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 Len Fall mentioned the proposal to plant a memorial drive of trees between Canberra and Sydney, sponsored by General Berryman, and suggested we support the plan and possibly meet the cost of a tree (about £10). Kath Brown moved an amendment that we should definitely have our tree in the grove, and, after Tom Moppett had enlarged on the story, explaining that the scheme was not simply a line of trees or a grove, but envisaged retaining certain forested places adjacent to the road, amendment and motion were carried. Len Fall mentioned the proposal to plant a memorial drive of trees between Canberra and Sydney, sponsored by General Berryman, and suggested we support the plan and possibly meet the cost of a tree (about £10). Kath Brown moved an amendment that we should definitely have our tree in the grove, and, after Tom Moppett had enlarged on the story, explaining that the scheme was not simply a line of trees or a grove, but envisaged retaining certain forested places adjacent to the road, amendment and motion were carried.
  
-Now came a rather muddled debate which started lucidly enough when Frank Ashdown mentioned excellent films available from American Informatim sources, provided a projector could be obtained for 16 m.m. films. Len Scotland asked did we want a 16 m.m. projector. Up to the Club, said the President, he wouldn't touch it himself.+Now came a rather muddled debate which started lucidly enough when Frank Ashdown mentioned excellent films available from American Information sources, provided a projector could be obtained for 16 m.m. films. Len Scotland asked did we want a 16 m.m. projector. Up to the Club, said the President, he wouldn't touch it himself.
  
 Ross Laird said he was aware films were available from the American Council and would investigate for future Social evenings. Len Scotland moved the purchase of a projector for £50. "What 50?" said someone, and after some hubbub the whole thing lapsed. Ross Laird said he was aware films were available from the American Council and would investigate for future Social evenings. Len Scotland moved the purchase of a projector for £50. "What 50?" said someone, and after some hubbub the whole thing lapsed.
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 By "Oolite". By "Oolite".
  
-The 6.37 train brought to Mount Victoria on Friday 27th November species of a type relatively rare in such a progressive country. Several whispers of "Erskine Gap Monster" and "I'll sign the pledge" were overheard from the Pioneer populace of the station Bar. The solution lay in an item in the S.B.W. Walks Programme which read simply: "Jenolan Caves Exploration". The party, consisting of our intrepid leader Beverly (this one's a dead-end) Price, Brian "Admiral" Anderson, Frank "Bonno" Barn, David "Choom" Moorhouse, was met with loud gesticulations of delight from David "Snow" Brown, who, it is rumoured, was instrumental in causing a financial crisis on the Blue Mountains as the result of a card game, whidh he insists he was dragged into, on the 6.23 train, and Ken "Bostik" Angel, who hitched up from the Nowra area.+The 6.37 train brought to Mount Victoria on Friday 27th November species of a type relatively rare in such a progressive country. Several whispers of "Erskine Gap Monster" and "I'll sign the pledge" were overheard from the Pioneer populace of the station Bar. The solution lay in an item in the S.B.W. Walks Programme which read simply: "Jenolan Caves Exploration". The party, consisting of our intrepid leader Beverly (this one's a dead-end) Price, Brian "Admiral" Anderson, Frank "Bonno" Barn, David "Choom" Moorhouse, was met with loud gesticulations of delight from David "Snow" Brown, who, it is rumoured, was instrumental in causing a financial crisis on the Blue Mountains as the result of a card game, which he insists he was dragged into, on the 6.23 train, and Ken "Bostik" Angel, who hitched up from the Nowra area.
  
 The caves were reached with only the usual amount of disturbance, and camp was made on McKeown's Creek. The caves were reached with only the usual amount of disturbance, and camp was made on McKeown's Creek.
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 I would like to encourage walks leaders (we still have some) to be more patient with those incurably affected by the Kodachrome disease. I base my plea on the fact of a certain S.U.S.S. member taking 14 hours for 3 photos. I would like to encourage walks leaders (we still have some) to be more patient with those incurably affected by the Kodachrome disease. I base my plea on the fact of a certain S.U.S.S. member taking 14 hours for 3 photos.
  
-The campsite at McKeown's Flat, while no doubt giving atmosphere and drama, etc., is not a very good advertisement for a certain  Speliological Society. Surely members can find a spot out of sight to dump thelil spent carbide, or at least put it on one pile.+The campsite at McKeown's Flat, while no doubt giving atmosphere and drama, etc., is not a very good advertisement for a certain  Speliological Society. Surely members can find a spot out of sight to dump the spent carbide, or at least put it on one pile.
  
 We wouldn't be surprised to see a Speliological Section of S.B.W. formed before long because, as far as we are concerned, this grovelling is definitely the most! We wouldn't be surprised to see a Speliological Section of S.B.W. formed before long because, as far as we are concerned, this grovelling is definitely the most!
