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- | THE SYDNEY. BUSHWALKER | + | =====The Sydney Bushwalker===== |
- | A Monthly Bulletin devoted to matters of interest to The Sydncy | + | |
- | 1Jo.132 DECEMBER | + | A Monthly Bulletin devoted to matters of interest to The Sydney |
- | Editor: R Kirkby | + | |
- | Assist@ | + | ====No.132 December |
- | Bus Manager Peggy Bransdon | + | |
- | CONTENTS | + | |**Editor**|R Kirkby| |
- | + | |**Assistant Editor**|Dorothy Brigden| | |
- | Gordon | + | |**Business |
- | " | + | |**Production**|Yvonne Rolfe| |
- | Rockclimbing in the Rain . 00 Paul Barnes 4 | + | |**Production Assistant**|Kath |
- | Night Must Fall 080 000 Prolix 6 | + | |**Sales |
- | Night Vigil 0 00 Ron Knightley 7 | + | |
- | A Home, Sweet Home - 000 *00 Bill Mullins 9 | + | =====Contents===== |
- | Smile, Damn you, Smile 1,4I* 4** Les Harper 10 | + | |
- | Goodmans Advertisement 000 000 000 000 11 | + | | | |Page| |
- | News from the Boys . .. Geoff Parker & | + | |Gordon| | 1| |
- | Rob Morrison 11 | + | |" |
- | Wotcherthink? | + | |Rockclimbing in the Rain|Paul Barnes| 4| |
- | Mr. F. Pallin Speaking | + | |Night Must Fall|Prolix| 6| |
+ | |Night Vigil|Ron Knightley| 7| | ||
+ | |A Home, Sweet Home|Bill Mullins| 9| | ||
+ | |Smile, Damn you, Smile|Les Harper|10| | ||
+ | |News from the Boys|Geoff Parker & Rob Morrison|11| | ||
+ | |Wotcherthink? | ||
+ | |Mr. F. Pallin Speaking| |14| | ||
+ | |Club Gossip| |16| | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Advertisements===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | |Bill Mullins| 9| | ||
+ | |Goodmans|11| | ||
===== Gordon Smith ===== | ===== Gordon Smith ===== | ||
- | After months. of uncertainty the news that we feared has come through. Gordon died in Borneo in March this year. Many of those near him felt, perhaps, that he would not come back. We knew that he would be in the forefront in the face of danger and oppression. | + | After months of uncertainty the news that we feared has come through. Gordon died in Borneo in March this year. Many of those near him felt, perhaps, that he would not come back. We knew that he would be in the forefront in the face of danger and oppression. |
- | Gordon would have hated a eulogy, so we shall give only a simple | + | Gordon would have hated a eulogy, so we shall give only a simple |
He started walking as a track walker in the NSW Walking Club which he joined in 1921. In 1922 he won the first of his many long distance championships. Before he enlisted he held nearly all the Australian long-distance records, including the 12 hour record (66 miles) and the 50 mile record (8 hrs 52min) and the 24 hour record (114 miles). He was a foundation member of the SBW, though even before this he had done some long road and bush walks. In 1929 he met Max Gentle on the mountains train and decided to go with him to attempt a traverse of the Gangerang. They were the first walkers to do this now popular trip and the pass from Kanangra Tops to the Gangerang is named after Gordon. In February 1931 these two were the first walkers to do the Colo, probably the roughest river in Australia. | He started walking as a track walker in the NSW Walking Club which he joined in 1921. In 1922 he won the first of his many long distance championships. Before he enlisted he held nearly all the Australian long-distance records, including the 12 hour record (66 miles) and the 50 mile record (8 hrs 52min) and the 24 hour record (114 miles). He was a foundation member of the SBW, though even before this he had done some long road and bush walks. In 1929 he met Max Gentle on the mountains train and decided to go with him to attempt a traverse of the Gangerang. They were the first walkers to do this now popular trip and the pass from Kanangra Tops to the Gangerang is named after Gordon. In February 1931 these two were the first walkers to do the Colo, probably the roughest river in Australia. | ||
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To our clubmate, May Smith and his son Bruce, we extend our deepest sympathy. | To our clubmate, May Smith and his son Bruce, we extend our deepest sympathy. | ||
- | THE OFFICIAL " | + | ===== Twenty Miles ===== |
- | By Stoddy Jun. | + | |
- | In two detachments on the night of Friday, March 21st, six purposeful people set out for KatOomba, | + | By M. Bacon |
- | The Leader, Bill Hall, with Bill Whitney, sped down to Canons | + | |
- | Alighting at Katoomba we shivered -our way to the Reservoirs | + | Somewhere in the New England States |
- | . As we passed the " | + | |
- | All hills climbed at last, we swooped down into Green Gully and arrived to find Mrs. Carlon sitting up for us with tea on tap and large slices | + | The hills give way to lower ground and fields, with shasta daisies thickly starring |
