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The Club Album, came under discussion and it was decided that, instead of further enlarging the present one, the Photographic Committee be instructed to start Vol. 2 --- Or should it be Vol.3? The original Club Album went right into the discard, didn't it? | The Club Album, came under discussion and it was decided that, instead of further enlarging the present one, the Photographic Committee be instructed to start Vol. 2 --- Or should it be Vol.3? The original Club Album went right into the discard, didn't it? | ||
- | Dunc was given yet another job. She was appointed a Sub-committee to keep in touch with members on service and see that letters are sent forward to them regularly from their fellow-members. When you see pencil and paper circulating round the club room in future, you won't automatically tell yourself, "Ah, we are writing, to the Rootses again"; | + | Dunc was given yet another job. She was appointed a Sub-committee to keep in touch with members on service and see that letters are sent forward to them regularly from their fellow-members. When you see pencil and paper circulating round the club room in future, you won't automatically tell yourself, "Ah, we are writing, to the Rootses again"; |
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Len who was always a beggar for little surprises, produced a pea rifle from his over-sized pack, and, pinning some home-made bulls-eye targets on adjacent trees proceeded to demonstrate his skill as a marksman. The girls, too, were interested, and, when they had tried shutting the proper eye, gave every promise of becoming good shots after a lot of practice! | Len who was always a beggar for little surprises, produced a pea rifle from his over-sized pack, and, pinning some home-made bulls-eye targets on adjacent trees proceeded to demonstrate his skill as a marksman. The girls, too, were interested, and, when they had tried shutting the proper eye, gave every promise of becoming good shots after a lot of practice! | ||
- | We fired at everythingt | + | We fired at everything |
Retreat was the only alternative; | Retreat was the only alternative; | ||
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===== New Members ===== | ===== New Members ===== | ||
- | Extracted without permission, but with acknowledgments, | + | Extracted without permission, but with acknowledgments, |
- | .... So it will always be. The memories of those early trips when we went hungry or thisty, when the morning frost found the openings in our blankets and robbed us of much needed sleep, or when the rain came through, or under the badly pitched tent, will always be with us as we come back for more. | + | .... So it will always be. The memories of those early trips when we went hungry or thirsty, when the morning frost found the openings in our blankets and robbed us of much needed sleep, or when the rain came through, or under the badly pitched tent, will always be with us as we come back for more. |
.... And so it is, today, that when new members arrive, it is not the member' | .... And so it is, today, that when new members arrive, it is not the member' | ||
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===== Sports Carnival 1940 ===== | ===== Sports Carnival 1940 ===== | ||
- | Thanks to the good offices of Geoff Parker, the Sports Carnival was held again this year at " | + | Thanks to the good offices of Geoff Parker, the Sports Carnival was held again this year at " |
On Saturday night we gathered around a typical Bill Henley campfire and, after a bright and cheery evening, christened the new " | On Saturday night we gathered around a typical Bill Henley campfire and, after a bright and cheery evening, christened the new " | ||
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Then it was that there happened the most terrible thing, and even now I shudder to think how narrow was our escape! | Then it was that there happened the most terrible thing, and even now I shudder to think how narrow was our escape! | ||
- | We bad doffed our skirts, and skipped joyfully over the sands clad only in dark gym bloomers - shoes and stockings, long-sleeved blouses and hats as well; of course. The skirts were parked behind a convenient sandhill. | + | We had doffed our skirts, and skipped joyfully over the sands clad only in dark gym bloomers - shoes and stockings, long-sleeved blouses and hats as well; of course. The skirts were parked behind a convenient sandhill. |
We spend a delightful afternoon, but when we returned - horrors! The skirts had gone! Of merciful Providence, were there ever four maids in such a ghastly position? Esther, it is true, had on military breeks, but even she turned ten shades of green at the thought of going home without a skirt. She got considerably more radical in her later years, but she was only pale pink then, and to go home in breeches - - - - (the dashes illustrate the horror no words can express). | We spend a delightful afternoon, but when we returned - horrors! The skirts had gone! Of merciful Providence, were there ever four maids in such a ghastly position? Esther, it is true, had on military breeks, but even she turned ten shades of green at the thought of going home without a skirt. She got considerably more radical in her later years, but she was only pale pink then, and to go home in breeches - - - - (the dashes illustrate the horror no words can express). |
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