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-FELLING OF TIMBER - UPPER HUNTER VALLZY,+===== Felling Of Timber - Upper Hunter Valley. ===== 
 (From an article "Keepit Dam Terrain Survey" - Journal of the Soil Conservation Service of N.S.W.) (From an article "Keepit Dam Terrain Survey" - Journal of the Soil Conservation Service of N.S.W.)
-During the 1820's it has been recorded that the 1 of the Upper Hunter were savannash woodland, mile the were forested. Here, as in other young countries, the timber was the prime consideration of the settler. At confined to the lower slopes and the removal of timber contribute to accelerated erosion. Unfortunately the'3, the valuable cover from the hillsides. + 
-ovimr slopcs upper 2,eglons clearing of fist it was did not +During the 1820's it has been recorded that the lower slopes of the Upper Hunter were savannash woodland, while the upper regions were forested. Here, as in other young countries, the timber was the prime consideration of the settler. At first it was confined to the lower slopes and the removal of timber did not contribute to accelerated erosion. Unfortunately they began to remove the valuable cover from the hillsides. 
-began to remove + 
-A newspaper article dated 1875 refers to the Murrurundi area +A newspaper article dated 1875 refers to the Murrurundi area: "The timber was formerly heavy, but the more valuable has been felled, the present forest exhibiting the inevitable monotony of the colonial woods.... Upon the country being cleared of timber the Pages River increased in size and mischievous effects, enlarging its channel and carrying away much valuable property". 
-"The timber was formerly heavy, but the more valuable has been felled, the present forest exhibiting the inevitable monotony of the colonial  woods .... Upon the country being cleared of timber the Pages River increased in size and mischievous effects, enlarging its channel and carrying away much valuable property". + 
-Rinsbarkinr2, was tried in the Australian Agricultural Company's property at Port Stephens in 1839 and again 1860 by Hun,gerford in the Upper Hunter. It seems that it probably began on a large scale about the 1880's, "Beltrees" estate clearing large areas in thisumanner. A statement made of the Upper Hunter area in 1914 said that Timber at the head of creeks is gradually being killed ftt great expense". Not only was it a great expense to the landholder, but in later years it was a great expense to the Nation, for these areas are now the sources of landslides and. floods. +Ringbarking was tried in the Australian Agricultural Company's property at Port Stephens in 1839 and again 1860 by Hungerford in the Upper Hunter. It seems that it probably began on a large scale about the 1880's, "Beltrees" estate clearing large areas in this manner. A statement made of the Upper Hunter area in 1914 said that Timber at the head of creeks is gradually being killed at great expense". Not only was it a great expense to the landholder, but in later years it was a great expense to the Nation, for these areas are now the sources of landslides and floods. 
-Fires: + 
-W.A. de Beuzeville, forest ecologist, states in the report of the Hunter River Flood Mitigation Committee "From the information put an record by the first settlers and explorers it is evident that no dense forests of eucalypts existed at the time. The country was for the most part wooded with a vast eucalyptian parkland, having ,a grassy sward'. +=== Fires: === 
-One of the cause of the parkland type, according to de Deuzeville was the aborigine's habit of lighting fires for he "required good feeding grounds for his game... and he loathed scrub and undergrowth for he was naked and could not penetrate it", + 
-However, his fires were mild compared with those that followed the coming of the white settler. Surveyor Mitchell mentions severe fires in the Upper Hunter in 1831. After a hot day (95) his party camped near "Muscle Brook" but were harassed by grass fires. +W.A. de Beuzeville, forest ecologist, states in the report of the Hunter River Flood Mitigation Committee "From the information put on record by the first settlers and explorers it is evident that no dense forests of eucalypts existed at the time. The country was for the most part wooded with a vast eucalyptian parkland, having a grassy sward". 
-The constant firing gradually became confined to the hills where over the years more useful species of grasses were killed out. In certain areas and at certain times of the year it is probable that infrequent 1j4it firing does no harm. However, year after year fires lit for burning off have got out of hand to run riot in forests, especially in the Wollombi and Barrington Tops area, until today humus leaf litter and much of our wild life have been destroyed. An illustration of wild life is the fact that charcoal from fires blocked the gills of trout and killed thousands of them in the Barrington Tops area last year (the bad fire summer of 1951/2). + 
-11. +One of the cause of the parkland type, according to de Deuzeville was the aborigine's habit of lighting fires for he "required good feeding grounds for his game... and he loathed scrub and undergrowth for he was naked and could not penetrate it". 
-THE MAD MILE. + 
-Some time ago we saw an article in "Punch from the pen of A.P. Herbert. He was very grieved at the disparity between the so- called "statute" mile (which, so far as I recall from far off school days, consists of 5,280-ft. or 1,760 yards - not to mention eight furlongs, eighty chains or a quite absurd number of rods, poles or perches) and the nautical mile, representing one minute of latitude, and varying slightly in different latitudes, but usually about 2,060 yards. +However, his fires were mild compared with those that followed the coming of the white settler. Surveyor Mitchell mentions severe fires in the Upper Hunter in 1831. After a hot day (95º) his party camped near "Muscle Brook" but were harassed by grass fires. 