- | With the first faint appearance | + | |
- | the hill and raced gaily down the other side into Cnrlon | + | Maple trees are in full green leaf. The same trees seen in the autumn |
- | Does anyone really admire Breakfast Creek? We were all glad to see the Cox at last, stopping long enough for dips, then on again at a smart bat on the right bank. Bell birds and Whip birds carolled us on and we were able to keep to one side for some distance past the Black Dog Rock. We stopped for lunch between | + | |
- | Moorilla | + | Now comes a small town with white wooden homes, each with an elegant white porch in colonial style, the lawn of one merging with the lawn of the next. Clumps of huge peony roses, |
- | After Cedar Creek the country | + | |
- | We were very lucky with the weather, which was sunny with a chill wind, and so we were never too hot despite | + | We stop at a station. White clover, white shasta daisies and tiny pink and mauve ones carried |
- | We saw some splendid horses and innumerable pigs of assorted sizes and | + | |
- | considered putting one in our pocket en route. Conscience triumphed however, and we left the piggy ranks to forage undepleted. | + | The grass gets greener and a quick look out of the opposite window shows the line is skirting a lake. The far, tree-fringed shore is a layer of faintly stirring pastel greens, and now there is another field of blue iris and yellow buttercups - many thousands |
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- | Opposite Moody' | + | A soft clear pink dog rose has appeared and a new blue flower like lupin pikes two feet high, grows in thick clumps. |
- | The valley widened: out and we croSsed | + | |
- | Mrs Smith, our substitute cook, was bustling round the kitchen, from which appetising aromas came floating forth. Presently a sumptuous repast was stacked before | + | The charm of the countryside is the rich greenness which is yet full of subtle changing colour as the minor flowers become visible. Everything seems to flourish |
- | For the first part of the night everyone squirmed | + | |
- | Morning came with the first sun' | + | Just fancy being a train-line and being able to enjoy this always!! |
- | We made 4 lateish start after 'a good breakfast and set off somewhat uneasily along the track. Many were the wide beautiful vistas unfolded for us on every hand of level of undulating valley surrounded by sunlit sandstone cliffs or tree clad mountain ridges, Reg was dropping behind | + | |
- | As we turned up the Wollondilly, we looked | + | ---- |
- | Now we came to bridges and open grids and better roads for cars but somewhat monotonous walking for feet, albeit opportunity for our eyes to take in the full beauty | + | |
- | It is a place that will always be beautiful, Man cannot ruin it, even | + | Owing to post-war conditions will all those people who usually present |
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- | though he flood that wide basin, | + | =====Rockclimbing In The Rain===== |
- | Bye and bye the stiffness wore away and we came to Bimlow, and partook | + | |
- | Just before Riley' | + | Paul Barnes. |
- | After Riley' | + | |
- | On through rising and dipping forest land we followed | + | (The author would be glad to learn whether the descent described has been accomplished before, also whether the point mentioned has ever beet named). |
- | "Down hill all the way and only a biscuit toss to Picton" | + | |
- | Bursts of song kept our_spirits. | + | It was early in 1944 when we stood on the Hogsback Ridge, Narrow Neck, and looked south-east at the long point or headland jutting out into the valley of Cedar Creek. |
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- | Munching apples | + | Our party started out bright and early on Friday night with a taxi to the Explorers' |
- | Many were the doleful pictures conjured u..pof what our condition would be at Central, but suffice it to say that we disembarked on our two overworked pins and managed not to appear inebriated. 7 | + | |
- | SPECIAL ANNOUNC NIEN T. | + | Few people, as yet, seem to know of the way down off the Pulpit Hill, a neat piece of rockclimbing which has been rendered easier |
- | Our first DANCE of the seasons | + | |
- | Please alter the details on your Social Programme | + | Breakfast was a satisfying meal on Back Creek, |
- | Time: Wednesday, 28th May, 1941, at 8 p m. | + | |
- | Place: MACQUARIE LOUNGE, Phillip Street, Sydney (near Martin Place) | + | Next day's programme comprised a sweltering walk up Six Foot Track and cross country to Mitchell' |
- | Price: 3/6d per person. | + | |
