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 ===== Poets Corner =====
-As Club Laureate, I hereby publish the results of the Poetry Competition. Entries were varied as you can see, but only the best have been included here; all poems are initialled (I have the Proper Names in my Safe Deposit. Wouldn't want them stolenl) The comments are done in a flippant manner so the authors and authoresses shouldn't take offence. Lastly, the prize is not being awarded, because friends dropped in and: we drank,it.
+As Club Laureate, I hereby publish the results of the Poetry Competition. Entries were varied as you can see, but only the best have been included here; all poems are initialled (I have the Proper Names in my Safe Deposit. Wouldn't want them stolen!) The comments are done in a flippant manner so the authors and authoresses shouldn't take offence. Lastly, the prize is not being awarded, because friends dropped in and we drank it.
-Boronia is a smelly bush
-I pick alone and never with push
+Boronia is a smelly bush\\
-Then to my puppy I say ilmoosh
+I pick alone and never with push\\
-And he breaks the shrub with a mighty "whoosh". D.I.
+Then to my puppy I say "moosh"\\
+And he breaks the shrub with a mighty "whoosh".\\
+D.I.
 There is something wrong with your grammar, and obviously you are not conservation minded.
-I'm not a hairy Aryan Or a noble Hungarian Not even a Barbarian I'm a nonvegetarian
-centenarian. D. B.
-Your verse is terse and your rhythm worse. 4i lines foul it up too. Haven't you any literary friends to help you?
-Beware of Christine Austin, folks
-She has a strange idea of jokes
-Five ton boulders she pries and pokes
-And rolls them onto girls and blokes. F.R.
-Interesting in its historical value. Incidentally, it was the only poem' - received with a name in it. Quite an honour. I gave this to a psychiatrist and he advises the writer to take lots of Valium.
-. .:
-Never walk with a giggling gertie Never walk with anyone shertie Never walk with anyone dirty
-I wish I was young and not over 30.
-I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments. That touch of up the rhythm and has lateral thinking all through it. The cry. Also, Webster's doesn't have the last word in the 2nd you have not read the rules closely.
-nostalgia breaks last line-made me line, therefore,
-Across that river where Charon's boat it,
-Or the Garden of Eden,, or the Land of the Lotis.
-Wherever you're sent; by popular vote is
-Bushwalkers are King Pins. Jim Vatiliotis
-This entry is yery. good. -The ONLY one to include a signature. I particularly like the way you have spread Heaven, dell and Purgatory over 3 different cultures, and religions, AND woven them amongst the different millennia. Jim, please check your spelling of Lotus.
+I'm not a hairy Aryan\\
+Or a noble Hungarian\\
+Not even a Barbarian\\
+I'm a nonvegetarian\\
+Centenarian.\\
+D.B.
+Your verse is terse and your rhythm worse. 4½ lines foul it up too. Haven't you any literary friends to help you?
+Beware of Christine Austin, folks\\
+She has a strange idea of jokes\\
+Five ton boulders she pries and pokes\\
+And rolls them onto girls and blokes.\\
+F.R.
+Interesting in its historical value. Incidentally, it was the only poem received with a name in it. Quite an honour. I gave this to a psychiatrist and he advises the writer to take lots of Valium.
+Never walk with a giggling gertie\\
+Never walk with anyone shertie\\
+Never walk with anyone dirty\\
+I wish I was young and not over 30.\\
+G.W
+I wholeheartedly agree with your sentiments. That touch of nostalgia breaks up the rhythm and has lateral thinking all through it. The last line made me cry. Also, Webster's doesn't have the last word in the 2nd line, therefore, you have not read the rules closely.
+Across that river where Charon's boat it,\\
+Or the Garden of Eden,, or the Land of the Lotis.\\
+Wherever you're sent; by popular vote is\\
+Bushwalkers are King Pins.\\
+Jim Vatiliotis
+This entry is very good. The ONLY one to include a signature. I particularly like the way you have spread Heaven, Hell and Purgatory over 3 different cultures, and religions, AND woven them amongst the different millennia. Jim, please check your spelling of Lotus.