-A.P. Herbert also explains the derivation of the word "mile" as a contracted form of "mille passus" or "thousand paces" of the Roman Army. Lest we conclude that the Roman legionnaires were superlative walkers, it should be explained that the Roman "passus" was two steps, so the thousand paces was really 2,000 steps. Work it out for yourself, and youtll find that on fairly good surfaces, a mile is darned near 2,000 steps. + 
-I was quite interested in all this, but felt A.P.H. really hadntt plumbed the whole matter, merely scratched at the surface, so to speak. While Itm not going to pretend that this essay will have +The constant firing gradually became confined to the hills where over the years more useful species of grasses were killed out. In certain areas and at certain times of the year it is probable that infrequent light firing does no harm. However, year after year fires lit for burning off have got out of hand to run riot in forests, especially in the Wollombi and Barrington Tops area, until today humus leaf litter and much of our wild life have been destroyed. An illustration of wild life is the fact that charcoal from fires blocked the gills of trout and killed thousands of them in the Barrington Tops area last year (the bad fire summer of 1951/2). 
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-Prints +Some time ago we saw an article in "Punch from the pen of A.P. Herbert. He was very grieved at the disparity between the so-called "statute" mile (which, so far as I recall from far off school days, consists of 5,280-ft. or 1,760 yards - not to mention eight furlongs, eighty chains or a quite absurd number of rods, poles or perches) and the nautical mile, representing one minute of latitude, and varying slightly in different latitudes, but usually about 2,060 yards. 
-Perfect + 
-E.niargements +A.P. Herbert also explains the derivation of the word "mile" as a contracted form of "mille passus" or "thousand paces" of the Roman Army. Lest we conclude that the Roman legionnaires were superlative walkers, it should be explained that the Roman "passus" was __two__ steps, so the thousand paces was really 2,000 steps. Work it out for yourself, and you'll find that on fairly good surfaces, a mile is darned near 2,000 steps. 
-12. + 
-the finish or the perfection of the original, I do intend to examine the topic thoroughly, from a walker's point of view. +I was quite interested in all this, but felt A.P.H. really hadn't plumbed the whole matter, merely scratched at the surface, so to speak. While I'm not going to pretend that this essay will have the finish or the perfection of the original, I do intend to examine the topic thoroughly, from a walker's point of view. 
-We aren,t concerned with nautical distance - well, not as a rule - but we do have to contend with several varieties of mile. There is the statute mile, the one represented an the scale at the foot of maps, and by the representative fraction as well on the top left of military maps. Thereris also the l'bushwalker" mile, the lilocal inhabitant" mile, the 'Tasmanian" mile - and others. + 
-Taking first things first,look at "bushwalker" miles as shown on  walks programmes and trip reports. It is a quite elastic measure, and like the diurnal variation of the compass, appears to vary from season to season, leader to leader, Walks Secretary to balks Secretary The old familiar, the walk from 'f:entworth Falls over Mt. Solitary to Katoamba, fluctuates between 15 and 22 miles. Other trips are equally erratic. We do not accept it that distances have shrunk noticeably during recent wet seasons: indeed, with added undergrowth some of 'el. seem a deuced sight longer. Once we would have defined a '"bushwalker mile as about 1,400 - 1,500 yards, but several entries on recent walks programmes have shaken this concept, and we can only say it is a Personal and intimate thing, which baffles any attempt to give it Precise length, but commonly between 1,400 and 2,200 yards. +We aren't concerned with nautical distance - well, not as a rule - but we do have to contend with several varieties of mile. There is the statute mile, the one represented on the scale at the foot of maps, and by the representative fraction as well on the top left of military maps. There is also the "bushwalker" mile, the "local inhabitant" mile, the "Tasmanian" mile - and others. 
-If it be true that "bushwalker" miles are variable, then the on17/ fair way to describe "local inhabitant" miles is "fluid". They absolutely defy any bid to classify or limit them. Despite years of research, we cannot obtain a finer figure than from 400 to 5,000 yards Occasionally it even coincides with the statute mile. The problem is complicated as it hinges on temperamental as well as more tangible factors. If the local resident doesn't want you to go that way, the mileage will be something appalling, the path hemmed about by impending cliffs, while vines and poisonous growths and savage cattle will invesi: the way. + 
-If the local travels it by car or on horseback, and has no particular objection to your journeying by that route, he will very Probably deal airily in air-line distances, minus 40- per cent to compensate for the bracing climate at the tor of the 4,000-ft. pass, minus ten-percent for the distance lost throust downgrades. Or, of course, the local may never have been that way, but daren't 4cimi his ignorance to the precocious cityfied type: he argues, if you get through you won't be back to tell him how far out he was: if you don't get through you won't know either, so what the hell .. think of a number... +Taking first things first, look at "bushwalker" miles as shown on walks programmes and trip reports. It is a quite elastic measure, and like the diurnal variation of the compass, appears to vary from season to season, leader to leader, Walks Secretary to Walks Secretary. The old familiar, the walk from Wentworth Falls over Mt. Solitary to Katoomba, fluctuates between 15 and 22 miles. Other trips are equally erratic. We do not accept it that distances have shrunk noticeably during recent wet seasons: indeed, with added undergrowth some of 'em seem a deuced sight longer. Once we would have defined a "bushwalker" mile as about 1,400 - 1,500 yards, but several entries on recent walks programmes have shaken this concept, and we can only say it is a personal and intimate thing, which baffles any attempt to give it precise length, but commonly between 1,400 and 2,200 yards. 