- | SEE YOU THERE: | + | It was during one of these convenient rests, dignified by the pretext of admiring the view, that a small porcupine waddled along, and, quite unconcerned, |
- | Doreen Helmrich | + | |
- | Hon.SOciai Secretary. | + | Once the top of the Head was reached we took a course through "Fools Paradise" |
- | PROGRESS REPORT OF OUR " | + | |
- | This committee, formed by the S.B.W., now ,has the support | + | [missing text] |
- | magazines, etc., to the various bushwalkeiv-whb 'areon service with the Navy, the A.I.F., or the R.A.A.F. T . | + | |
- | The combined | + | clad legs. |
- | - | + | |
- | So far the response to appeals for magazine stories, newspapers and reading matter generally has been better than the response | + | The actual descent of "Paul' |
- | And, photographers, | + | |
- | 'NO THANKS ! | + | To reach Cedar Creek now entailed merely rockhopping, |
- | I'D RATHER HAVE | + | |
- | "PAD | + | Were we satisfied |
- | SAYS | + | |
- | BRIAN EARVEY | + | =====Wings===== |
- | OF S.B.W.! | + | |
- | -0- | + | J. E. McDougall. |
- | BUY " | + | |
- | FROM | + | Never on earth\\ |
- | F. A. PALLIN, | + | Shall we know any rest\\ |
- | .327 GEORGE STREET, SYDNEY. B3101. | + | Who has borne in the night\\ |
- | 8 - | + | A wild bird in his breast |
- | INSIDE ENGLAND. | + | |
- | by Ken Iredale. | + | Ever he'll walk\\ |
- | Five A.M., the old Jowett chugged along in the cold morning air with its cargo of three -- Norman, Clara and myself - and rucksacks. Skipton, Settle, then, turning along a country lane near Clapham, we soon found ourselves | + | With the shadowy things\\ |
- | As we were ecompartively weak party, it was felt that we could only explore the first part of the cave, for which we would have to carry between us 150 feet of heavy rope and two 30-ft. rope ladders. At 9.30 a m, we were only waiting for the Sheffield couple | + | While his ears hear no talk\\ |
- | Fastening a 30-ft. rope to a boulder | + | For flutter of wings |
- | The problem was not to prevent too quick a descent but to find a place wide enough | + | |
- | There were few formations, the only one of note being a musical stalagmite, extending from floor to ceiling, upon which a tune could be played by tapping it at varing heights. We emerged into a large chamber with a high roof. Ahead our tunnel went along for some distance; | + | Life shall go over\\ |
- | -9- | + | Like swans in the night\\ |
- | through | + | With a whisper of wonder\\ |
- | Rather thoughtfully, | + | and something of fright. |
- | Our next problem was the exhausted girl. Tied onto the end of the rope and with an extra hand line for her to haul on, we got her about 20ft, up, and there she hung, too exhausted | + | |
- | 3 avoid her rope, and helped hold her for a few minutes while we both recovered our breath. Hauling together, we gradually got her nearer | + | Though he walks in still beauty\\ |
- | i0-- | + | He nothing shall see\\ |
- | By the time the rest of the party had joined us the girl was sufficienl recovered | + | Till two coins on his eyes\\ |
- | I have often thought of the tired girl who sat opposite me, too weary to eat; I wonder whether her first pothole was also her last. | + | Set the beating wings free. |
- | STOP PRESS. | + | |
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+ | We have no intention of telling those people not sufficiently | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Night Must Fall===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | By Prolix. | ||
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+ | The indisputable truth of the title has often been the cause of much concern to most walkers | ||
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+ | While well planned walks never suffer from such hasty decisions, I and, I am sorry to say, my walking companions find our trips occasionally far from being such models | ||
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+ | I can recall several doubtful campspots thrust upon me in the fast dwindling twilight | ||
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+ | Gordon | ||
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+ | Under such circumstances we began the descent from Point Lookout down on to and along the nine mile ridge to Bellinger River which, according to advice, could easily be accomplished in one day. Accordingly we admired | ||
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+ | Stinging trees are uncomfortable at the best of times, but with approaching dusk and an overgrown track things were anything but pleasant. What to do? No obvious camp site and no waters! | ||