+Walking makes me healthy and thin.\\
+Out Canberra way (let mystery begin)\\
+I fell and damaged my hip, shoulder and shin.\\
+A perfect place to go for a spin.\\
+R.P.
+Anybody who lives in Canberra deserves whatever he gets.
+On a walk, don't think of sex\\
+(If I do, I take a Bex)\\
+On my system it makes checks,\\
+So other muscles I do flex.\\
+S.H
-Walking makes me healthy and thin. Out Canberra way (let mystory begin)
-I fell and damaged my hip, shoulder and shin. A perfect place to go for a spin.
-R. P.
-Anybody who litres in'Canberra deserves whatever he gets.
-* * * * * *
-On a walk, don't think of sex (If I do, I take a Bex)
-On my system it makes checks, So other muscles I do flex.
 Quite clever, but not in keeping with the tone of this magazine. SHAME.
-,* * -X- * *
-Eat no mush, never rush
-And you will find that life is lush. P. B.
+Eat no mush, never rush\\
+And you will find that life is lush.\\
+P. B.
 This is woeful. Puerile. The rules stated 4 lines. Your I.Q. must be nihil.
-* * * * * *
-On a walk I never talk.
-As. 7. Diff cliffs I never balk.
+On a walk I never talk.\\
-All I ever eat is pork,
+And Diff cliffs I never balk.\\
-And as for drink pop goes the cork. 0.M.
+All I ever eat is pork,\\
-What an admission: You deserve to be thrown out of the Club., Or thrOwn to the lions for that matter.
+And as for drink- pop goes the cork.\\
-Just past Kanangra, Aboriginals I saw.
+O.M.
-Explorers followed with their axe and saw.
-Buihwilkers scurrying with feet all sore.
+What an admission! You deserve to be thrown out of the Club. Or thrown to the lions for that matter.
-I gave a flMopoke And continued to soar. P.C.
-A touch of genius. I like this whole idea the composition and your style. You have kept it simple and yet have taken us on a flight, down the centuries. Full mar ks:
-Page 12 THE SYDNEY BUSH1ALKER APRIL, 1979
+Just past Kanangra, Aboriginals I saw.\\
-The Prospec4ives? I try to wean 'em
+Explorers followed with their axe and saw.\\
-Away from cleanliness. Why, I've seen 'em
+Bushwalkers scurrying with feet all sore.\\
-Scrub outside their Billies when trying to clean tem. Obviously, they're lower than, a snakes duodenum. G.L.
+I gave a "Mopoke" and continued to soar.\\
- A:so full marks for being topical, but terribly inaccurate. Quite a nice first attempt. You should go far. Preferably to the Himalayas.
+P.C.
-* * * * -X-
-ON TAKING TAKING COMPASS BEARINGS
+A touch of genius. I like this whole idea the composition and your style. You have kept it simple and yet have taken us on a flight, down the centuries. Full marks!
-If you have a hacking cOUGH
-Steady your compass on a bOUGH
+The Prospectives? I try to wean 'em\\
-And even though the country's rOUGH
+Away from cleanliness. Why, I've seen 'em\\
-You'll all be led quite safely thrOUGH V.L
+Scrub outside their Billies when trying to clean them.\\
+Obviously, they're lower than, a snakes duodenum.\\
+G.L.
+Also full marks for being topical, but terribly inaccurate. Quite a nice first attempt. You should go far. Preferably to the Himalayas.
+ON TAKING TAKING COMPASS BEARINGS\\
+If you have a hacking cOUGH\\
+Steady your compass on a bOUGH\\
+And even though the country's rOUGH\\
+You'll all be led quite safely thrOUGH\\
+V.L
 This is very good. It never ceases to amaze, the variety and quality of the S.B.W. members' contributions. By your choice of subject, clearly you must never be lost or delayed; doubtless you would never have an accident.
-If they couldn't have popped her
-In the helicopter
-After the stone copped her,
+If they couldn't have popped her\\
-Down a cliff they should have dropped her. R. H.