-Tasmanian" miles have a reputation for being long. Mainlanders complain bitterly that the 12 miles from Waldheim to Windermere is a very liberal twelve. Actually, we're inclined to believe that the miles through the Reserve are simply statute miles gone soft. Given enough liquid, any mile will feel long: given enough tussocky button grass, every league will seem a burden.+ 
 +If it be true that "bushwalker" miles are variable, then the on1y fair way to describe "local inhabitant" miles is "fluid". They absolutely defy any bid to classify or limit them. Despite years of research, we cannot obtain a finer figure than from 400 to 5,000 yards. Occasionally it even coincides with the statute mile. The problem is complicated as it hinges on temperamental as well as more tangible factors. If the local resident doesn't want you to go that way, the mileage will be something appalling, the path hemmed about by impending cliffs, while vines and poisonous growths and savage cattle will invest the way. 
 + 
 +If the local travels it by car or on horseback, and has no particular objection to your journeying by that route, he will very probably deal airily in air-line distances, minus 40- per cent to compensate for the bracing climate at the top of the 4,000-ft. pass, minus ten-percent for the distance lost through downgrades. Or, of course, the local may never have been that way, but daren't admit his ignorance to the precocious cityfied type: he argues, if you get through you won't be back to tell him how far out he was: if you don't get through you won't know either, so what the hell... think of a number... 
 + 
 +"Tasmanian" miles have a reputation for being long. Mainlanders complain bitterly that the 12 miles from Waldheim to Windermere is a very liberal twelve. Actually, we're inclined to believe that the miles through the Reserve are simply statute miles gone soft. Given enough liquid, any mile will feel long: given enough tussocky button grass, every league will seem a burden. 
 We have considerable faith in the measured miles of Lamington - they feel like dinki-di miles. We have considerable faith in the measured miles of Lamington - they feel like dinki-di miles.
-13. + 
-N THAT HOT DRY TRIP.  it +"Shire Council" miles, as indicated on sign posts, introduce delicious variables. We have seen two posts, separated by ten minutes' walking, which quoted the same town as being six and ten miles distant (the ten-mile peg was the nearer to the town). 
- there is no more refreshing drink than our + 
-TINNED PINEAPPLE JUICE +By the way, we've heard it argued that up-hill miles should not be scaled off a map, because they're so much longer. Don't you believe it! Better still, prove this for yourself. Draw a horizontal line six inches long, and at one end erect a vertical two inches long, then connect the top of the vertical to the far end of the horizontal. Your last line represents a gradient of one-in-three (a pretty steep hill by any walker's reckoning). Now measure off this hypoteneuse - unless you're so bright you can do it by Pythagoras' Theorem. In my sketch it worked out at about six and three-eighths inches, so the added length was three-eighths of an inch - about six percent. It seems as though a "mile" on a rising grade of one in three will really be about 1,870 yards long. 
-AND FOR AUSTRALIA DAY WEEKEND FOODLIST: + 
-SPECIAL- New Season' -6 Dates - 'just unpacked J +You must beware the character who is the confirmed "inch-a-miler". He has grown so attuned to reckoning an inch on the map as a mile on the ground, he is incapable of coping with any other scale. If he starts working on the Kosciusko Snow Lease maps, he'll have you slugging out "miles" of about 2,500 yards. How easy it is to do, too! During this past year I was working on a map scaled at 1 inch to 100 chains for about a week before I discovered an inch wasn't a mile. 
