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-The Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia.+===== The Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia. ===== 
 Now here's a gang that really deserves your support. Cheap too! Just compare these rates for value. Now here's a gang that really deserves your support. Cheap too! Just compare these rates for value.
-Individuals 15/- per annum. Husband and wife 25/- per annum, students 2/6 per annum. Life membership is 7+ 
-This group adtively pursues the study of nature in the bush. Geology, geography, bird life, plants, animals - the works. Their next meeting is on Saturday, August 18 and is a field day at the Stony Range Flora Reserve, Dee Why Lagoon. The leaders are Messrs. A. Blombery and E. Gordon of the Stony Range Reserve Committee and Hr. J. Waterhouse. Under their expert guidance, +Individuals 15/- per annum. Husband and wife 25/- per annum, students 2/6 per annum. Life membership is £7. 
-an interesting day is assured. Meet at the entrane to the Stony Range Reserve, adjacent to Whittakers Timber Yard, Pittwater Road, Dee Why at 10.30 a m. Visitors welcome. + 
-The Society's main aim is to secure for future generations, Australia's +This group adtively pursues the study of nature in the bush. Geology, geography, bird life, plants, animals - the works. Their next meeting is on Saturday, August 18 and is a field day at the Stony Range Flora Reserve, Dee Why Lagoon. The leaders are Messrs. A. Blombery and E. Gordon of the Stony Range Reserve Committee and Hr. J. Waterhouse. Under their expert guidance, an interesting day is assured. Meet at the entrance to the Stony Range Reserve, adjacent to Whittakers Timber Yard, Pittwater Road, Dee Why at 10.30 a.m. Visitors welcome. 
-wealth of fascinating flora and fauna. This is no easy tas]..7. under the pressure of a rapidly growing civilisation. + 
-As Bushwalkers, it goes without saying that you're interested in all things in the bush; well, most of them, anyway.So lend your support to this very worthwhile cause. If you would like to join, as every bushwalker should, see your editor or write direct to - +The Society's main aim is to secure for future generations, Australia's wealth of fascinating flora and fauna. This is no easy task under the pressure of a rapidly growing civilisation. 
-The Secretary, + 
-Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia, Afrs Thistle Y. Stead (Harris) +As Bushwalkers, it goes without saying that you're interested in all things in the bush; well, most of them, anyway. So lend your support to this very worthwhile cause. If you would like to join, as every bushwalker should, see your editor or write direct to - 
-14 Pacific Street,+ 
 +The Secretary,\\ 
 +Wild Life Preservation Society of Australia,\\ 
 +Mrs Thistle Y. Stead (Harris)\\ 
 +14 Pacific Street,\\
 Watsons Bay. Tel. FU1838. Watsons Bay. Tel. FU1838.
-SOCIAL NEWS+ 
 +---- 
 + 
 +=== Social News. === 
 Two most fascinating lectures will be given during the month of August Two most fascinating lectures will be given during the month of August
-. MALCOLM McGREG-OR - WILD FLOWERS". + 
-Mrs. McComish - WITH TIE PEARLING FLEET-." +Malcolm McGregor "Wild Flowers". 
-August 1962 The Sydney Bushwalker 13 + 
-PLUMBING TROUBLES???. +Mrs. McComish - "With The Pearling Fleet". 
-DO YOU NEED - + 
-NEAT ROOFGUTTERING and DOWNPIPES ?? +---- 
-OR DOES + 
-THE ROOF AND GUTTERING NEED RE-PAINTING ?? +=== Plumbing Troubles??? === 
-OR. PERHAPS - + 
-A NEW WATER SERVICE OR HOT-WATER INSTALLATION ??+__Do you need__ new roofguttering and downpipes?? 
 + 
 +__Or does__ the roof and guttering need re-painting?? 
 + 
 +__Or perhaps__ a new water service or hot-water installation?? 
 No job is too small - for any plumbing installations or alterations No job is too small - for any plumbing installations or alterations
-YOU NEED ROY'S 'FRIENDLY' PLUIBING SERVICE - + 
-CONTACT ROY CRAGGS in the..B.0 Club-rooms or contact Joe Craggs,Carpenter and Painter, 41 Rosamond Street, Hornsby, TelephOne,.JU2203 +__You need Roy's friendly plumbing service__. 
-REMEMBER YOU NEED ROY 'S FRIENDLY SERVICE !!! + 
-FOR ALL YOUR TRANSPCRT FROM BLACEHEATH +Contact Roy Craggs in the S.B.W. Clubrooms or contact Joe Crags, Carpenter and Painter, 41 Rosamond Street, Hornsby, Telephone JU2203
-CONTACT + 
-HATSWELL'S TAXI AND TOURIST SERVICE +__Remember__ you need Roy's friendly service!!! 