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+ | Following a side track (there seemed | ||
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+ | I gathered some long grass from close by and softened | ||
+ | |||
+ | [missing text] | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Night Vigil===== | ||
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+ | Ron Knightley. | ||
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+ | "The floods -rush high in the gully under\\ | ||
+ | And lightnings lash at the shrinking | ||
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+ | The floods rush high - folks, if you want excitement, just cast your eye down the " | ||
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+ | After the evening meal and a quiet hour' | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Oh, it'd take a cloud-burst on top to send this creek up, now," Bill argued. | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Well, I dunno...," countered Leon, "this gorge is very restricted | ||
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+ | Then suddenly, "Look! Look!" cried Leon in alarm. "Look at it now". I sat bolt upright and beheld in the concentrated gleam of the two torches, not a tiny rivulet, but a rushing torrent twenty feet wide! The creek had risen five feet in its initial wave and its nearer edge actually lapped the beginnings of our little bank. All at once I was wide awake and wham! out of the sleeping bag in two seconds flat! Wild movement followed on all sides - sleeping bags, boots, spare clothes went helter-skelter into the packs in a frenzied rush to beat the rising flood! We jammed stuff in everywhere | ||
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+ | We retreated | ||
+ | |||
+ | The rain ceased. For an hour and half we marked the levels | ||
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+ | So the fire was built again - Bill doing a "wacko" job despite the saturated wood - and we drew matches for the order of the watch. At 12.20 we snoozed once again, safe in the knowledge that Bill would warn us in time for any future flood. It later transpired that he turned his toes to the fire and slept! At 1.30 he woke me and we sat quietly for a few minutes, sipping | ||
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+ | Though | ||
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+ | Calm night, solitude and the warm fire. As I gazed, unseeing into the coals, there arose a vision | ||
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+ | "The moving finger writes, and having writ\\ | ||
+ | Moves on; nor all thy piety not wit\\ | ||
+ | Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,\\ | ||
+ | Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it. | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====New From The Boys===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Geoff Parker - 31st August, 1945.==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Since about last March I have had the job of Chief Engineer | ||
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+ | However, whenever the opportunity offers, I get ashore and go on as long a walk as the occasion permits. Chiefly for the exercise, but also because I'm a born stickybeak and curious to see what is around | ||
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+ | Although the war is practically over, (the wireless says it is over) I don't expect to be home for at the least twelve months, but during that time I expect to see a deuce of a lot more country, maybe Tokio? | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Bob Morrison - 27th August 1945.==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Greetings from the Isles of Spice! I forget whether I've written | ||
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+ | What a different letter this will be to that one of mine, written | ||
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+ | I didn't come in with the first landings, but 10 days later, when all the evidence left of the battering this place took was the huge shell and bomb craters, wrecked buildings, charred | ||
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+ | This must have been a great town before the war and I don't mean before | ||
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+ | The homes here have been really beautiful, solidly built of brick and reinforced concrete, huge rooms, ceilings to 14 feet high and with stout woodwork and best quality fittings of all kinds. Tiles were in great prominence in kitchen and bathrooms and all of tip-top quality. The Dutch go in for a different type of bath to us; they have a tiled well raised about 3 feet above the floor and it seems they dip the water out of it and pour it over themselves - no lying down to it here. | ||