-APPLE RINGS GOLDEN SULTANAS DRIED FIGS +
-BRAZIL KERNELS PLAIN & SALTED CASEEWS APRICOT ROLLS,- FOR THAT SNACK ON THE TRACK / I +
-RAW PEANUTS CRYSTALLISED PAWPAW +
-ALL BRANDS OF QUICKLY-MADE BREAKFAST FOODS +
-WHOLEMEAL BREAD +
-THE SANITARIUM  HEALTH FOOD SHOP +
-13 'HUNTER STREET SYDNEY +
-..........1..... +
-'Shire Council" miles, as indicated on sign posts, introduce delicious variables. We have seen' two posts, separated by ten minutes' walking, which quoted the same town as being six and ten miles distant (the ten-mile peg was the nearer to the town) - +
-By the way, we fve heard it argued that up-hill miles should not +
-be scaled off a map, because they're so much longer. Don't you believc it Better still, prove this for yourself. Draw a horizontal line six inches long, and at one end erect a vertical two inches long, then connect the top of the vertical to the far end of the horizontal. Your last line represents a gradient of brie-in-three (a pretty steep hill by any walker 's reckoning)  Now measure off this hypoteneuse - unless +
- youile so bright you can do it by Pythagoras? Theorem. In my sketch +
-it worked out at about six and three-eighths inches, so the added length was three-eighths of an inch - about six percent. It seems +
-O as though a "mile" on a rising grade of one in three will really be about 1,870 yards long. +
-You must beware the character who is the confirmed "inch-amiler". He has grown so attuned to reckoning an inch an the map as n mile on the ground, he is incapable of coping with any other scale. If he starts working an the. Kosciusko Snow Lease maps, hell have you slugging out "miles" of about 2,500 yards. How easy it is to do, too! During this past year I was working on a map scaled at 1 inch to 100 chains for about a week before 1 discovered an inch wasnft a mile. +
-14.+
 Perhaps the best way to get a true picture of the length of a mile is to walk it along a railway line, where you have quarter, half and three-quarter mile pegs. The mile peg, of course, shows the distance from Sydney: the quarter is marked by a straight wood or concrete post, about five feet high, with a slanting cut off one top corner. At the half mile is a similar post with a pointed top, at the three-quarters one with a square out top. Pick a piece of line with cuttings, so you will have to stumble over sleepers and ballast, and see how long a mile or two takes. In future, your miles will probably be nearer the truth, if not nearer heart's desire. Perhaps the best way to get a true picture of the length of a mile is to walk it along a railway line, where you have quarter, half and three-quarter mile pegs. The mile peg, of course, shows the distance from Sydney: the quarter is marked by a straight wood or concrete post, about five feet high, with a slanting cut off one top corner. At the half mile is a similar post with a pointed top, at the three-quarters one with a square out top. Pick a piece of line with cuttings, so you will have to stumble over sleepers and ballast, and see how long a mile or two takes. In future, your miles will probably be nearer the truth, if not nearer heart's desire.
-oray unnastow e.....d t. wwrIaN Noma + 
-Some seventeen or eighteen members were present for the farewell bush party for John White on the weekend of 12/13 December. Early in the New Year Johh moves off to Tomalla at the north and of the +---- 
- Tops plateau, where he joins the "Back to the Land" movement. We feel it in the bones that John is one of those born to be bush- walkers, and that he will be in touch with us from time to time and may be able to provide useful gen for those planning trips in the Barrington country, which we ought to know better. + 
-And now, having said the serious part of this, we can report some of the screwy things that happened at Era that weekend. or instance.. +=== The Sanitarium Health Food Shop. === 
-A certain small party lost his teeth thilst surfing. It is NOT true that he bit a shark accidentally. + 
-The Treasurer was out of sugar. Quite literally. The rest of the food party snarled slightly, and then it was resolved that David Brown who was still to appear was the sugar-daddy . (more later).. +On that hot day trip there is no more refreshing drink than our tinned pineapple juice. 
-An unheard of episode. A party of S.B.W, didn't know their way from Maynard's track to Era. With one exception they hadn't been to Era previously, and finally made their way down through the jungle. That a change from a few years ago, when many S,B.W. didn't know their way to any place except Era! + 
-And David Brown didn't have the sugar either. The food party no longer accents the Bard's "surfeit of the sweetest things, the deepest loathing to the stomach brings". +And for Australia Day weekend foodlist: 
-Breakfast time on Sunday, with brilliant hot sunlight and the beginnings of a nor-easter breathing. Smoke over at Stockyard. The hill between South Era and Stockyard coins up in fire. The S.B.W. running feverishly over to Stockyard grabbing up beaters and water buckets. Two hours later the S.D.W were doing the Casabianca act on the burning deck whence all others had fled to the pleasures of the surf. No one has recorded how nany buckets of water from the muddy pool in the sVamp were lugged up the hill by a sweating chain of walkers, but at the end the dangerous flank of the fire was quite quenched, A small outbreak occurred later an the seaward edge, and this was beaten out in turn. The cause - a cooking fire _lit within two feet of dry grass and bracken at the base of a tree. We feel sure thaMhe campers (not S.B.W.) won't make that mistake again. + 
-SYDNEY +Special - new season's dates - just unpacked! Apple rings. Golden sultanas. Dried figs. Brazil kernels. Plain & salted cashews. Apricot rolls - for that snack on the track!! Raw peanuts. Crystallised pawpaw. All brands of quickly-made breakfast foods. Wholemeal bread. 
-Behan), Hay 41 + 
-SCEN 7C. cH A...am  Location map for a paposed.... WILDFLow.CR. SPLENDOUR, I +The Sanitarium Health Food Shop. 
