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 That afternoon we experienced the physical evidence of the assault when we loaded our bikes into the truck and saw the blood on the tail gate!
-===== Canton and Hot Springs =====
+==== Canton and Hot Springs ====
 As we approached Canton, we saw a most peculiar sign which said "Don't Drink And Drive", and featured two drunk Chinese on bicycles. We then realized how appropriate the sign was because there are no private cars in China, only taxi cabs and consular vehicles.
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 The tourist centre was also used for Government conferences as we found out when walking along one of the back streets. We were stopped by a Red Army soldier with a rifle held at the ready. He made it clear that we were to proceed no further. As we retraced our steps, a group of elderly Chinese clad in dark blue padded cotton jackets and trousers emerged from the buildings.
-That afternoon, we were joined by Charles Ng, the Managing Director of Cross Point Tours, who had flown in from Hong Kong to meet us. He was a small-boned, middle-aged man who was very affable, joining in all our fun. Charles had been born into one of the classical Southern Chinese families and at the age of five had actually witnessed executions of landlords by the new Communist Government. Although his mother and father had escaped death, their land was appropriated and the family fled to HOng Kong. At the age of 14. Charles had caught a cargo boat to Sydney, and after a few years graduated as a TV technician from NOrth Sydney Technical College.
+That afternoon, we were joined by Charles Ng, the Managing Director of Cross Point Tours, who had flown in from Hong Kong to meet us. He was a small-boned, middle-aged man who was very affable, joining in all our fun. Charles had been born into one of the classical Southern Chinese families and at the age of five had actually witnessed executions of landlords by the new Communist Government. Although his mother and father had escaped death, their land was appropriated and the family fled to Hong Kong. At the age of 14, Charles had caught a cargo boat to Sydney, and after a few years graduated as a TV technician from North Sydney Technical College.
-He had worked for WIN 5, Wollongong Television, for a number of
-years and had been active in the organisation of the China Day celebrations in the Haymarket, Sydney. Returning to Hong Kong, he bacamea producer of
+He had worked for WIN 5, Wollongong Television, for a number of years and had been active in the organisation of the China Day celebrations in the Haymarket, Sydney. Returning to Hong Kong, he became a producer of TV shows and made many contacts in Communist China. He now owns shares in a small electronics factory in the north of China.
-Page 18 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER March, 1985
-TV shows and made many contacts in Communist China. He now owns shares in a small electronics factory in the north of China.
 Our farewell feast consisted of special dishes prepared in one of Canton's famous restaurants, hosted by members of the Chinese Youth Federation and the Chinese Travel Bureau. One of the highlights of the evening was a peanut eating competition in which the diners transferred peanuts from a saucer to the mouth, with chopsticks. What a slippery game it turned out to be with our laughter penetrating all corners of the restaurant.
 Our hosts presented each of us with small soap-stone souvenirs:-
-An elephant - symbol of long life
-A tortoise - for good luck
+  * An elephant - symbol of long life
-A dove for peace
+  * A tortoise - for good luck
-The next morning, we boarded a luxury diesel train, en route to HOng Kong.
+  * A dove - for peace
-* * * * * * * *
-NEW MEMBERS.
+The next morning, we boarded a luxury diesel train, en route to Hong Kong.
-The following new members were admitted to the Club in February-arid March. Please add their names to your List Of Members.
+===== New Members =====
+The following new members were admitted to the Club in February and March. Please add their names to your List Of Members.
 CORNEY, Stan, 63 Turriell Point Road, Lilli Pilli, 2229 Phone 524-5580
 HORNE, Craig, 18 Verletta Ave, Castle Hill, 2154 634-4710
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 SHARP, Peter, 119 Prince Alfred Parade, Newport, 2106 918-2303
 STARMER, Lyn, 5 Essex Street, KIllara, 2071 499-2157
-THEATRE PARTY - "CATS" - at the Theatre Royal, Tuesday, 20 August. Price per ticket $32.60 (group concession - normally $35).
+===== Theatre Party =====
+"CATS" - at the Theatre Royal, Tuesday, 20 August. Price per ticket $32.60 (group concession - normally $35).
