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- | Many times over the years the matter of a hut of our own at Kosciusko has come up for discussion, and the subject has been received and debated and thrashed out with varying degrees of enthusiasm, but out latest effort to aquire | + | Many times over the years the matter of a hut of our own at Kosciusko has come up for discussion, and the subject has been received and debated and thrashed out with varying degrees of enthusiasm, but out latest effort to acquire |
1. __We already have a hut selected__. Last year the Snowy Mt. Authority advertised for sale and removal various huts which had completed their term of usefulness to the Snowy project. At a Gen. Meeting Dave Brown moved that we write for particulars, | 1. __We already have a hut selected__. Last year the Snowy Mt. Authority advertised for sale and removal various huts which had completed their term of usefulness to the Snowy project. At a Gen. Meeting Dave Brown moved that we write for particulars, | ||
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3. __Labour__. The enthusiasm shown for this part of the project is overwhelming. Neil estimates that it should not take more than twelve people a week-end to dismantle and shift the hut to its new site (yet to be selected.) There is every indication that there will be more than enough willing workers and plenty of transport vehicles available. | 3. __Labour__. The enthusiasm shown for this part of the project is overwhelming. Neil estimates that it should not take more than twelve people a week-end to dismantle and shift the hut to its new site (yet to be selected.) There is every indication that there will be more than enough willing workers and plenty of transport vehicles available. | ||
- | Peter Stitt has ascertained that the Park Trust will hire us a truck for £35 (and a reasonable amount per mile for running charges), and if the site chosen if off the road, we are assured by our building experts, chief among them John Scott and Neil, that the dismantled sections of hut will not be too heavy or unweildy | + | Peter Stitt has ascertained that the Park Trust will hire us a truck for £35 (and a reasonable amount per mile for running charges), and if the site chosen if off the road, we are assured by our building experts, chief among them John Scott and Neil, that the dismantled sections of hut will not be too heavy or unwieldy |
A Committee, consisting of Alex Colley, Neil Monteith, Peter Stitt, Stan Madden, Bob Duncan and John Scott, has been appointed to go further into the matter when details as to cost of foundations, | A Committee, consisting of Alex Colley, Neil Monteith, Peter Stitt, Stan Madden, Bob Duncan and John Scott, has been appointed to go further into the matter when details as to cost of foundations, | ||
- | Everyone, old and new members alike, are particularly asked to come along to the next General Meeting (Wed. 12th Dec.) for the sheer pleasure of beingp resent | + | Everyone, old and new members alike, are particularly asked to come along to the next General Meeting (Wed. 12th Dec.) for the sheer pleasure of being present |
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The proposal to establish a National Parks Assn. in Sydney was also endorsed. (See Page 18 for further details). | The proposal to establish a National Parks Assn. in Sydney was also endorsed. (See Page 18 for further details). | ||
- | The remainder of the meeting was occupied by a discussion initiated by Frank Ashdown as to whether or not an orbituary | + | The remainder of the meeting was occupied by a discussion initiated by Frank Ashdown as to whether or not an obituary |
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- | FEDERATION REPORT NOVEMBER | + | ===== Federation Report, November. ===== |
- Allen A. Strom, | - Allen A. Strom, | ||
- | The Sydney Technical College Bushwalkers will hold their Tenth Annual | + | The Sydney Technical College Bushwalkers will hold their __Tenth |
- | anEonia Gorapi | + | __Bungonia Gorge__: |
- | Colong-Church Creek: Three leases to mine limestone will be given | + | |
- | over parts of the reserve for the preservation of caves in the Colong-Church Creek area, The Trust of the reserve has agreed to the mining operations under certain conditions. The Dept. of Lands has | + | |
- | been asked to supply us with the details of these conditions. A | + | |
- | protest on mining in the reserve has been sent to the Superintendent of Caves. It appears that it is proposed to take the limestone to | + | |
- | Maldon by aerial ropeway and that the tie up of capital and organisa. | + | |
- | tions is very considerable. | + | |