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-KARIONG NATIONAL PARK591'3"."'" nwizrai, 1 +13 Hunter Street, Sydney. 
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-;2771iler eu lo :11:n?.(?)K41.1.(t. 4 i;on3 zo&tyyou +Some seventeen or eighteen members were present for the farewell bush party for John White on the weekend of 12/13 December. Early in the New Year John moves off to Tomalla at the north end of the Barrington Tops plateau, where he joins the "Back to the Land" movement. We feel it in the bones that John is one of those born to be bushwalkers, and that he will be in touch with us from time to time and may be able to provide useful gen for those planning trips in the Barrington country, which we ought to know better. 
- .7 t2 + 
-"My co. 77 !, =-7 Z-Vc1 Vnatetelf +And now, having said the serious part of this, we can report some of the screwy things that happened at Era that weekend. For instance... 
-NEWCASTLL + 
-cr +A certain small party lost his teeth whilst surfing. It is NOT true that he bit a shark accidentally. 
-Maroviaric., + 
-tutteralstakts 0 +The Treasurer was out of sugar. Quite literally. The rest of the food party snarled slightly, and then it was resolved that David Brown who was still to appear was the sugar-daddy... (more later)... 
-47-733 0 POSED PARK + 
-Ilowliesintry 1vv aria broken Day. +An unheard of episode. A party of S.B.W. didn't know their way from Maynard's track to Era. With one exception they hadn't been to Era previously, and finally made their way down through the jungle. What a change from a few years ago, when many S.B.W. didn't know their way to any place except Era! 
-f`A + 
-Gel +And David Brown didn't have the sugar either. The food party no longer accepts the Bard's "surfeit of the sweetest things, the deepest loathing to the stomach brings". 
-le - + 
-kot +Breakfast time on Sunday, with brilliant hot sunlight and the beginnings of a nor-easter breathing. Smoke over at Stockyard. The hill between South Era and Stockyard going up in fire. The S.B.W. running feverishly over to Stockyard grabbing up beaters and water buckets. Two hours later the S.B.W were doing the Casabianca act on the burning deck whence all others had fled to the pleasures of the surf. No one has recorded how many buckets of water from the muddy pool in the swamp were lugged up the hill by a sweating chain of walkers, but at the end the dangerous flank of the fire was quite quenched. A small outbreak occurred later on the seaward edge, and this was beaten out in turn. The cause - a cooking fire lit within two feet of dry grass and bracken at the base of a tree. We feel sure that the campers (not S.B.W.) won't make that mistake again. 
-4005 tj. + 
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-4=4/77:ke +===== Location Map For Proposed Kariong National Park. ===== 
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-isifeci71, + 
-fir &lade anti refirexcer  +=== About this proposal... === 
-?AM P4TOISGA.... + 
-COUNTY or 00nDateD +The Woy Woy-Gosford District is developing rapidly... industry has already become well-established. Ease of access has brought the City closer. Once the flat lands about Woy Woy were a garden of wildflowers and a haunt for native animals. Now this land is closely settled and the hills must be the haven for our plants and animals. In addition, the many high points give magnificent lookouts over the Brisbane Waters and Broken Bay, with all the splendour of natural scenic charm. 
-otne unal aiimatea ?Aims itel Shoot. + 
-H w +Progress must come to Woy Woy and the surrounding areas... but let us progress with a view to all the needs of the people, now and in the future. The recreational value and the enjoyment of natural wildernesses is a well established factor in our modern way of life. Few would deny the strong urge that we all possess... the urge to be out in the bushlands, be it picnicking, camping, hiking, bushwalking or pursuing the study of natural science. 
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-S tslested restanitions atoc cliffs. 4/1tit 0 bOtifila47)7 alor4 edge of fartf. +In our proposal, no serious loss will be suffered by any individual. Thousands of acres are Crown Lands entirely free of licence or lease. We need the active co-operation of Local Authority and all citizens, be they from the Woy Woy District or elsewhere, for this reserve would serve all who care to visit the magnificent Warrah Sanctuary and keep the sandstone ridges on either sides of Patonga and Mullet Creeks, tree-covered for all time. The main Woy Woy Road from the Pacific Highway is renowned for the avenues of trees and heathlands... on either sides, deep valleys still retain their natural growths. From Staples' Lookout, the folding hillsides drop down on to the broad Brisbane Waters. None of this must be marred by buildings that shut out the views. With adequately planned development, access can be arranged so that no loss will be incurred. 
-Pm?.  gralqie nstamptiorts. + 
-FOR gETAILS OF tsrrs OTM AREA: +No time should be wasted for fear that some steps will be taken to alienate parts and so unbalance the security of the whole area. We suggest that __you__, having found some of the secrets of enjoyment that this area holds, might in a selfless manner, undertake to introduce others or to win action from those in authority. 
