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- | No.263 | + | ^No.263^OCTOBER, 1956.^Price 9d.^ |
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- | |CONTENTS|Page| | + | ^CONTENTS^Page^ |
|At Our September, Half-Yearly Meeting - A.G.Colley|2| | |At Our September, Half-Yearly Meeting - A.G.Colley|2| | ||
|The Sanitarium Health Food Shop (Advt.)|3| | |The Sanitarium Health Food Shop (Advt.)|3| | ||
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|What a __Leader__! or __What__, a Leader? - Geof Wagg|17| | |What a __Leader__! or __What__, a Leader? - Geof Wagg|17| | ||
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Shall still his hunger, and his thirst he stays | Shall still his hunger, and his thirst he stays | ||
With wine of friendship from remembered days. | With wine of friendship from remembered days. | ||
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- Mostly David Morton. | - Mostly David Morton. | ||
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===AT OUR SEPTEMBER HALF-YEARLY MEETING=== | ===AT OUR SEPTEMBER HALF-YEARLY MEETING=== | ||
+ | - A.G. Colley. | ||
+ | The Meeting commenced at 8:20 with the President in the Chair and about 35 members present. First business was a welcome to our newest member - Margaret Innes. | ||
+ | Next Joan Walker, although not present, was elected to the Committee vacancy. As nobody wanted to be Federation delegate the election of a successor to Tom Kenny-Royal was deferred to the next meeting. | ||
- | The Meeting commenced at 8,20 with the President in the Chair | + | A motion was put by Heather Joyce and carried by the meeting, that we should write to the Sydney Morning Herald pointing out that a suggestion made by a correspondent for the formation of volunteer fire fighting squads |
- | and about 35 members present. First business was a welcome | + | |
- | newest member - Margaret Innes. | + | |
- | Next Joan Walker, although not present, was elected to the | + | The President conveyed the good, though unofficial, news that a large part of the survey work for the Blue Mountains National Park had been done, and that land north of the Western line and between Kings Tableland end the Cox might be declared as part of the park. |
- | Committee vacancy. As nobody wanted' | + | |
- | election | + | |
- | meeting. | + | |
- | A motion was pUt by Heather Joyce and carried by the meeting, | + | The proposed Constitutional amendment, designed to make the Literary Editor' |
- | that we should write to the Sydney Morning Herald pointing out that | + | |
- | a suggestion made by a correspondent for the formation of volunteer | + | |
- | fire fighting squads | + | |
- | carried out. | + | |
- | | + | The sub-committee appointed to report on the celebration |
- | a large part of the survey work for the Blue Mountains National | + | |
- | Park had been done, and that land north of the Western line and | + | |
- | between Kings Tableland end the Cox might be declared as part of the | + | |
- | park. | + | |
- | The proposed | + | General business started with a discussion of the printing of a new songbook. Frank Young pointed out that it was a big job and a typiste was essential on the proposed |
- | Literary Editor' | + | of songs but liked to sing and the book was for their benefit. |
- | wish of the Editor and of the general meeting, was not approved by | + | become popular. Jack Wren councilled more care in selection |
- | the Committee and failed | + | |
- | majority of the meeting. | + | |
- | | + | By this time nearly everybody at the meeting had had their say and the next motion provided an opportunity for the remainder. |
- | Club' | + | of intention to move should be sent to members, and the debate proceeded. Jack Wren supported the motion in this form. He said the library had served its purpose and now only harboured silverfish. Other speakers pointed out that this was just another attempt to whittle away yet another of the features which had made the Club what it is now, and instanced the discontinuance |
- | that no action be taken. | + | |
- | | + | Finally |
- | a new songbook. Frank Young pointed out that it was a big job and | + | carried; with which the meeting terminated. |