+In the helicopter\\
+After the stone copped her,\\
+Down a cliff they should have dropped her. \\
+R.H.
 I don't get the meaning of this one. Clever in its rhyming, though. You sound quite callous and unloved.
--X-- * * * *
-TITHER SLITHER HITHER
-THITHER J.B.
+TITHER\\
-a Perfect word
+SLITHER\\
-pictuRe and
+HITHER\\
-nOt
+THITHER\\
-aT all
+J.B.
-cluttEred.
-fUll
+A Perfect word
-markS.
+picture
-Addendum: If you wish your poem to be printed, just send
+and
-it in to the Club Laureate. Conform to the rules
+not
- . though.
+at all
+cluttered.
+Full
+marks.
+Addendum: If you wish your poem to be printed, just send it in to the Club Laureate. Conform to the rules though.
 ===== The Annual General Meeting =====
 Barry Wallace
-The meeting commenced at about 2019 hours with 40 members present and the expiring President in the Chair. There were apologies from Hans Stichter, Gordon Redmond, Marion Ellis and others. The sole new member, Stephen Green, was welcomed in the traditional way with badge, constitution and hand claps. Minutes of the previous general meeting were read and received without comment. Correspondence in included the usual magazines and circulars, together with a letter from the Electricity
-Commission of New South Wales regarding the H.T. line easement across
+The meeting commenced at about 2019 hours with 40 members present and the expiring President in the Chair. There were apologies from Hans Stichter, Gordon Redmond, Marion Ellis and others. The sole new member, Stephen Green, was welcomed in the traditional way with badge, constitution and hand claps. Minutes of the previous general meeting were read and received without comment. Correspondence in included the usual magazines and circulars, together with a letter from the Electricity Commission of New South Wales regarding the H.T. line easement across Coolana, a letter from Mr. Mulock, the N.S.W. Minister for Planning and Environment acknowledging receipt of our letter about the Ettrema wilderness and promising an answer. Correspondence out included our letter to Mr. Mulock, a letter to the new member and a letter of thanks to the N.S.W. Police Commissioner.
-Coolana, a letter from Mr. Mulock, the N.S.W. Minister for Planning and Environment acknowledging receipt of our letter about the Ettrema wilderness and promising an answer. Correspondence out in luded our letter to Mr. Mulock, a letter to the new member and a letter of thanks to the N.S.W. Police Commissioner.
 Annual Reports were then taken as read and received by the meeting. The Treasurer then placed before the meeting a letter from the Auditor regarding a $1,000.00 investment for the Coolana account and requesting motions to the following effect:
-(1) githdraw deposit from the present investment.
+  - Withdraw deposit from the present investment.
-(2) Refund to Dot. Butler that portion of the money which is not Club property.
+  - Refund to Dot. Butler that portion of the money which is not Club property.
-(3) Establish a procedure whereby cheques against the Coolana account may be signed by the President and/or Dot Butler and the Secretary.
+  - Establish a procedure whereby cheques against the Coolana account may be signed by the President and/or Dot Butler and the Secretary.
-(4) Establish a procedure whereby transfer of funds to and from the Coolana account would be subject to the following limitations:
+  - Establish a procedure whereby transfer of funds to and from the Coolana account would be subject to the following limitations:
-(a) Coolana Committee to accept income and authorise recurrent expenditure up to $500.00.
-(b) General Committee to authorise acceptance of loans, capital expenditure and any expenditure of amounts exceeding $500.00..
+(a) Coolana Committee to accept income and authorise recurrent expenditure up to $500.00.\\
+(b) General Committee to authorise acceptance of loans, capital expenditure and any expenditure of amounts   exceeding $500.00.\\
 Motions were duly proposed, discussed and passed.
-A motion to suspend standing orders to permit annual elections was
-passed and the results have appeared in the March magazine. 'Subscription rates were set at: single member $10.501, married couple $12.50 and students $6.50. So make the Treasurer happy; pay now and create a rush.
+A motion to suspend standing orders to permit annual elections was passed and the results have appeared in the March magazine. Subscription rates were set at: single member $10.50, married couple $12.50 and students $6.50. So make the Treasurer happy; pay now and create a rush.