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+ | The balconies, verandahs | ||
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+ | [missing text] | ||
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+ | =====Wotsherthink? | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Fierce Battles. Heavy Casualties Avoided.==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Though most people Will, by now, be aware of the decision | ||
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+ | ====Thanks.==== | ||
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+ | Last month and also this month we have been able to publish some drawings, the work of Mary Ramsay, (wife of Tom), Denis Gittoes | ||
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+ | ====Watch for it.==== | ||
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+ | We have received forward advice of the intended consideration of the possible production of a monumental work by Hilma Galliott | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====In Full Sail.==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Doris Allden recently found time to dash home to Sydney | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Paging Dorothy Lamour.==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Geoff. Higson is back with us in civilian clothes but if his pre-war suits fit him round the chest they must have been made of elastic. Geoff. will be Australia' | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Interested? | ||
+ | If you see us, we can tell you where there are two paddy-made packs for sale. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Did She Fall or was She Pushed? | ||
+ | |||
+ | Have __you__ ever earned | ||
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+ | To all we wish a very happy Christmas | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Backyard Bushwalking===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | "Come and see this locust coming out of his case" I shouted to the girls. " | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Shop Hours.==== | ||
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+ | Paddy is pleased | ||
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+ | ====Stock.==== | ||
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+ | Rucksacks (without frames) cape groundsheets | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Gadgets.==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Pending | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Prices: | ||
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+ | 2 oz. 1d. each, 9d dozen | ||
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+ | 4 oz. 1 1/2d. each, 1/3 dozen | ||
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+ | 6 oz. 2d. each, 1/9 dozen | ||
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- | On Thursday, 24th April, Merle Hamilton became ,Mrs. Ken Iredale, and these two members of the S.B.W. promptly started their married life in the best | ||
- | possible way - by going bushwalking. On behalf of all their Club-mates we wish Merle and Ken long life and happiness, in other words - "Good Camping"; | ||
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- | 20 Hunter Street, City. (opp. Wynyard Entrance). | ||
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- | which in most cases could not be replaced if they, were spoiled. And we also | ||
- | have the understanding: | ||
- | perhaps more important -- the understanding of those who love the bush and want to express its beauty in pictures. | ||
- | We do Developing, Contact Printing, Enlarging, Copying, Colouring, Mounting | ||
- | and Framing. We stock always fresh films of the best brands, and Papers Chemicals and Equipment for those who do their processing themselves. | ||
- | You will be interested in our big range of Still and Movie Cameras and Accessories. | ||
- | We give friendly, expert advice on all questions of photography. | ||
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- | LETTERS FROM THE LADS. | ||
- | Here are some extracts from a long letter Gcrdon Smith wrote to the " | ||
- | "The air-mail arrived today and I unexpectedly received a few letters. 0 Glad to have it as we are supposed to leave here to-day and most certainly will do so to-morrow. | ||
- | History repeats itself. More S.B.W. get lost at a Swimming Carnival. Wish I could be hitting the water just about now. That is the great drawback here. Don't forget I want the Easter Trip in full even if it takes two letters to do,it; the first Easter since 1926 that I haven' | ||