- | a typiste was esselatial on the proposed song-book committee. | + | |
- | Alan Wilson thought the song-book was a waste of time so far as camp | + | |
- | fire entertainment was concerned. It was seldom seen at camp fires | + | |
- | and added nothing to their enjoyment. Renee Brown, speaking from | + | |
- | long experience, said that 50% or more people didn't know the words | + | |
- | of songs but liked to sing and the book was for their benefit. | + | |
- | Jane Putt's opinion was that the best way to.learn, | + | |
- | listen while they were being sung. In reply to a question Jim Brown, | + | |
- | who was on the last Committee, said that the book had been designed | + | |
- | to prevent the singers from getting on to "la-la-la-la" | + | |
- | first few lines. About 300 song-books had been sold, and many songs | + | |
- | were included because some people | + | |
- | become popular. Jack Wren councilled more care in. selection of | + | |
- | songs as about a third.of the songs in the book were never sung. | + | |
- | A sub-committee consisting | + | |
- | Aird, Colin Putt, Margaret Innes and Yvonne Renwick was appointed. | + | |
- | to produce a new book. Next it was debated whether or not the | + | |
- | sub-committee should submit a list of proposed songs before | + | |
- | was typed. Frank Barlow thought we should trust the Committee - | + | |
- | the title didn't tell you anything about the song and many doubtful . | + | |
- | 3. | + | === THE SANITARIUM HEALTH FOOD SHOP === |
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+ | OFFERS | ||
+ | QUALITY DRIED FRUITS, NUTS and BISCUITS | ||
+ | DELICIOUS FRUIT SWEETS | ||
+ | WHOLSOME, LIGHT RY-KING CRISP BREAD | ||
+ | AMAZING, LOW ECONOMY PRICES | ||
+ | COME TO OUR STORE, 13 HUNTER STREET, SYDNEY | ||
+ | AND SEE OUR WONDERFUL RANGE. OF HEiLTH-FOODS | ||
+ | - FOR WALKING TRIPS AND HOME USE | ||
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- | THE SANITARIUM HEALTH FOOD SHOP | ||
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- | QUALITY DRIED FRUITS, NUTS and BISCUITS | ||
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- | DELICIOUS FRUIT SWEETS | ||
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- | WHOLSOME, LIGHT RY-KING CRISP BREAD | ||
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- | AMAZING, LOW ECONOMY PRICES | ||
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- | COME TO OUR STORE, | ||
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- | AND SEE OUR WONDERFUL RANGE. OF HEiLTH-FOODS | ||
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- | - FOR WALKING TRIPS AND HOME USE | ||
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- | songs had the most innocuous titles - and this seemed to be the | ||
- | general view. | ||
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- | By this time nearly everybody at the meeting had had their say | ||
- | and the next motion provided an opportunity for the remainder. | ||
- | Frank Ashdown moved that the library be disbanded, the books sold by | ||
- | auction and the money added to Club funds. The President immediately | ||
- | declared the motion, in the form proposed, to be unconstitutional, | ||
- | because a motion to sell the Club's assets required fourteen days | ||
- | notice to all members. The motion was altered to read that a notice | ||
- | of intention to move should be sent to members, and the debate | ||
- | proceeded. Jack Wren supported thn alotion in this form. He said the | ||
- | library had served its purpose and ow only harboured silverfish. | ||
- | Other speakers pointed out that this was just another attempt to | ||
- | whittle away yet another of the features which had made the Club hat | ||
- | it is now, and instanced the discontinuance of the Club 's Annua? | ||
- | Concerts, Christmas treat for children, the publication of the | ||
- | Eashwalker Annual etc. as cases in point. The motion was put and | ||
- | lost. (At the close of the meeting a crowd assembled outside the | ||
- | library cabinet and at least one member was seen to leave with fonr | ||
- | borrowed books in his hand.) | ||
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- | Finally a motion was put, rather tentatively, | ||