-Then came the Treasurer's monthly report to indicate a starting balance
-of $1,474.69, income of $63.15, expenditure of $209.02 and a closing balance of.
+Then came the Treasurer's monthly report to indicate a starting balance of $1,474.69, income of $63.15, expenditure of $209.02 and a closing balance of $1,382.18.
-$1,382.18.
-The Walks Report came and went among the various votes and I missed it all. Federation report brought news of a search and rescue alert during the month and the proposed focus of conservation effort on the Colo and South West Tasmania.
+The Walks Report came and went among the various votes and I missed it all.
-Page 14 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER APRIL, 1979 General Business there was none, but there was a warning that
-the opposition to roads in the proposed Ettrema wilderness area could
+Federation report brought news of a search and rescue alert during the month and the proposed focus of conservation effort on the Colo and South West Tasmania.
-be expensive in terms of legal costs.
+General Business there was none, but there was a warning that the opposition to roads in the proposed Ettrema wilderness area could be expensive in terms of legal costs.
 Then it was just a matter of the announcements and the meeting closed at about 2228 hours.
-===== "AND APART FROM THAT ..." =====
+===== "And apart from that..." =====
-Fazeley 'Read
+Fazeley Read
-"And apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?"
-the President Lincoln's wife was asked after the assassination. I suppose a similar question could be asked of me with regard to Pat's Barrington Tops walk one February weekend.
+"And apart from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?", the President Lincoln's wife was asked after the assassination. I suppose a similar question could be asked of me with regard to Pat's Barrington Tops walk one February weekend.
 There was a long, wet climb up the steep road from Lagoon Pinch late Friday night and that "why am I doing this?" feeling. The next day was most enjoyable for we rose above the mist and drizzle to the varied scenery of Edwards Plains. There was evidence of wild pigs in the area and one was sighted. Jumping the swamp stream provided considerable entertainments and the campfire in the evening was one I will remember for the discussions, yarns, laughter, and that feeling you have after a good day's walk.
-We set off early on Sunday morning for, as Pat had told us many times,
-it was going to be a long day. He was quite right. It was. We were approaching the Allyn River when a rock rolled behind me and broke my leg. A helicopter rescue in the early afternoon proved unsuccessful and I was carried out in a stretcher - an exhaustive business for those in the party,
+We set off early on Sunday morning for, as Pat had told us many times, it was going to be a long day. He was quite right. It was. We were approaching the Allyn River when a rock rolled behind me and broke my leg. A helicopter rescue in the early afternoon proved unsuccessful and I was carried out in a stretcher - an exhaustive business for those in the party, who eventually arrived back in Sydney at 7 a m. Monday, after what could only be described as "A Long Day's Journey into Night."
-who eventually arrived back in Sydney at 7 a m. Monday, after what could
-only be described as "A Long Day's Journey into Night."
+The following ten days I spent in Maitland Hospital. I was pleased to receive flowers and mail from Sydney, and also visitors - a long journey, particularly when the entertainment on arrival was not remarkable. My efforts to be transferred to a Sydney Hospital were met with frustration until I 'attacked' the Matron who happened to pass by. She listened sympathetically, then said "I know. I was a prisoner of the Japanese for four years. I know how it is." I didn't wish it to sound that bad.
-The following ten days I spent in Maitland Hospital. I was pleased
-to receive flowers and mail from Sydney, and also visitors - a long journey, particularly when the entertainment on arrival was not remarkable. My efforts to be transferred to a Sydney Hospital were T-t -7.7..th frustration until I 'attacked' the Matron who happened to pass by. She listened sym2athetically, then said "I know., I was a prisoner of the Japanese for four years. I know how it is". I didn't wish it to sound that bad.
+However, I was transferred, the bones re-set, and I awoke to a new ward. I did not have time to knit coat hanger covers for charity as did my neighbour, for I had many visitors and the days went quickly. I'm sure I was the only one in the hospital who had bananas, plums, apples, grapes, oranges and peaches in every drawer of the locker. First steps on crutches were not easy and I do believe they should be approached in similar manner to the Ten Commandments - no more than six to be attempted at a time.