-RINGWRITEWIRE OR CALL - ANY HOUR DAY' OR NIGHT + 
-BOOKING OFFICE:. 4 doors rom Gardners Inn Hotel (LOOK FOR THE NEON SIGN+---- 
-SPEEDY 5 or 8 PASSENGER CARS AVAILABLE LARGE OR SMALL PARTIES CATERED FOR + 
-FARESKANANGRA WAUS 30/-per head (minimum 5 passengers) +=== Hatswell's Taxi & Tourist Service. === 
-PERRY 'S LOOKDOWN 4/- + 
-JESOLAN STATE FOREST 20/- +For all your transport from Blackheath contact Hatswell's Taxi & Transport Service. Ringwritewire or call any hour day or night. 
-CARLON'S FARM.,. . 12/6 + 
-WE WILL BE PLEASED TO QUOTE TRIPS OR SPECIAL PARTIES ON APPLICATION +'PhoneBlackheath W459 of W151. 
-WM.; Blackheath w459 or W151 + 
-11 +Booking office: 4 doors from the Gardners Inn Hotel (look for the neon sign)
-t1 + 
-"Has the wild music of the hills taught +Speedy 5 or 8 passenger cars available. Large or small parties catered for. 
-us an undreamt depth in the stream of life?  Was it the song of the creek and the melting + 
- sno w, the breeze ringing the silver bells of ice +Fares: 
-on the snQw gum leaves"... c-fi + 
-There is snow oh the Alps, chaps  let's +  * Kanangra Walls: 30/- per head (minimum 5 passengers) 
-away and_PLough,a furrow across the unblemished +  * Perry's Lookdown: 4/- per head (minimum 5 passengers) 
-PADDY PAWN +  * Jenolan State Forest: 20/- per head (minimum 5 passengers) 
-Lightweight Camp Gear +  * Carlon's Farm: 12/6 per head (minimum 5 passengers) 
-201 CASTLE REACH St SYDNEY + 
-13M2685 +We will be pleased to quote trips or special parties on application. 
-August 1962 The Sydney Buehwalker + 
-COALUDING +---- 
-REPORT ?,-3F THE 1961 EXPEDL'IGY TO THE CARSTENSZ + 
-MOUNTAIN; (71, NETHEaLkans LTINtT GUINEA - :Leader Colin Putt, +=== Paddy Made. === 
-As this rolte up 'the North wall has only been seen and not actually_ traversed, afuture expedition approaching fromthe Worth' should hold its 'carriers at Lake piscovery, while making sure of this route, (there ie still a slight possibility'that itmight be necessary to push on to the Bakopa and the Dajak pass, and then get the _climbing food and equipment packed as closeto the ice asappears,to..be safe for naked carriers. + 
-Cratford and TempIe'then returned to 'their previous nights bivouac, and on the next day, the 27th, they moved three miles down the valley beloW the bivouac, to where the North-south ridges have lost much of their height and steepnessand cut across three ridges to retrn to the valley in whichowasothe: base camp. They arrived in camp at dusk, in heavy rain, to find that the air- - drOp had failed. +"Has the wild music of the hills taught\\ 
-On June 25, Cootier and Barfoot had set off down the left bank of the base'r camp stream and followed it down to its junction with the.Komaboe, They followed the left bank of the Kema'boe hero already a large river, forotkuo miles,'before it began to cut into a gorge of increasing depthwhile the shelfabove thegorge began to Support thick scrub  Thay therefore sought _easier going on the rolling tidges South of thEPZemaboe, and camped the first night at a native hunting.. bivouac on one of the ridges just beyond 'the stream which drains Lake Discovery. On the 26th they crossed the ridge to the North,-;West of Lake Discovery, and dropped into the large valley below the middle of the North wall From this point to the end of the ice-cap at the West end of thewall, the North-South ridges running out'from the wall are comparatively low. Cooper and Barfoot walked along below the full length of the North wall, less than a mile from the cliffs, although very. Steep and continuous the actual cliff is hero only a thoelsand:feet:hight at the +us an undreamt depth in the stream of life?\\ 
--most. At the West end of the wall, thy found their way intotheBakopa.-yalley +Was it the song of the creek and the melting\\ 
- blocked by the ridge on side, this ,is, near the wall', a very.6teep, +snow, the breeze ringing the silver bells of ice\\ 
-high, jagged rock ridgei to cross it it would be necessa.:Ey to move several miles +on the snow gum leaves.... ?" 