- | Prospectives be allowed to attend Re-unions. Wal Rootes spoke aalnat | ||
- | the motion saying it was, as its name implied, a re-union of me ml, | ||
- | But people were getting tired of debating, the hour was | ||
- | motion was put and (much to Jimrs secret surprise, I'm sure) was | ||
- | carried; | ||
- | - A.G. Colloy. | ||
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THE FRONTIERTRAVERSE | THE FRONTIERTRAVERSE | ||
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What on earth did 'tempo brutof mean? BQtter get up anyway. | What on earth did 'tempo brutof mean? BQtter get up anyway. | ||
- | The stars shone cold and bright, but the but shook and the guy | + | The stars shone cold and bright, but the but shook and the guy wires strummed and twanged in the grip of a vicious' |
- | wires strummed and twanged in the grip of a vicious' | + | circulation to fingers and toes, As we stepped into the Lys jock saddle the sun was already touching the top of the long steep ridge before us and the wind seemed less determined. |
- | misgivings about the weather we forced down some black bread, cheese | + | |
- | and coffee, then put on storm clothing, crampons and rope inside the | + | |
- | hut. As we stepped into the dark outside the wind enveloped us, it | + | |
- | smote and cut at us, it tried even to invade that corner of conscious- | + | |
- | ness which is reserved to control the placing of cramponed feet and the | + | |
- | handling of the rope. We nearly ran. down the broad ice ridge from | + | |
- | the Signalkuppe in our eagerness to escape the wind, and in the lee | + | |
- | of the Parrotspitze we were rewarded by an excruciating return of | + | |
- | circulation to fingers and toes, As we stepped into the Lys jock saddle | + | |
- | the sun was already touching the top of the long steep ridge before us | + | |
- | and the wind seemed less determined. | + | |
- | In two ropes of two we worked steadily up our ridge which was | + | In two ropes of two we worked steadily up our ridge which was very steep, very narrow, but not complicated by rock steps or ice overhangs. Wind crusted snow and blue ice alternated with bewildering |
- | very steep, very narrow, but not complicated by rock steps or ice | + | things and an hour and a half later we found ourselves rather |
- | overhangs. Wind crusted snow and blue ice alternated with bewilder- | + | unusually hot. With thoughts of soft snow later in the day we tight- rope walked the ridge at top speed, one foot in Switzerland, |
- | ing frequency, some large cornices required care, and sudden gusts | + | which had just come up the other side, with a guide who seemed to be something of a leg-puller. "Voila le Cervint" |
- | of wind tried to catch us off balance, but crampons overcame all these | + | |
- | things and an hour and a half later we found ourselves rather | + | |
- | tedly on the main summit of Lyskamm, a little sloping ice hummock | + | |
- | with sheer depths of rock and ice cliff all around it except to the | + | |
- | west where a mile or so of narrow winding ridge led to the other peak. | + | |
- | The wind had dropped right away,, the sky was cloudless and the sun | + | |
- | unusually hot. With thoughts of soft snow later in the day we tight- | + | |
- | rope walked the ridge at top speed, one foot in Switzerland, | + | |
- | in Italy, and the ice-axe. for a balancing pole. We were feeling fine | + | |
- | in spite of the altitude, and we raced over: the rock steps in the | + | |
- | ridge non-stop, crampons and all. On the West summit we found a party | + | |
- | which had just come up the other side, with a guide who seemed to be | + | |
- | something of a leg-puller. "Voila le Cervint" | + | |
- | patrons, pointing to the bulky unmistakable mass of Monte Rosa across | + | |
- | the way. | + | |
- | | + | At a good pace we cramponed down the west ridge ofe Lyskamm on to the Felikjoch, a broad snow plateau feeding two glaciers. Here we began to strike soft snow and really hot sun. We took off our crampons and ploughed on, The ridge up Castor is broad, gentle and long; under conditions of slushy snow and extreme heat it is best not remembered. The west side of the mountain, however, is not a ridge but a steep ice face, complete with bulges of hard blue ice, ice-. |