- | Myall Lakes: The Fauna Protection Panel has recommended that 15/000 acres lying between Seal Rocks and Mungo Brush, the Myall Lakes and the sea, be declared a Faunal Reserve. | + | __Colong-Church Creek__: Three leases to mine limestone will be given over parts of the reserve for the preservation of caves in the Colong-Church Creek area. The Trust of the reserve has agreed to the mining operations under certain conditions. The Dept. of Lands has been asked to supply us with the details of these conditions. A protest on mining in the reserve has been sent to the Superintendent of Caves. It appears that it is proposed to take the limestone to Maldon by aerial ropeway and that the tie up of capital and organisations is very considerable. |
- | National | + | |
- | Conference of Conservation Bodies in 1955 relative to a National Parks Act, the Minister for Lands has had information and data collected | + | __Myall Lakes__: The Fauna Protection Panel has recommended that 15,000 acres lying between Seal Rocks and Mungo Brush, the Myall Lakes and the sea, be declared a Faunal Reserve. |
- | from.numerous sources. He has proposed that a group from the Conference should discuss the proposed Act with him early in 1957. | + | |
- | The Information Officer (Paul Driver) is still not receiving the | + | __National |
- | support necessary to make his work successful. Walks Leaders are especially asked to supply information requested and to make it suitable for beginners. | + | |
- | Arrangements are being made for a Walk on | + | __The Information Officer (Paul Driver)__ is still not receiving the support necessary to make his work successful. Walks Leaders are especially asked to supply information requested and to make it suitable for beginners. |
- | Burning | + | |
- | The position of Publicity Officer | + | Arrangements are being made for a __Junior |
- | Does any member wish to volunteer for a ILT11_212112E_calni.L.L22y | + | |
- | WHERE ARE OUR WANDERING BOYS? 15. LETTER FROM ROSSO IN ENGLAND. | + | The position of __Publicity Officer__ |
- | Mr, Ross Laird, | + | |
- | Flat 6, 57 Netherall Gardens, | + | Does any member wish to volunteer for a __Trail Blazing Committee__? |
- | HAMPSTEAD. N.W.3. | + | |
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+ | ===== Where Are Our Wandering Boys? ===== | ||
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+ | === Letter from Rosso in England. === | ||
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+ | Mr. Ross Laird,\\ | ||
+ | Flat 6, 57 Netherall Gardens,\\ | ||
+ | Hampstead. N.W.3. | ||
Hullo Everyone, | Hullo Everyone, | ||
- | I must start this letter with mad apologies for not having written to you people in all the time I've been away. There' | ||
- | So far I've had a fabulous time. Met up with a really good crowd on the ship and finished up by practically wrecking the-Oronsay and driving everybody crazy with our noise, | ||
- | Spent the first nine days in looking round London, Rather disappointed at first, but after two or three days learnt to disregard the filth of the buildings and the millions of pigeons and consequent ly the muck they leave behind, and now think it is a really fabulous place. | ||
- | On the tenth day we left - 4 girls and three boys - on a cycling trip. Took the train to Oxford and from there went to Harwell when I met Ken ' | ||
- | Spent the next week in seeing more of London, as well as a trip to Windsor Castle - a really fascinating place. Then just as I was tbinkipg of looking for a job I fell backwards out of the attic here as I was putting away a couple of suitcases, and finished up with Concussion-andtafracturedrightwrist. which waspventuallyput.. in plaster , | ||
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- | _ . Dear_ anyone who reads: this, | ||
- | No, I haven' | ||
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- | You Oa be wondering what J have hden doing inCe Wells to tell the truth, not much. -. I've ) been a' | ||
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- | Un.for-Punately the weather played havociiith night bff | ||
- | the bus IAD tried to sleep out but about 0130 er,ep' tent. | ||
- | Nice wet bags, And: 1-Laked,-; pr-jria-. -.6,F.;, oozed | ||
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- | Lake Ohau on the left. Very pleasant when curled up inside a bag with ;the rain drifting down and the thought of the other miserable beds in the party cowering in their rain-sodden tents in a clump of beech trees in the middle of the valley.' | ||
- | 17; | + | I must start this letter with mad apologies for not having written to you people in all the time I've been away. There' |
- | able by the great volumes of saturated smoke that came pouring out as some poor member "threw another log an the fire." All this framed in a natural rock border created one of the most superb aspects I have ever had for a camp-site. | + | |
- | On the Sunday we had a go at Rabbiter' | + | So far I've had a fabulous time. Met up with a really good crowd on the ship and finished up by practically wrecking the Oronsay and driving everybody crazy with our noise. |
