the next excitement by having a fall, and the leader held his breath, and all the men of the party had secret palpitations, until it was clear that she was not injured and would not need to be carried back to the railway,
-By the time the leader had recovered from the shock of a second girl going sprawling - again without any serious damage being done - he had decided that his party was quite large enough without collecting another girl; and anyway it was after the arranged time of meeting and they were nowhere near the spot, and she might not have started out; and if she had she was quite capable of looking after herself -- And so she was, Really he is a very good and careful leader, but it certainly is a little hard on bushwalkers when stations go roaming round the countryside
+Although it was only August, from one point they counted the smokes of eleven bushfires, and in the middle of the night they had to get up and fight a bushfire that was threatening their camp.  On Sunday one section of their route crossed an area they had seen the day before green, smiling, and ablaze with wildflowers.  Now, alas, it was a blackened desolation.  And this was only August!
+Then one of the boys strayed from the party and the other ninety and nine - sorry, seventeen only - were delayed for quite a long time till the lost sheep was found and returned to the fold.
+One of the girls provided the next excitement by having a fall, and the leader held his breath, and all the men of the party had secret palpitations, until it was clear that she was not injured and would not need to be carried back to the railway.
+By the time the leader had recovered from the shock of a second girl going sprawling - again without any serious damage being done - he had decided that his party was quite large enough without collecting another girl; and anyway it was after the arranged time of meeting and they were nowhere near the spot, and she might not have started out; and if she had she was quite capable of looking after herself -- And so she was.  Really he is a very good and careful leader, but it certainly is a little hard on bushwalkers when stations go roaming round the countryside!
 Now, which of you readers can tell us a better bushwalking story than that?
 Don't be shy, and don't put off writing it till next year; do it now, and hand it to the Editor next Friday night - or post it, care of the Club.
-Remember, this is your Club Magazine,
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+Remember, this is **your** Club Magazine.
-AT OUR OWN MEETING
-The Half Yearly General Meeting was held on September 8th. , The members present were pleased to welcome the following new members i Misses Doris
+===== At our own Meeting =====
-Young and Edna Stretton and Mehsrs. Fred i Kennedy, Jack ManSon and Thomas
+The Half Yearly General Meeting was held on September 8th.  The members present were pleased to welcome the following new members, Misses Doris Young and Edna Stretton and Messrs. Fred. Kennedy, Jack Manson and Thomas Ramsay.
-Ramsay.
-It was announced that Audtey LuMSden had been appointed to the new office of "Keeper of Timetables" iAd everyone waS asked to co-operate by supplying her with inforMation l'egattling the lesser khaWn services.
+It was announced that Audrey Lumsden had been appointed to the new office of "Keeper of Timetables".  And everyone was asked to co-operate by supplying her with information regarding the lesser known services.
 One interesting item from the correspondence was that the Federation has adopted the suggestion made at the recent Conference and Council has changed its meeting night from the fourth Friday to the third Tuesday for an experimental period of three months.
-From the Federation report we learned that, during the recent Federation Conference, it was suggested that a Federation Annual Reunion be held, so that the members of the various Federated Clubs could have the opportunity of meeting each other. After discussion, it was decided that our Delegates be informed that this Club does not support the suggestion.
-Three motions were brought forward to maim alterations to the Constitution. It was proposed by Tom Herbert that an addition be made in the clause covering the rejection of prospective members. This motion was carried and Section 5, Sub-section (h) of the Constitution now reads:-
+From the Federation report we learned that, during the recent Federation Conference, it was suggested that a Federation Annual Reunion be held, so that the members of the various Federated Clubs could have the opportunity of meeting each other.  After discussion, it was decided that our Delegates be informed that this Club does not support the suggestion.
-"Section 5 Sub-section (h) (as altered 8/9/39)
-On completion of the foregoing requirements and subject to sub-clause (b) the prospective member's name shall be submitted to the Committee which may elect, defer for not more than (2) months, or reject him as it thinks fit. No prospective member shall be rejected until the nominator has been called upon to give his report in terms of sub-section (1). If the prospective member is not elected the amounts referred to in sub-clause (g) shall be refunded."
+Three motions were brought forward to make alterations to the Constitution.  It was proposed by Tom Herbert that an addition be made in the clause covering the rejection of prospective members.  This motion was carried and Section 5, Sub-section (h) of the Constitution now reads:-
-The other two motions, proposed by Jack Debert and Alex. Colley reapectively were lost.
-The prospects of holding a Bushwalker Concert were discussed, and the Social Secretary(tdna Garrad) reported that the Concert Committee was finding considerable difficulty in securing a suitable site for an outdoor concert. It was moved by "Mouldy" Harrison, that the Concert as held in the past, be not held this year, and the motion was carried, A small entertainment may be held in the club room later in the year.
+> "**Section 5 Sub-section (h) (as altered 8/9/39)**
-Apropos of the foregoing, Frank Duncan suggested that the Club hold two
-* Annual Reunions, one for members only, as usual, the other to take the form of a campfire entertainment, to be held at a place easily accessible by
+> On completion of the foregoing requirements and subject to sub-clause (b) the prospective member's name shall be submitted to the Committee which may elect, defer for not more than (2) months, or reject him as it thinks fit.  No prospective member shall be rejected until the nominator has been called upon to give his report in terms of sub-section (f).  If the prospective member is not elected the amounts referred to in sub-clause (g) shall be refunded."