- | 'like to be going with the crowd. In due course you'll know what I did on those dates, | ||
- | We expected to leave here any time after breakfast but I am now sitting in the front seat of a truck while the clock strikes two. It is very hot and sticky while the chances of getting a shower are very small. I am anxious to be off as I am riding in the front seat with the transport driver and hope to see a lot of new country if we are going any distance. It is hard to say when we'll | ||
- | return or if we'll go somewhere new, so this may not be posted for a few days. | ||
- | If we do come back to this town I shall try to have a look over a couple of their | ||
- | mosques or temples. | ||
- | ...This is a very disjointed, jumpy sort of letter but different | ||
- | things catch my eye and I write about them. Travelling vendors are of three types. | ||
- | Some carry their goods in two baskets supported by a lon5 cane pole which runs | ||
- | across the shoulders. They move at a short fast rate while the loads carried by some of the women in this fashion would surprise you. Another type pushes a | ||
- | small cart which can be stopped and used as a travelling shop should one wish to buy bananas, pineal: | ||
- | bicycle with an enormous load on his carrier almost hiding him from view. | ||
- | ....The military exercise was completed the next day but, while the | ||
- | rest of the troops returned to barracks, the section remained to do ten days | ||
- | reconnaissance work. We are camping half a mile from a small village. Population mostly Chinese. Two rivers join near the village. There are reputed to be crocodiles so, although slightly sceptical, will keep a good look out when I do any swimming. While we are here our work will consist mostly of examination of | ||
- | any tracks that hit the main road. We enter these two to a track complete with compass (for bearings), parangs (for obstacles) and one loaded rifle to pot a | ||
- | tiger occasionally. Regret to say that the only wild animals seen so far have been a couple of monkeys, a tortoise, a few small fish, a small animal like a | ||
- | weasel and a few water buffalo. I hope for better things. There is a small waterhole koo yards from camp where we bathe daily. | ||
- | ....Life has been fairly humdrum although reconnaissance of the jungle | ||
- | tracks is all very similar to bushwalking and I have a couple of baths a day. | ||
- | There was a little eXcitement today. Just as we were preparing to leave after lunch a big black spider stung Harry Gibbons on the finger. After a ligature | ||
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- | had been applied and the puncture gashed, he was hurried back to camp. While an Indian doctor was stroking Harry' | ||
- | Harry Gibbons was taken to hospital last night but returned this morning none the worse for his spider bite. Soon after breakfast Stan and I left camp with the intention of following a. side road to the river, thence continuing downstream until the main road crossed it, but we got amongst some thick jungle tangled trees and high grass - on the river bank, where we spent a very torrid hour fighting a way out into the open. There is a particular vine with fine teeth very close together which catch and rip the skin. It's worse than lawyer vines. A track brought us to the river, where we spent a pleasant hour swimming and lolling in the rather shallow water. | ||
- | ....Followed a. track some 6,coo yards into the jungle taking over a hundred bearings. This was slow, rather tiring work, but our interest quickened when we saw the unmistakable footprints of an elephant. He had enormous feet - the pad being 20 inches in diameter,.. Here he had scrambled along the bank, there he had knocked down saplings quite obliterating the track, but although we saw signs for a couple of miles we were not fortunate enough to see the real animal. On our return journey a cobra slid away from our path. | ||
- | Orders to leave tomorrow. Rather sorry as the life suited me and long reconnaissances in the jungle were a pleasure rather than a job of work. | ||
- | Still it will be nice to get some letters after a fortnight and some clean clothes. | ||
- | .....Sorry I was not present to welcome the old Debert. As I said previously, this job should suit him perfectly and if he gets a chance to go abroad as well he will be in seventh heaven. Can well believe he looks well in his Air Force Uniform. | ||
- | I'd like to see Dot again and hear about all her experiences in N,Z I knew she'd climb Mt. Cook. I wonder. whether I shall ever, get the Shance. | ||