- | We plodded our way up steep tussockl.slopes for about 300 ft before starting the long trudge through wet snow to the leading ridge. On reaching it the weather turned to the worst - or really another | + | |
- | surge of wind brought the sled-ton | + | Spent the first nine days in looking round London. Rather disappointed at first, but after two or three days learnt to disregard the filth of the buildings and the millions of pigeons and consequently the muck they leave behind, and now think it is a really fabulous place. |
- | turn back. If some of you had been with us it would have been a' | + | |
+ | On the tenth day we left - 4 girls and three boys - on a cycling trip. Took the train to Oxford and from there went to Harwell when I met Ken Meadows at the Youth Hostel quite accidentally and from there to Stow-on-the-Wold in the Cotswold Hills, On to Bourton-on-the-Water, | ||
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+ | Spent the next week in seeing more of London, as well as a trip to Windsor Castle - a really fascinating place. Then just as I was thinking of looking for a job I fell backwards out of the attic here as I was putting away a couple of suitcases, and finished up with concussion and a fractured right wrist which was eventually put in plaster yesterday after a few weeks of X-Rays and crepe bandages, and there it stays for at least five weeks according to the hospital. "Lucky ole' Laird" they call me! | ||
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+ | I'm now one of the idle - unfortunately there' | ||
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+ | Haven' | ||
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+ | All the best to everybody, | ||
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+ | Ross. | ||
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+ | === Letter from Garth in New Zealand. === | ||
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+ | Mr. Garth Coulter, | ||
+ | C/- Otago Catchment Board,\\ | ||
+ | Moray Place, Dunedin. N.Z. | ||
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+ | Dear anyone who reads this, | ||
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+ | No, I haven' | ||
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+ | You'll be wondering what I have been doing with myself since arrival. Well, to tell the truth, not much. I've been away a couple of times with the Otago Tramping Club, over Mt. Druit (6, | ||
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+ | Next day (Sat.) reared - well, hardly; the rest of the mob were so heavily laden they couldn' | ||
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+ | On the Sunday we had a go at Rabbiter' | ||
As usual, the weather cleared up for us the day we left, giving perfect views of the Maitland Range brilliantly white in the sun with its fresh fall of snow. | As usual, the weather cleared up for us the day we left, giving perfect views of the Maitland Range brilliantly white in the sun with its fresh fall of snow. | ||
- | Other than that there has been little else to talk about trips home, trips to Christchurch, | + | |
+ | Other than that there has been little else to talk about - trips home, trips to Christchurch, | ||
Flat hunting, of course. I think I have located a suitable one at last. I should be into it by the time your party hits N.Z. so I expect at least a couple of nights of your company as you pass through - sleeping bags on the floor for you people, of course. | Flat hunting, of course. I think I have located a suitable one at last. I should be into it by the time your party hits N.Z. so I expect at least a couple of nights of your company as you pass through - sleeping bags on the floor for you people, of course. | ||
- | One request. Could you buy up some gipara (that doesn' | + | |
+ | One request. Could you buy up some gipara (that doesn' | ||
Here's a special mention for Stitt. How are you, you great ape? Haven' | Here's a special mention for Stitt. How are you, you great ape? Haven' | ||
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And how's Snow me boy? A fair effort on that Kanangra trip - wish I had been with you. There are lots of things I have missed since leaving Sydney, and though I hate to admit it, your ugly mug snoring its head off at nights is one. | And how's Snow me boy? A fair effort on that Kanangra trip - wish I had been with you. There are lots of things I have missed since leaving Sydney, and though I hate to admit it, your ugly mug snoring its head off at nights is one. | ||
- | I'm just about out of news - only thing left is work and T won't bore you with details. Should be getting a land rover next week so will have something to show you round Dunedin with. If you could use a motor bike and side-box in any of your travels here, just yell and the.bestus little machine in New.Zealand (which includes Syd4ey and Per-qaas outer suburbs) is at your disposal. Let me tell you it's in perfect order as it always was and is, only the advance-retard cable is busted, the tail light works occasionally, | ||