-road, to which all members, prospective members and friends could be invited., The meeting accepted the suggestion, and the Social Committee will go itto the matter fully and make a report at a later date.
-Before the meeting closed the President spoke briefly regarding the 4> present unsettled conditions in the world and urged members to continue
+The other two motions, proposed by Jack Debert and Alex. Colley respectively were lost.
- to bushwalk whenever possible and to carry on the Club and its traditions in spite of the difficulties we would all have to face during the troublesome times ahead.
-CLUB GOSSIP
+The prospects of holding a Bushwalker Concert were discussed, and the Social Secretary (Edna Garrad) reported that the Concert Committee was finding considerable difficulty in securing a suitable site for an outdoor concert.  It was moved by "Mouldy" Harrison, that the Concert as held in the past, be not held this year, and the motion was carried.  A small entertainment may be held in the club room later in the year.
-Here is some more news of our own "Legion of the Lost". Early in September there were great doings up in Brisbane; our old pall Les. Douglas, and Miss Lorna Mackay were married, and Wal. Roots was the bestman.
-' Another of our members who will be a married man by the time you read this is Jim. Muir, who is making a special trip to Sydney from Coolamon for his wedding on September 30th to Miss Marguerite Aurousseau.
+Apropos of the foregoing, Frank Duncan suggested that the Club hold two Annual Reunions, one for members only, as usual, the other to take the form of a campfire entertainment, to be held at a place easily accessible by road, to which all members, prospective members and friends could be invited.  The meeting accepted the suggestion, and the Social Committee will go into the matter fully and make a report at a later date.
-For nearly a month now, Rita Hundt has been wearing a lovely diamond ring. Yes, Cupid at work again; and the lucky man is Mr. Tom Barnes, not yet a fully fledged walker, but Rita told us she met him while spending holidays at Blatches' at Colovale.
+Before the meeting closed the President spoke briefly regarding the present unsettled conditions in the world and urged members to continue to bushwalk whenever possible and to carry on the Club and its traditions in spite of the difficulties we would all have to face during the troublesome times ahead.
+===== Club Gossip =====
+Here is some more news of our own "Legion of the Lost".  Early in September there were great doings up in Brisbane; our old pal, Les. Douglas, and Miss Lorna Mackay were married, and Wal. Roots was the best man.
+Another of our members who will be a married man by the time you read this is Jim. Muir, who is making a special trip to Sydney from Coolamon for his wedding on September 30th to Miss Marguerite Aurousseau.
+For nearly a month now, Rita Hundt has been wearing a lovely diamond ring.  Yes, Cupid at work again; and the lucky man is Mr. Tom Barnes, not yet a fully fledged walker, but Rita told us she met him while spending holidays at Blatches' at Colo Vale.
 On behalf of all their bushwalker friends, we wish them all -- Good Walking, Good Camping, and the Best of Luck always!
-Tinter is over and summer is just round the corner. It must be!
-Wiff Knight is back in Sydney. Have you seen his photos of his Queensland trip yet? He took a lot, and some of them illustrate the trip which he has written up for our November issue.
+Winter is over and summer is just round the corner.  It must be!
-Just as we were going to press Hubert, the Wireless Bird, came flying
+Wiff Knight is back in Sydney.  Have you seen his photos of his Queensland trip yet?  He took a lot, and some of them illustrate the trip which he has written up for our November issue.
-in with word that young Bernadette Carlon was married at Parkes about a fortnight ago to Mr. Fred Allen. Lucky chap! Cheerio, and best wishes from all the Bushwalkers, Bernadette!
-Look out! Here comes a Ripley ripple to rock the boat! From certain reports in this issue of this magazine you will gather that at least one Club member had received the impression that the Federation meetings were definitely changed from fourth Fridays to third Tuesdays as a three-months' experiment. Where this impression came from, or how it was received, is the problem we ask Sherlock Holmes, or Mr.Ripley, or you to solve. For a starting point we tell you the impression of all the Club's delegates, who, of course, helped to make the decision. They all gathered that the night was to be
+Just as we were going to press Hubert, the Wireless Bird, came flying in with word that young Bernadette Carlon was married at Parkes about a fortnight ago to Mr. Fred Allen.  Lucky chap!  Cheerio, and best wishes from all the Bushwalkers, Bernadette!
-ak changed IF a suitable room could be securedr and they expected to be notified
- of the next meeting. Whether or not the censor thought the notice would be
+Look out!  Here comes a Ripley ripple to rock the boat!  From certain reports in this issue of this magazine you will gather that at least one Club member had received the impression that the Federation meetings were definitely changed from fourth Fridays to third Tuesdays as a three-months' experiment.  Where this impression came from, or how it was received, is the problem we ask Sherlock Holmes, or Mr. Ripley, or you to solve. For a starting point we tell you the impression of all the Club's delegates, who, of course, helped to make the decision. They all gathered that the night was to be changed **if** a suitable room could be secured, and they expected to be notified
- of value to the enemy is not known, but it is a matter of history that on the third Tuesday in Septembe'ri 1939, the Federation held a meeting at (we had better not tell you where) and the Sydney Bush Walkers were conspicuous by their complete absence!
+ of the next meeting.  Whether or not the censor thought the notice would be of value to the enemy is not known, but it is a matter of history that on the third Tuesday in September, 1939, the Federation held a meeting at (we had better not tell you where) and the Sydney Bush Walkers were conspicuous by their complete absence!