 Contact FAZELEY READ, 909-3671 as soon as possible.
-********
-LETTER TO THE EDITOR.
+===== Letter to the Editor =====
 Donalda and I have at last moved to the country after two years of telling everyone we would soon be on our way. I have bought into a firm of accountants in Bowral and currently we are living in a rented house at Mittagong. We would like to see our friends in S.B.W. any time they're down this way. phone numbers are (048) 61-1999 (B) and (048) 71-1697 (home) - at present. We are hoping to buy a few acres soon and build, so the home number may only be applicable for the next 8 or 9 months (or more?).
 Wishing all a very enjoyable 1985 with plenty of good walking.
-FRANK ROBERTS.
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+Frank Roberts
-SEARCH & RESCUE. The S. & R. section of the Fed. of Bushwalking Clubs will be holding its first practice for 1985 at Bungonia Caves Reserve on the weekend of 22/23 March. We are hoping for a large representation from Clubs.
+===== Search and Rescue =====
+The S. & R. section of the Fed. of Bushwalking Clubs will be holding its first practice for 1985 at Bungonia Caves Reserve on the weekend of 22/23 March. We are hoping for a large representation from Clubs.
 For access to the Caves Reserve, follow the S. & R. yellow signs from the turnoff just past Marulan on the east side of the Hume Highway.
 Activities will be divided into three areas:- (See page 20)
-March, 1985 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER Page 19
-CONSERVATION NEWS.- DAINTREE.
+===== Conservation News - Daintree =====
 (From The Sydney Morning Herald, February 2, 1985.)
-The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has performed an about- face and decided to embroil itself in the controversy over the road through the Daintree rainforest in far north Queensland.
+The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has performed an about-face and decided to embroil itself in the controversy over the road through the Daintree rainforest in far north Queensland.
 The authority will set up a series of sites along the Daintree coast to monitor siltation levels and their effects on what scientists are now describing as some of the rarest and most diverse of Australian coral reefs.
-Mr. Graeme Kelleher, the authority chairman, said yesterday:"There is clear evidence there is a fair amount of silt coming off the road and its tiue for us to find out if that is affecting the fringing reefs."
-The first significant scientific examination of the Daintree fringing reefs was conducted just over two weeks ago by Dr. JOhn Veron, principal research scientist at the Australian INstitute of Marine Science. In one
+Mr. Graeme Kelleher, the authority chairman, said yesterday:"There is clear evidence there is a fair amount of silt coming off the road and it's time for us to find out if that is affecting the fringing reefs."
-two-hour scuba dive he counted 147 different species of coral from 55 genera (there are about 80 genera of coral on the Great Barrier Reef), making it one of the most diverse reefs he had seen.
-Dr. Veron, acknowledged as a leading authority on the corals of the Pacific region, said: "There is not another fringing reef like that anywhere around Australia. It is very beautiful, very diverse." But he
+The first significant scientific examination of the Daintree fringing reefs was conducted just over two weeks ago by Dr. John Veron, principal research scientist at the Australian Institute of Marine Science. In one two-hour scuba dive he counted 147 different species of coral from 55 genera (there are about 80 genera of coral on the Great Barrier Reef), making it one of the most diverse reefs he had seen.
-expressed "serious concern" about survival prospects for significant sections of coral.
+Dr. Veron, acknowledged as a leading authority on the corals of the Pacific region, said: "There is not another fringing reef like that anywhere around Australia. It is very beautiful, very diverse." But he expressed "serious concern" about survival prospects for significant sections of coral.
 Since February 1984 Federal Government representations to the Queensland Government and local government failed to prevent a new round of bulldozing on the road last August and the first couple of months of the northern wet season have produced photographic and eye-witness evidence of heavy silt run-off.
-ON January 15 this year Dr. Veron dived on a fringing reef about 50-100 metres off Donovan's Range, the first of two steep climbs heading north from Cape Tribulation where road-works have gouged out a large side-cut. Dr. Veron said that soon after it began raining visibility in the water dropped to zero. "I could not see my hand in front of my face.