- | So the Re-Union comes and goes. I never did care mush for them but would have liked to have been there this time. This place is all right but will become monotonous and I shall hardly care to stay while the rest of the A.I.F. is fighting elsewhere. Of course it may come here,if there is little chance of activity we may be moved. | ||
- | So Tim won the canoe. While I think of it - if and when I come back it should be possible to canoe the Cox and its tributaries (on account of W. dam); while on walks they'd need special water-proof bags to cover rucksacks while swimming. Will spoil river flats but make some places more exciting. Can imagine what some of the trips will be like then. OH BOYS | ||
- | .....Up at 5.30 and did all my packing. For once we actually moved at the scheduled time - about 11 a m. Quite a pleasant drive to our new location | ||
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- | 20 miles distant. _Are are about 400 -yards from -the sea and it won't be my 'fault if I don't get plenty ofvswimming. I have had no chance to look around yet but the surroundings seemed all right from the truck. Town 4 miles away. No pictures I'm afraid and Vm not sure about tennis facilities. Our quarters, of course, are not to be compared with the previous ones. It is a long hut with no doors | ||
- | ) or windows but a wide Otrerhanging roof of laced palm leaves which leaves a space all the way round. Roof- high like -a tent.- Can't say much more till I look at everything. Had first swim before 'tea. Baths 50 yards long, water deep at high tide. Milky colour, hard to see the bottom. Slight roll against the beach, which is white sand inferior in appearance to Sydney beaches, but weather was very dull and may have spoiled effedt. Beach fringed with cocoanut palms. Several large bungalows near beach. Owners so far unknown. | ||
- | All for now. | ||
- | Gordon. | ||
- | Here is his adress for you, folks:- | ||
- | NX26819 | ||
- | Private G. A. Smith. B/N Hqrs. 2/19th Batt, A.I.F. Abroad. | ||
- | =1, | ||
- | UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. | ||
- | and | ||
- | NOW OPEN EVERY EVENING (week-ends excepted) to serve you with | ||
- | GRILLS, or LIGHT MEALS, or DINNERS. | ||
- | Same chef; same food; but a 3-course meal for 1/6d, that's wartime economy' | ||
- | so | ||
- | Eat at ANNE'S PANTRY | ||
- | Wynyard Arcade, | ||
- | off Hunter Street, | ||
- | Sydney. | ||
- | (Reprinted from " | ||
- | FOOT-GEAR THROUGH THE AGES. | ||
- | The history of footgear is very old and has many Interesting aspects, artistic, _symbolic and utilitarian.- It is of interest to walkers because they | ||
- | are usually concerned about their footgear and perhaps some of them have wondered | ||
- | what type of sandals, boots or shoes the ancients wore when they marched the long distances which history re' | ||
- | When the world was young, the foot of the magnificient sun-gilded | ||
- | savage was flawless, his legs were btrong and stout as the bole of a palm and | ||
- | his feet, fleshy and fan-like, grasped rather than trod the earth. His toes were almost as prehensile as his fingers. | ||
- | Then as the world grew more civilised it began to adopt coverings for the feet. The most ancient type of which we have any record was the Egyptian | ||
- | Tab-teb or sandal, which consisted of plaited papyrus strip or hide secured by | ||
- | thongs.. But with the Egyptian woman, the: sandalwas very much more than merely protection for the feet. She regarded it as a very important ornament and so | ||
- | with its beautiful pigments which rivalled the plumage of the ibis and the parrot, | ||
- | its touches of Nubeen gold and all the other luxuries of effect, it became an indispensable weapon in the armour of the Egyptian girl. Thus briefly is indicated the artistic aspect which, of course, is a subject in itself. | ||
- | When the Egyptian woman dies, closing a life which has been an idyll in order to enter upon a second and even more idyllic life, she leaves behind her sandals, because when she is depicted in Egyptian portrayals of the other world, we notice that she is depicted without her sandals. There is a great deal of symbolism attached to the wearing and casting off of a sandal or sandals, but, as Kipling would say, that is another story. | ||
- | The Egyptians had a rather unpleasant habit of painting on the soles of their sandals the figure of an enemy whom they could thus insult every day by treading him underfoot. The Egyptian insult, however, was the Greek compliment, for the Greek, in proof of his affection, would carve the name of his beloved on the soles of his sandals so that wherever he trod he might leave a witness of his devotion to her. | ||