- | I must go. Bye for now. Give my regards to all the mob. GARTH. | ||
- | 18. | ||
- | CONSERVATION REPORT | + | I'm just about out of news - only thing left is work and I won't bore you with details. Should be getting a land rover next week so will have something to show you round Dunedin with. If you could use a motor bike and side-box in any of your travels here, just yell and the bestus little machine in New Zealand (which includes Sydney and Perth as outer suburbs) is at your disposal. Let me tell you it's in perfect order as it always was and is, only the advance-retard cable is busted, the tail light works occasionally, |
- | Tom Moppett. | + | |
- | - Conservation Sec. | + | I must go. Bye for now. Give my regards to all the mob. |
- | PROPOSED CLUE MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK: The Dept. of Lands is pressing on with this proposal and expects to effect the reservation in the first half of 1957. | + | |
- | ERSKINE CREEK IN THE BLUE LABRYNTH TO BE A STATE FOREST: This area is parf77-71 | + | __Garth__. |
- | It is most disappointing that the promise not to allow timber- getting in the area has not been kept nevertheless we,must'consider the needs of the community and the best use of the land under discussion. Also, State forests can be valuable to adjacent National | + | |
- | Parks in the matter of fire protection. I believe that the only | + | ---- |
- | course is to accept the- situation and do our best to further cooperation between the Forest and the Park, and that we should inform | + | |
- | the Conservation Dept. of this. There is an impression that the Conservation bodies generally have tended to request reservation for recreation of every piece of bushland in sight without regard to the best use of the land and the varied requirements of the community. | + | ===== Conservation Report |
- | I feel that we should show that we do, in fact, look at conservation matters with a much wider viewpoint than than of bushwalking only. | + | |
- | PROPOSED NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION: The " | + | Tom Moppett - Conservation Sec. |
- | In Newcastle the Northern Parks and Playgrounds Movement has decided to restriCt | + | |
- | Briefly, the purposes of an N.P.A,'are to take up with Governments and Governmental Depts. matters concerning national parks and areas suitable for national parks, and to inform members and the general public concerning national parks, and create public support for them. Some advantages of a single organisation concentrating | + | === Proposed Blue Mountains National Park: === |
- | on this work, as against numerous organisations nibbling here and there with little or no co-ordination, | + | |
- | Problems can be discussed and policies decided and work coordinated much more easily and quickly. | + | The Dept. of Lands is pressing on with this proposal and expects to effect the reservation in the first half of 1957. |
- | 19, | + | |
- | ' | + | === Erskine Creek in the Blue Labrynth to be a State Forest: === |
- | spirldf 'unity. arid , | + | |
- | Any meMber | + | This area is part of the area set aside in about 1943 following representations |
- | Mr. Strom and I visited Newcastle on 20th October to discuss_ | + | |
- | The main'points decided were:- | + | It is most disappointing that the promise not to allow timber-getting in the area has not been kept - nevertheless we must consider the needs of the community and the best use of the land under discussion. Also, State forests can be valuable to adjacent National Parks in the matter of fire protection. I believe that the only course is to accept the situation and do our best to further cooperation between the Forest and the Park, and that we should inform the Conservation Dept. of this. There is an impression that the Conservation bodies generally have tended to request reservation for recreation of every piece of bushland in sight without regard to the best use of the land and the varied requirements of the community. I feel that we should show that we do, in fact, look at conservation matters with a much wider viewpoint than than of bushwalking only. |
- | i That the association should be one af_individuals, rather than | + | |
- | a federation of organisations. The advantages of a single-organisation have been stated above, and individual members are required for public support and to provide | + | === Proposed National Parks Association: === |
- | The association should be organised on a regional or area basis, with each region electing representatives to a State Council, | + | |
- | which would be the controlling body of the. association. | + | The " |