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-ABOUT THIS PROPOSAL a.... +
-The W4:4' Woy-Gosford District is developing rapidly .. industry has already become well-established. Ease of access has brought the City closer. Once the flat lands about Woy Woy-- were a garden of wildflowers and a haunt for native animals. Now this land is closely settled and the hills mast be the haven for our plants and animals. In addition, the many high points give magnificent lookouts over the Brisbane Waters and Broken Bay, with all the splendour of natural scenic charm. +
-Progress must come to Woy Woy and the surrounding areas but let us progress with a view to all the needs of the people, now and in the future. The recreational value and the enjoyment of natural wildernesses is a well established factor in our modern way of life. Few would deny the strong urge that we all possess .. the urge to be out in the bushlands, be it picnicking, camping, hiking, bushwalking or pursuing the study of natural science. +
-In our proposal, no serious loss will be suffered by any individual. Thousands of acres are Crown Lands entirely free' of licence or lease. We need the active co-operation of Local Authority and all citizens, be they from the Wby Woy District +
-or elsewhere, for this reserve would serve all who care to visit the magnificent Warrah Sanctuary and keep the sandstone ridges on either sides of Patonga and Mullet Creeks, tree-covered for all time. The main Woy Woy Road from the Pacific Highway is renowned for the avenues of trees and teathlands .. on either sides, deep valleys still retain their natural growths. From Staples' Lookout, the folding hillsides drop down on. to the broad Brisbane Waters, None of this must bp marred by buildings that shut out the views. With adequately planned development, access can be arranged so that no loss will be incurred. +
-No time should be wasted for fear that some steps will be taken to alienate parts and so unbalance the security of the +
-whole area. We suggest that YOU, having found some of the +
-secrets of enjoyment that this area holds, might in a selfless manner, undertake to introduce others or to win action from +
-those in authority.+
 Will you join us in this most essential work? Enquiries welcome. Will you join us in this most essential work? Enquiries welcome.
 +
 Issued by The Caloola Club, 31 Byron Street, Croydon. UA2983. Issued by The Caloola Club, 31 Byron Street, Croydon. UA2983.
-15 + 
-FEDERATION NOTES - DECEMBER.+---- 
 + 
 +===== Federation Notes - December. ===== 
 By Allan A. Strom. By Allan A. Strom.
-SEARCH AND RESCUE SECTION: Tom V;ardhaugh has resigned from the posifT7E-7757=7-77 his place has been taken by Keith Armstrong (of The Rucksack Club) JF 3746 (Private) and BX5438 (Business). The first meeting of the Section in 1954 will be held in the Rooms of + 
-the Big Sister Movement, Sixth Floor, Scott's Chambers, Hosking Place, on February, 4th, at 6 p m. +=== Search and Rescue Section: === 
-Jim Hooper will be the official CONTACT MAN for the Section. XM6001 (Private) and DX5438 (Business). + 
-JUNIOR VICE-PRESIDENT: Position has become vacant following upon the 75777tion-777131 Wardhaugh. Delegates would like to hear from any person interested in the position. +Tom Wardhaugh has resigned from the position of Secretary and his place has been taken by Keith Armstrong (of The Rucksack Club) JF 3746 (Private) and BX5438 (Business). The first meeting of the Section in 1954 will be held in the Rooms of the Big Sister Movement, Sixth Floor, Scott's Chambers, Hosking Place, on February, 4th, at 6 p.m. 
-NEWS AND INFORMTION BUREAU:(Dept, of the Interior) will be supplied with detaTTETEr a n-Jig bulletin on sport in Australia. + 
-SOCIAL REPORT: The Federation will benefit to the extent cf 74. 9. 3 7011777g upon finalisation of matters concerning the 1953 Ball. An Organiser for the 1954 Ball is wanted urgently! Please contact Paul Barnes at UB1351. +Jim Hooper will be the official contact man for the Section. XM6001 (Private) and BX5438 (Business). 
-CONSERVATION REPORT: The Parks and Playgrounds Movement is attempting to prov777-177e scale damage to beaches by mining for rutile, etc. The Wyong Shire Council has been contacted re taking of gravel from Frazer Park.+ 
 +=== Junior Vice-President: === 
 + 
 +Position has become vacant following upon the resignation of Tom Wardhaugh. Delegates would like to hear from any person interested in the position. 
 + 
 +=== News and Information Bureau: === 
 + 
 +(Dept. of the Interior) will be supplied with details for a news bulletin on sport in Australia. 
 + 
 +=== Social Report: === 
 + 
 +The Federation will benefit to the extent of £74. 9. 3 following upon finalisation of matters concerning the 1953 Ball. An Organiser for the 1954 Ball is wanted urgently! Please contact Paul Barnes at UB1351. 
 + 
 +=== Conservation Report: === 
 + 
 +The Parks and Playgrounds Movement is attempting to prevent large scale damage to beaches by mining for rutile, etc. The Wyong Shire Council has been contacted re taking of gravel from Frazer Park. 