-to the North-East tothere it loses height and severity - this would involve travelling through thibk: scrubAfter taking pl lotographsCo,oper and.Barfoot,.: retraced their steps to near theirfirst night's bivouac, where they l'ound amuch + 
-better camp under a rock overhang. On June 28, they returned to camp directiyacross the ridges, which although broken and scrubby in apoearance yielded -a +There is snow oh the Alps, chaps let's away and plough a furrow across the unblemished snow. 
-reasonably fast and easy route.+ 
- A   ' . , +Paddy Pallin Pty. Ltd. Lightweight Camp Gear
-At the base camb,.three boffiresof fern fronds were_prepared:and thatched over to'keeP them dr. Tuesday, the 27th, the day on whichDe Eroonduif votild probably try to airdrop, began ivithrain,.but this stopped-at 8 a m(o-and the sky + 
- cleared'-eXeept'for some scatteredcloudand a eloudee cpon:tha snow mountains. +201 Castlereagh St., Sydney. BM2685. 
-At 9030 am, a twin,engined aircraft was heard, but not seen, well to the North of the Kemaboe river, and the signal fires were lit, Ey 9.45 the fires were beginning to fill the whole valley with smoke, and the plane, a DC3, was + 
-16 The Sydney Bushwalker August 1962 +---- 
-heard and seen returning on an Easterly course at an altitude of about 16,000 feet and ten to twelve miles North of the snow. It circled twice when almost due North of the camp, and disappeared toward Wamena. The failure to locate us and drop the supplies was largely due to the use of a + 
-large aircraft such as a DC3, as explained earlier, no other plane was available, but the chances of success without radio contact with the ground party and without srabre parachutes were slight in such rough country, partly covered by cloud. The detailed low-level search of the ground, followed by the drop from extreme +===== Concluding Report Of The 1961 Expedition To The Carstensz Mountains Of Netherlands New Guinea. ===== 
-low level with cloud covered mountains Close by, all at altitudes over 10,000 ft, woad be unjustifiably risky to such a large and clumsy aircraft. The weather Closed in again with heavy rain at 11 a mand remained very bad for the next day, no further attempt could be made to Airdrop, Our last rather forlorn hope of getting our supplies delivered had gone, but at least the flight had been made expeditiously, and the expedition had been saved the heavy cOst of repeated + 
-unsuccessful attempts. The re- a_to Ila a+Leader Colin Putt
-On the afternoon of June 28, both the reconnaissance parties having returned to camp, we went carefully through all our equipment and abandoned any excess weight which could possibly be sparedClothing and personal effects, medical supplies, and the climbing rope, tent fly, and the tent floor were left behindWe left on the morning of the 29th, carrying between forty and fifty pounds each, and with three and a half days full rations for a distancerwhich had taken five days on the inward journey. In fact, the return trip was done with ease in three + 
-and a half days because we short cut two detours which our native guides had made +As this route up the North wall has only been seen and not actually traversed, a future expedition approaching from the North should hold its carriers at Lake Discovery, while making sure of this route, (there ie still a slight possibility that it might be necessary to push on to the Bakopa and the Dajak pass, and then get the climbing food and equipment packed as close to the ice as appears to be safe for naked carriers. 
-to reach good camp spots, and because were were able to walk longer hours as we were better equipped to withstand the cold afternoon rain than the carriers had been. le now began to cook on our small emergency reserve of kerosine, which saved a Vast amount of time which would have otherwise been wasted in trying to light fires with the local wood. + 
-During the whole time since we had left Ilaga, there had been unfailing cold rain or hail in the afternoon and at night, and usually in the mornings as well. On the return trip the cold began to be felt by all of us, because of the poordiet and because our clothes and sleeping bags were by now saturated. However, the party arrived at Ilaga Mission at L. p m. on Sunday, 2nd July in good shape and just in time to contact the Mission Aviation Fellowship by radio and arrange to fly out to Marrena the next day as Back loading for planes which would be bringing Mission staff in to Ilaga. +Cratford and Temple then returned to their previous nights bivouac, and on the next day, the 27th, they moved three miles down the valley below the bivouac, to where the North-south ridges have lost much of their height and steepnessand cut across three ridges to retrn to the valley in which was the base camp. They arrived in camp at dusk, in heavy rain, to find that the air-drop had failed. 