- | The N.P. & in Sydney and visional when | + | |
- | Was formed on | + | In Newcastle the Northern Parks and Playgrounds Movement has decided to restrict |
- | P.M. agreed to foreshadow the formation of a Region a State Council and to make the constitution | + | |
- | the " | + | Briefly, the purposes of an N.P.A. are to take up with Governments and Governmental Depts. matters concerning national parks and areas suitable for national parks, and to inform members and the general public concerning national parks, and create public support for them. Some advantages of a single organisation concentrating on this work, as against numerous organisations nibbling here and there with little or no co-ordination, |
- | the 6th November. | + | |
- | Mr. Strom and I have been acting as unofficial representatives | + | * Problems can be discussed and policies decided and work coordinated much more easily and quickly. |
- | of all the Conservation bodies. We propose to discuss the matter | + | |
- | A HYDROPHOBIC EXTRACT' | + | * A spirit of unity and common |
- | "How I hate the sound of water - a substance which has brought misery to countless humans. In it, every disgusting. parasite finds a ready host - cholera, typhoid, dysentery, | + | |
- | Whatever | + | Any member |
- | and it stinks. Put it in 'a.cask and it breeds slime and mould. | + | |
- | I can never understand why GovernMents | + | Mr. Strom and I visited Newcastle on 20th October to discuss |
- | Excerpt from Walter James! " | + | |
- | or_ | + | The main points decided were:- |
- | kr; | + | |
- | -1(f. | + | * That the association should be one of individuals, rather than a federation of organisations. The advantages of a single-organisation have been stated above, and individual members are required for public support and to provide |
- | N't 4e--.00k | + | |
- | PITY POOR PADDY.....and his offsiders, and do yourself a good turn by shopping early for Xmas. | + | |
- | Avoid irritating waiting and it unwilling milling around Paddy' | + | |
- | Make up your list now and get it over. Ring up and we'll get it ready for you. Write and we'll-sen444-1.-- | + | Mr. Strom and I have been acting as unofficial representatives of all the Conservation bodies. We propose to discuss the matter with the rest of the Federation Conservation Bureau and suggest that Federation be asked to bring it before the other Conservation bodies. |
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+ | === A Hydrophobic Extract: === | ||
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+ | Sent in by Frank Ashdown, (who manufactures parsnip wine under his house). | ||
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+ | "How I hate the sound of water - a substance which has brought misery to countless humans. In it, every disgusting parasite finds a ready host - cholera, typhoid, dysentery, malaria. | ||
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+ | Whatever | ||
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+ | I can never understand why Governments | ||
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+ | Excerpt from Walter James' | ||
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+ | ===== Paddy Made. ===== | ||
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+ | === Pity Poor Paddy..... === | ||
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+ | And his offsiders, and do yourself a good turn by shopping early for Xmas. | ||
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+ | Avoid irritating waiting and unwilling milling around Paddy' | ||
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+ | Make up your list now and get it over. | ||
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+ | Ring up and we'll get it ready for you. | ||
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+ | Write and we' | ||
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+ | === A few ideas for the holidays:- === | ||
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+ | Paddy has plenty of packs, sleeping bags, tents, groundsheets and all the trimmings. | ||
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+ | There are 6 different sizes of plastic bottles from half a pint to one gallon. | ||
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+ | Small primus stoves (burn Shellite) Price 53/6. Good for that Tassie trip. Buy one and have breakfast in bed. | ||
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+ | " | ||
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+ | __Happy Christmas to all walkers from Paddy and his staff.__ | ||
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+ | Paddy Pallin. Lightweight Camp Gear. | ||
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+ | 201 Castlereagh St., Sydney. Phone: BM2685. | ||
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