-However, I was transferred, the bones re-set, and I awoke to a new ward.
-I did not have time to knit coat hanger covers for charity as did my neighbour, for I had many visitors and the days went quickly. I'm sure I was the only one in the hospital who had bananas, plums, apples, gralPz;. oranges and peaches
-in every drawer of the locker. First steps on crutches were not easy and I
-do believe they should be approached in similar manner to the Ten Commandments - no more than six to be attempted at a time.
 If I were to thank people for their assistance from the time of the accident, onward, I would not know where to begin and end. It is comforting to know that help is at hand when you need it.
-===== ROD PETER'S ACCIDENT =====
+===== Rod Peter's Accident=====
 Helen Gray
-On 26th March, many members heard over the radio of the accident in which *f Rod Peters was Injured. Here are some more details.
+On 26th March, many members heard over the radio of the accident in which Rod Peters was injured. Here are some more details.
-Rod's story began on mid-day on Sunday 25th March as a party of Canberra Bush Walkers were resting in Jones Creek (a tributary of Ettrem ) just below the top waterfall. Without any apparant reason, rocks fell from the cliff 30 metre's above and landed on some of the party. A girl was hit on the arm (the arm later proved to be broken) and Rod was hit, by a foot-ball-sized rock, on the pelvis. Rod found he could not even stand with his injury, let alone walk, so leaving two men behind as company, the remainder of the party set out to get help.
+Rod's story began on mid-day on Sunday 25th March as a party of Canberra Bush Walkers were resting in Jones Creek (a tributary of Ettrema) just below the top waterfall. Without any apparent reason, rocks fell from the cliff 30 metres above and landed on some of the party. A girl was hit on the arm (the arm later proved to be broken) and Rod was hit, by a foot-ball-sized rock, on the pelvis. Rod found he could not even stand with his injury, let alone walk, so leaving two men behind as company, the remainder of the party set out to get help.
-The party was unable to contact any help from Nerriga, so proceeded to Braidwood, where they rang Canberra's S & R contact, who in turn phoned A.C.T. Police Search and Rescue Squal who elected to call in a helicopter.
+The party was unable to contact any help from Nerriga, so proceeded to Braidwood, where they rang Canberra's S & R contact, who in turn phoned A.C.T. Police Search and Rescue Squad who elected to call in a helicopter.
-Back in Jones Creek, Rod and friends spent the night under an overhang. At first light a helicopter arrived overhead. With difficulty, Rod's two
-companions carried him over boulders for about 20 metres to a more exposed
+Back in Jones Creek, Rod and friends spent the night under an overhang. At first light a helicopter arrived overhead. With difficulty, Rod's two companions carried him over boulders for about 20 metres to a more exposed
-spot. The helicopter made an unsuccessful attempt to come up the creek to this spot, off-loaded three personel on a cliff above to reduce wrai ht, and tried again. Although it go no closer, it lowered a doctor and stretcher,
+spot. The helicopter made an unsuccessful attempt to come up the creek to this spot, off-loaded three personnel on a cliff above to reduce weight, and tried again. Although it got no closer, it lowered a doctor and stretcher,
 then moved to, and hovered above, a spot 50 metres above.
-The doctor gave Rod a pain-killing injection, some field-dressing, strapped him into a bane k stretcher and warned him he may spin a little. The lift began, and so did the spinning, half way up Rod had already lost consciousness. Because of the vortex effect in the box-canyon from the rotating helicopter blades, and the upwind in the canyon itself, he spun at an alarming speed. The helicopter crew were unable to grab the stretcher with Rod because of the spin, and had to lower it to the canyon floor again, deliberately banging it against some rocks on its descent in an effort to counteract the spin.
+The doctor gave Rod a pain-killing injection, some field-dressing, strapped him into a banana stretcher and warned him he may spin a little. The lift began, and so did the spinning, half way up Rod had already lost consciousness. Because of the vortex effect in the box-canyon from the rotating helicopter blades, and the upwind in the canyon itself, he spun at an alarming speed. The helicopter crew were unable to grab the stretcher with Rod because of the spin, and had to lower it to the canyon floor again, deliberately banging it against some rocks on its descent in an effort to counteract the spin.