-Titahelieu, the explorer and original discoverer of Ilaga, who was stationed at Ilaga during the Larsons' absence at the C,A.M.A. conference, made + 
-US welcome and provided us with food and accomodation for the night. On July 3 and +On June 25, Cooper and Barfoot had set off down the left bank of the basecamp stream and followed it down to its junction with the Komaboe. They followed the left bank of the Kemaboe here already a large river, for two miles, before it began to cut into a gorge of increasing depthwhile the shelf above the gorge began to support thick scrub. They therefore sought easier going on the rolling ridges South of the Kemaboe, and camped the first night at a native hunting bivouac on one of the ridges just beyond the stream which drains Lake Discovery. On the 26th they crossed the ridge to the North-West of Lake Discovery, and dropped into the large valley below the middle of the North wallFrom this point to the end of the ice-cap at the West end of the wall, the North-South ridges running out from the wall are comparatively low. Cooper and Barfoot walked along below the full length of the North wall, less than a mile from the cliffs, although very steep and continuous the actual cliff is here only a thousand feet high at the most. At the West end of the wall, they found their way into the Bakopa valley blocked by the ridge on its South-East side, this is, near the wall, a very steep, high, jagged rock ridge; to cross it it would be necessary to move several miles to the North-East to where it loses height and severity - this would involve travelling through thick scrubAfter taking photographsCooper and Barfoot retraced their steps to near their first night's bivouac, where they found a much better camp under a rock overhang. On June 28, they returned to camp directiy across the ridges, which although broken and scrubby in appearance yielded a reasonably fast and easy route. 
-4 the whole party and its remaining equipment was flown out to Wamena, and at + 
-the same-time seven of our Tiome carrierswho had not been able to get home +At the base camp, three bonfires of fern fronds were prepared and thatched over to keep them dry. Tuesday, the 27th, the day on which De Kroonduif would probably try to airdrop, began with rain,.but this stopped at 8 a.mand the sky cleared except for some scattered cloud and a cloud cap on the snow mountains. 
-because of the fighting in the West Baliem, were flown to Tiome as back-loading. + 
-The Sydney- Bushwalker 17. +At 9.30 a.m. a twin-engined aircraft was heard, but not seen, well to the North of the Kemaboe river, and the signal fires were lit. By 9.45 the fires were beginning to fill the whole valley with smoke, and the plane, a DC3, was heard and seen returning on an Easterly course at an altitude of about 16,000 feet and ten to twelve miles North of the snow. It circled twice when almost due North of the camp, and disappeared toward Wamena. The failure to locate us and drop the supplies was largely due to the use of a large aircraft such as a DC3, as explained earlier, no other plane was available, but the chances of success without radio contact with the ground party and without some parachutes were slight in such rough country, partly covered by cloud. The detailed low-level search of the ground, followed by the drop from extreme low level with cloud covered mountains close by, all at altitudes over 10,000 ft, would be unjustifiably risky to such a large and clumsy aircraft. The weather closed in again with heavy rain at 11 a.mand remained very bad for the next day, no further attempt could be made to airdrop. Our last rather forlorn hope of getting our supplies delivered had gone, but at least the flight had been made expeditiously, and the expedition had been saved the heavy cost of repeated unsuccessful attempts. 
-flight from Wamena to Hollandia on the 4th July, we airdrop attempt in detail with the Chief Pilot, + 
-August 1962 +=== The return to Ilaga=== 
-On the De Kroonduif + 
-were able to discuss the Captain J. Vintges. +On the afternoon of June 28, both the reconnaissance parties having returned to camp, we went carefully through all our equipment and abandoned any excess weight which could possibly be sparedClothing and personal effects, medical supplies, and the climbing rope, tent fly, and the tent floor were left behindWe left on the morning of the 29th, carrying between forty and fifty pounds each, and with three and a half days full rations for a distance which had taken five days on the inward journey. In fact, the return trip was done with ease in three and a half days because we short cut two detours which our native guides had made to reach good camp spots, and because were were able to walk longer hours as we were better equipped to withstand the cold afternoon rain than the carriers had been. We now began to cook on our small emergency reserve of kerosine, which saved a vast amount of time which would have otherwise been wasted in trying to light fires with the local wood. 
-In Hollandia, we enjoyed the hospitality of the heqd of the Department + 
-of Indland Fisheries, Mr. J. De Vries, for five days before flying out to Australian New Guinea. +During the whole time since we had left Ilaga, there had been unfailing cold rain or hail in the afternoon and at night, and usually in the mornings as well. On the return trip the cold began to be felt by all of us, because of the poor diet and because our clothes and sleeping bags were by now saturated. However, the party arrived at Ilaga Mission at p.m. on Sunday, 2nd July in good shape and just in time to contact the Mission Aviation Fellowship by radio and arrange to fly out to Wamena the next day as Back loading for planes which would be bringing Mission staff in to Ilaga. 