- | Leaving the symbolism of this subject, we now come to the utilitarian aspect. The Roman soldier wore sandals of leather Attached to strong soles, studded with hob-nails. They were strapped to his feet by means of strips of narrow leather about one inch apart across the instep and round the ankle with a | ||
- | perpendicular strip joining these and running from between the big toe and the | ||
- | second toe to the top horizontal strip. The sandal was thus firmly attached to the foot. Apparently there was no sock or other covering and the Roman soldier marched long distances in these sandals. | ||
- | Celtic British chieftans wore shoes of untanned hide with the hair inside; made in one piece, with a thong of hide to-lace the edges over the instep. | ||
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- | The women, when not bare-footed (which *as the prevailing custom) wore similar shoes drawn in at the ankle. With them, the wearing of the sandal was exceptional and, when worn, would have been imported from Rome. | ||
- | Sandals, shoes and boots were worn-by, the Romans and Greeks, but the sandal was the most commonly used. The sixth century marked the final transition ' from the sandal to the shoe. | ||
- | In ancient days (27 B.C. to A.D.400) peasants and sheperds in Europe wore shoes of thick felt and their legs were covered with pieces of coarse linen, tied under the knees and round the ankles. Another form of covering was long strips of hide wound round and round the legs like the modern puttee. | ||
- | The most primitive form of leg covering in use was a piece of hide wrapped round the, legs and secured with thongs arranged crosswise. | ||
- | About 800 A.D. the first form of sock came into existence. It was a kind of short hose made of cloth or leather, seamed up the side and cut to fit the foot and ankle at closely as. possible and yet sufficiently large to enable it to be drawn over the foot and heel. | ||
- | About this time there was also a_loose covering made of linen in the shape of a sock which was worn under a short boot or sandal of leather, and fastened by a series of straps and buckles. These straps were sometimes placed criss-cross and studded with metal. | ||
- | Prior to the 16th century, stockings were made of velvet or finest cloth called " | ||
- | There does not appear' | ||
- | In:this short arUae it lots been-possiblW to..gte om2y a brieflautline of ' | ||
- | --Sybil Wingfield. (Member) 1 | ||
- | - 16'- | ||
- | . FEDERATION NOTES. | ||
- | It is here - or almost - that Working Bee on May 10th and 11th at Maitland Bay. There is sure to be a good roll up because everyone so enjoyed the Working Bee arranged there last year by the Trustee! of Bouddi Natural Park that no one will want to miss out this year. By the way, don't forget, you are asked to provide your own axe, or mattock, or what-have you? | ||
- | OOOOO 000e040fie OOO SO* | ||
- | How well do YOU know the Platform Cave at Kanangra Walls? Can you immediately visualise the iudrip hole in the cave", the second cave along? That is where the Warrigals sank tne empty half drum to catch the drips on a ledge in the cave, not outside it. A " | ||
- | OOOOOOOO | ||
- | In the March issue of their magazine, our young friends of the Camp Fire Club have summarised an article that appeared in the Bush Fires Advisory Committee' | ||
- | "Most Bush Fires are man made and fire prevention is everybody' | ||
- | CLUB GOSSIP. | ||
- | On Sunday, 23rd March, 1941; Bertie and Evelyn Whillier welcomed a daughter. As everyone knows, all the best bushwalkers start by doing a Sunday walk, and we hope Lynette Dawn, Whillier will prove t3.sxcOption, | ||
- | The rest of the news this month is matter of comings and goings' | ||
- | We are all delighted to see Dot English and Dorothy Hasluck back from New Zealand. Did you know that Ted. Dollimore has also returned to Sydney from the Land of the Silver Fern - "for the duration, in a war job". We wonder whether we shall see much of him, or whether he will join the property-owners at Otford. Arthur Austin and Bill Piggott having started it, Alister Menmuir and Harry Lee also purchased land and built week...enders there: - | ||
- | Evelyn Higinbotham was in the Club Room the other night jut brimming. with anticipations -She Jlas joined the staff of Burns Philp & Co. Lt& and starts work at Suva just as soon' as a ship canget her there. We'll be seeing you again, Evelyn, when you come to Sydney on leave in two or three years' time. | ||
- | Two other old members who have recently taken their family to fresh fields and pastures new are Joe and lath. Turner. Joe has a job in Armidale, so we wish the Turners "good camping" |
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