- | to the Felikjoch, a broad snow plateau feeding two glaciers. Here | + | cliffs and threatening seracs,. It was advisable to move one at a time over part of this, and when we had reached the saddle between Castor and Pollux and moved out from below the seracs, it was time for lunch. The meal was shortened by the reappearance of our old |
- | we began to strike soft snow and really hot sun. We took off our | + | |
- | crampons and ploughed on, The ridge up Castor is broad, gentle and | + | |
- | long; under conditions of slushy snow and extreme heat it is best | + | |
- | not remembered. The west side of the mountain, however, is not a | + | |
- | ridge but a steep ice face, complete with bulges of hard blue ice, ice-. | + | |
- | cliffs and threatening seracs,. It was advisable to move one at a | + | |
- | time over part of this, and when we had reached the saddle between | + | |
- | Castor and Pollux and moved out from below the seracs, it was time | + | |
- | for lunch. The meal was shortened by the reappearance of our old | + | |
- | PHOTOGRAPHY I 1? I t | + | PHOTOGRAPHY I |
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greatest of ease. | greatest of ease. | ||
- | | + | At last we reached the top, a short curved piece of snow ridge, and considered what to do next. The huge mass of the Breithorn was temptingly close, but it was getting late and the snow was becoming dangerously soft, in fact the immediate problem was how to get off Pollux without being mixed up with an avalanche. We chose the north |
- | | + | .face directly below us; in almost perpetual shadow, it had kept a thin layer of firm snow, well bonded to the ice. As we left the summit a few streaks of racing mist formed around us out of the clear sky; minutes later, as we prepared to leap the bergschrund, |
- | + | off down a broad snow ridge atA jog-trot, with the bad weather right behind us. On and on for hours, as fast as we could go, wallowing through knee-deep snow. There was one brief pause to negotiate a | |
- | 6. | + | steep and avalanchy slope, and another when I broke•throUgh a crevasse' |
- | + | thunder sounded out of black clouds on our peaks of the morning. | |
- | temptingly close, but it was getting late and the snow was becoming | + | |
- | dangerously soft, in fact the immediate problem was how to get off | + | |
- | Pollux without being mixed up with an avalanche. We chose the north | + | |
- | .face directly below us; in almost perpetual shadow, it had kept a | + | |
- | thin layer of firm snow, well bonded to the ice. As we left the | + | |
- | summit a few streaks of racing mist formed around us out of the clear | + | |
- | sky; minutes later, as we prepared to leap the bergschrund, | + | |
- | around us ' | + | |
- | off down a broad snow ridge atA jog-trot, with the bad weather right | + | |
- | behind us. On and on for hours, as fast as we could go, wallowing | + | |
- | through knee-deep snow. There was one brief pause to negotiate a | + | |
- | steep and avalanchy slope, and another when I broke•throUgh a | + | |
- | crevasse' | + | |
- | the left lateral moraine of the Gorner Glacier while volloys of | + | |
- | thunder sounded out of black clouds on our peaks of the morning. | + | |
- | Two miles of slithering and jumping over the ice-hummocks of the • | + | |
- | Gorner and we were safe on the track to Zermatt. I stopped to take | + | |
off two sweaters and a pair of long trousers, and raced off to catch | off two sweaters and a pair of long trousers, and raced off to catch | ||
up the others. People of various nationalities all along the track | up the others. People of various nationalities all along the track | ||
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- | COMING SOCIAL EVENTS for OCTOBER. | + | === COMING SOCIAL EVENTS for OCTOBER. |
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- | Oct. 17th. " | + | |Oct. 17th.|" |
- | | + | |Oct.24th.|MEMBERS' |
- | | + | |Oct.31.|SWITZERLAND.|Slides and talk by Don Shepherd.| |
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- | ••■1•=1.1. | + | |
- | Oct.24th. MEMBERS' | + | |
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- | Oct.31. | + | |
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