 Further visits and correspondence have been undertaken for the Kariong Peninsula Reserve. Further visits and correspondence have been undertaken for the Kariong Peninsula Reserve.
-Reported that the Cumberland County Council desires support to save 500 acres of the 1,000 asres of reserve on the Kurnell Peninsula for scientific and recreational purposes. 
-Protests have been sent to Editor of "PIX" and Dushfire Committee concerning a coloured print showing a group of picnickers breaking the law on lighting fires in a Bushf ire Danger Period. 
-The effort to have Bunr f;onia Gorge dedicated as a National Monument has been carried forward by correspondence with the Metropolitm Portland Cement Company. 
-DUSHFIRE PATROLS in the National Park are proceeding and have been WFTT-17=IT67717 the Park Trust. The Patrols have successfully avertef, several fires and have been able to spread effective propaganda. Any person interested in assisting, Ring Barnes, UB1351. 
-WILL YOU HELP keep The Bouddi Natural Park primitive and yet accessible DIAL DINGELDEI FOR DETAILS ... UA 2983. 
-ERA - BLACKED2UT. (Reported 28/12/53). 
-The complexion of Era was changed greatly over the Christmas weekend. Local reports have it that on the previous Sunday lightning struck a tree on the tops near Maynard's Track: during the ensuing Black Monday (107.5 deg. in Sydney): fires burned from the Garb o road through to vicinity of Maynard's on the seaward side of the track, and right down to the edge of the grase3at South Era valley. Over the Christmas weekend further fires came oVer Thelma Head from vicinity of Little Garie, and were still burning on Sunday 27th. In brief, Era is virtually, an oasis in a blackened and ruined landscape. To date Burning Palms has escaped the worst of the fires. Water supply at both beaches is very low. 
-Well here we are faced with another clean slate on which to write minute by minute the story of cur lives. How will it read in twelve months' time when the year has run full cycle once more? 
  
-Shall we he a little nearer realisation of our cherished hopes? Shall we be able to tick off from our lists a few more places seen and trips achieved? The Dushwalker soon learns to plan for the mountains ahead yet keep his eyes on what's afoot and extract enjoyment from the passing scene.+Reported that the Cumberland County Council desires support to save 500 acres of the 1,000 acres of reserve on the Kurnell Peninsula for scientific and recreational purposes. 
 + 
 +Protests have been sent to Editor of "PIX" and Bushfire Committee concerning a coloured print showing a group of picnickers breaking the law on lighting fires in a Bushfire Danger Period. 
 + 
 +The effort to have Bungonia Gorge dedicated as a National Monument has been carried forward by correspondence with the Metropolitan Portland Cement Company. 
 + 
 +=== Bushfire Patrols... === 
 + 
 +in the National Park are proceeding and have been well received by the Park Trust. The Patrols have successfully averted several fires and have been able to spread effective propaganda. Any person interested in assisting, Ring Paul Barnes, UB1351. 
 + 
 +=== Will you help... === 
 + 
 +keep The Bouddi Natural Park primitive and yet accessible? Dial Dingeldei for details... UA 2983. 
 + 
 +---- 
 + 
 +=== Era - Blacked Out. (Reported 28/12/53). === 
 + 
 +The complexion of Era was changed greatly over the Christmas weekend. Local reports have it that on the previous Sunday lightning struck a tree on the tops near Maynard's Track: during the ensuing Black Monday (107.5 deg. in Sydney): fires burned from the Garie road through to vicinity of Maynard's on the seaward side of the track, and right down to the edge of the grass at South Era valley. Over the Christmas weekend further fires came over Thelma Head from vicinity of Little Garie, and were still burning on Sunday 27th. In brief, Era is virtually an oasis in a blackened and ruined landscape. To date Burning Palms has escaped the worst of the fires. Water supply at both beaches is very low. 
 + 
 +---- 
 + 
 +===== Paddy Made. ===== 
 + 
 +Well here we are faced with another clean slate on which to write minute by minute the story of our lives. How will it read in twelve months' time when the year has run full cycle once more? 
 + 
 +Shall we be a little nearer realisation of our cherished hopes? Shall we be able to tick off from our lists a few more places seen and trips achieved? The Bushwalker soon learns to plan for the mountains ahead yet keep his eyes on what's afoot and extract enjoyment from the passing scene. 
 Good luck, happy walking and good camping in the coming year. Good luck, happy walking and good camping in the coming year.
-For your enjoyment the Military have 
-produced another '"half map" 1" = 1 mile 
-f'Dimbera East. This practically completes detailed mapping of the Capital Territory. 
-DV PAWN Lightweight Camp Gear 
-20i CASTLEREAGH St SYDNEY 
-M2678 
  
 +For your enjoyment the Military have produced another "half map" 1" = 1 mile "Bimbera East". This practically completes detailed mapping of the Capital Territory.
 +
 +Paddy Pallin. Lightweight Camp Gear.
 +
 +201 Castlereagh St., Sydney. M2678.
 +
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