-DAY WALKS + 
-SEPTEMBER 12: Helensburgh - Wilson' Creek - Bola Heights - Burning Palms - +Mr. Titahelieu, the explorer and original discoverer of Ilaga, who was stationed at Ilaga during the Larsons' absence at the C.A.M.A. conference, made us welcome and provided us with food and accomodation for the night. On July 3 and 4 the whole party and its remaining equipment was flown out to Wamena, and at the same time seven of our Tiome carrierswho had not been able to get home because of the fighting in the West Baliem, were flown to Tiome as back-loading. 
-Otford. 12 miles. + 
-This approach from the Illawarra Railway to the Coast has not +On the De Kroonduif flight from Wamena to Hollandia on the 4th July, we were able to discuss the airdrop attempt in detail with the Chief Pilot, Captain J. Vintges. 
-been used for years. Something a little different. Could be scratchy in parts. + 
-8.42 a mWollongong train Central Steam Station to Helensburgh. Tickets: Otford return @ 7/8. MapPt. Hacking Tourist. Leader Jack Gentle. +In Hollandia, we enjoyed the hospitality of the head of the Department of Indland Fisheries, Mr. J. De Vries, for five days before flying out to Australian New Guinea. 
-SEPTEMBER 9: Wahroonga - Gibberagong Creek - Bobbin Trig - Cowan Creek - + 
-St. Ives (Warrimoo Rd.) +---- 
-A walk through the Southern portion ofKUringai Chase. Some of the + 
-wildflowers, which abound in this region shouldbe in bloom. There +===== Day Walks. ===== 
-are some aboriginal rock carvings en route. + 
-8.40 a m. Horns-LT train via Bridge from Central Electric Station +=== September 12: === 
-to Wahroonga. + 
-Rickets: Wahroonga return at 4/3 plus 1/1 bus fares Map: Broken Bay Military. +Helensburgh - Wilson'Creek - Bola Heights - Burning Palms - Otford. 12 miles. 
-Leader: David Ingram. + 
-Bill Bourke and Ron Knightly are planning a week's walkabout in The Castle+This approach from the Illawarra Railway to the Coast has not been used for years. Something a little different. Could be scratchy in parts. 
-area, commencing on the October holiday weekend. Other starters welcome - first come, first served; numbers limited, No strenuous types, pleases+ 
 +8.42 a.mWollongong train Central Steam Station to Helensburgh. Tickets: Otford return @ 7/8. MapPt. Hacking Tourist. LeaderJack Gentle. 
 + 
 +=== September 9: === 
 + 
 +Wahroonga - Gibberagong Creek - Bobbin Trig - Cowan Creek - St. Ives (Warrimoo Rd.) 
 + 
 +A walk through the Southern portion of Kuringai Chase. Some of the wildflowers, which abound in this region should be in bloom. There are some aboriginal rock carvings en route. 
 + 
 +8.40 a.m. Hornsby train via Bridge from Central Electric Station to Wahroonga. Tickets: Wahroonga return at 4/3 plus 1/1 bus fare. Map: Broken Bay Military. Leader: David Ingram. 
 + 
 +---- 
 + 
 +Bill Bourke and Ron Knightly are planning a week's walkabout in The Castle area, commencing on the October holiday weekend. Other starters welcome - first come, first served; numbers limited, No strenuous types, please! 
 + 
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 If something's free, you can expect the bushwalkers to be in it. Thus, when the Sydney - Auckland telephone cable was officially opened in July, it wasn't long before Jack Hunter and Ron Knightly were having a chat "on the house". Jack, Joan and family are reported to be in good form. If something's free, you can expect the bushwalkers to be in it. Thus, when the Sydney - Auckland telephone cable was officially opened in July, it wasn't long before Jack Hunter and Ron Knightly were having a chat "on the house". Jack, Joan and family are reported to be in good form.
 +
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 +
 From "Footprints", the journal of the Auckland University Tramping Club:- From "Footprints", the journal of the Auckland University Tramping Club:-
-'What unthinking person would send a copy of "Footprints" to I. Sydney B ushwalker? Well, there was no nasty reply and "The Sydney Bushwalker" came as usual!" + 
-18 ThcSidneiBushwalker August 1962 +"What unthinking person would send a copy of "Footprints" to Mr. Sydney Bushwalker? Well, there was no nasty reply and "The Sydney Bushwalker" came as usual!" 
-'+ 
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