 When Rod reached the canyon floor again, he was bleeding from the nose and ears from the spinning. Another crewman was lowered, and he and the others carried the unconscious Rod downstream to a spot where the helicopter could get a little lower. From here he was successfully, but still not without some spinning, lifted into the helicopter, and the dash to Canberra Hospital began.
 The centrifuge effect by spinning had forced the blood to Rod's head and feet, and away from the centre of his body, but as the doctor was unable to ask Rod his blood group, no transfusion could be given en-route.
-The girl with the broken arm, who had walked out was at Canberra
-Hospital having her arm set when the helicopter landed, She was amazed toto see her friend (whom she had left looking reasonably fit) now unconscious, purple-faced and oxygen-masked, being rushed past her to the intensive care unit. She was able to give the hospital some details about Rod, for his flame was not even known, while he was x-rayed all over). X-rays showed his hip bone had been chipped, but that he had no other major injuries from the falling rocks.
-Rod gained consciousness about mid-day Monday, to find himself, a medical curiosity. It was claimed no one has ever been spun at such high speed before (or ever survived it if she/he has!) The helicopter crew estimated that he was spinning at 5 revolutions a second, with his head and feet subjected to 60 gs (60 times the force of gravity). He has been visited by every type of doctor and specialist you can think of, photographed daily from every angle, and his case will be written up in at least one medical journal. When the hospital staff finally allowed Rod to look in a mirror, he saw that his face and neck were blight red. (They still are, and with the green of his irises his eyes are a technicolour wonder).
+The girl with the broken arm, who had walked out was at Canberra Hospital having her arm set when the helicopter landed, She was amazed to see her friend (whom she had left looking reasonably fit) now unconscious, purple-faced and oxygen-masked, being rushed past her to the intensive care unit. She was able to give the hospital some details about Rod, for his name was not even known, while he was x-rayed all over. X-rays showed his hip bone had been chipped, but that he had no other major injuries from the falling rocks.
+Rod gained consciousness about mid-day Monday, to find himself, a medical curiosity. It was claimed no one has ever been spun at such high speed before (or ever survived it if she/he has!) The helicopter crew estimated that he was spinning at 5 revolutions a second, with his head and feet subjected to 60 gs (60 times the force of gravity). He has been visited by every type of doctor and specialist you can think of, photographed daily from every angle, and his case will be written up in at least one medical journal. When the hospital staff finally allowed Rod to look in a mirror, he saw that his face and neck were bright red. (They still are, and with the green of his irises his eyes are a technicolour wonder).
 Rod is now out of hospital. His hearing has been damaged in the high frequency range, but as he calmly and philosophically remarked "I was going to buy myself more sensitive stereo equipment, but now I won't need to."
 In fact, Rod only has one complaint. When he arrived at hospital, his clothes were cut from his body to avoid moving him and causing further internal injuries. On being released, not only was he given his clothes,
-in pieces, in a plastic bag, but had to sign a receipt for them:
+in pieces, in a plastic bag, but had to sign a receipt for them.
-WANTED
+**WANTED:** Bushwalker to share a flat at Bondi Junction; fully furnished, own sunny room, harbour views, close to shops and transport and railway when it comes. ($35 per week).
-Bushwalker to share a flat at Bondi Junction; fully furnished, own sunny room,' harbour views close to shops and transport and railway when it comes. ($35 per week).
 Ring Marion Lloyd 389-4416 (home) after 6 p m. or 861004 (any time) when I'm out - which is nearly always - and leave message.
-STOP PRESS: The death occurred on Sunday 22nd April in the Grand Canyon of club member John Curedale aged 26. He slipped and fell about 10m while watching another party abseiling.
+**STOP PRESS:** The death occurred on Sunday 22nd April in the Grand Canyon of club member John Curedale aged 26. He slipped and fell about 10m while watching another party abseiling.