+On January 15 this year Dr. Veron dived on a fringing reef about 50-100 metres off Donovan's Range, the first of two steep climbs heading north from Cape Tribulation where road-works have gouged out a large side-cut. Dr. Veron said that soon after it began raining visibility in the water dropped to zero. "I could not see my hand in front of my face. I have not seen any reef survive under those conditions (for prolonged periods).
-I have not seen any reef survive under those conditions (for prolonged periods).
 "A plume of orange mud was pouring off that range as a result of those earthworks."
-Asked if the reef could survive the muddy deluge, Dr. Veron replied: "I think it could survive brief episodes but if it becomes a chronic problem over a full wet season, I would say those corals in the plumes of those headlands and creeks have had it. I had wondered before whether
-fears about siltation from the road were exaggerated, but it would be hard for me to exaggerate what I :saw that day."
+Asked if the reef could survive the muddy deluge, Dr. Veron replied: "I think it could survive brief episodes but if it becomes a chronic problem over a full wet season, I would say those corals in the plumes of those headlands and creeks have had it. I had wondered before whether fears about siltation from the road were exaggerated, but it would be hard for me to exaggerate what I saw that day."
-He was diving in about five metres of water over what he described as
-a fairly broad, continuous reef with two other scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science and James Cook University in Townsville.
+He was diving in about five metres of water over what he described as a fairly broad, continuous reef with two other scientists from the Australian Institute of Marine Science and James Cook University in Townsville.
 Mr. Kelleher confirmed that it was the only location in Australia where well-developed tropical rainforest abutted such a rich series of fringing reefs. The reefs are on the World Heritage list as part of the Great Barrier Reef. Dr. Veron said there are probably only two other places in the world where reef and rainforest meet like this - one off western Thailand and the other along the north coast of Papua New Guinea.
-"It is strange, extremely uneypected, to have these two complex
-ecosystems existing side by side," Dr. Veron said. This is because rain-
+"It is strange, extremely unexpected, to have these two complex ecosystems existing side by side," Dr. Veron said. This is because rain-forests need plenty of fresh water. Corals die if they get too much fresh water.
-forests need plenty of fresh water. Corals die if they get too much fresh
-water.
+===== Obituary - Hon. Paul Landa, QC, MP =====
-Page 20 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER March, 1985
-OBITUARY - HON. PAUL LANDA, Q. C., M. P.
+The Sydney Bush Wslkers has good reason to regret the death of the Han. Paul Landa in late November, 1984. He was a strong supporter of conservation.
-The Sydney Bush Wslkers has good reason to regret the death of the Han. Paul Landa in late NOvember, 1984. He was a strong supporter of conservation.
-He was responsible for Australia's first Heritage Act and, during
+He was responsible for Australia's first Heritage Act and, during his term as Minister for the Environment in New South Wales, the total area of national parks was doubled and the planning laws were completely updated.
-his term as Minister for the Environment in New South Wales, the total area of national parks was doubled and the planning laws were completely updated.
 He presided over the dedication of the State's second largest National Park, Wollemi.
 Of his record of achievements, it was this that gave him most pride.
-* * * * * * *.* * *
-REPORT ON MARCH COMMITTER MEETING.
+===== Report on March Committee Meeting =====
-The S.B.W. will support the proposal to the Bicentennial Committee for the SYDNEY TO HUNTER VALLEY track.
-There will be a variation of procedure in admitting prospective
+The S.B.W. will support the proposal to the Bicentennial Committee for the **Sydney to Hunter Valley** track.
-members in that they will be required to come before the Committee as a group, to be followed by reports from the proposers for membership.
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+There will be a variation of procedure in admitting prospective members in that they will be required to come before the Committee as a group, to be followed by reports from the proposers for membership.
-ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTIONS 1985.
+===== Annual Subscriptions 1985 =====
 At the Annual General Meeting held on 13th March it was resolved that "The category of Married Couple Membership Subscription be replaced by a Household Membership Subscription".
-Arising from this decision it was also resolved "That members availing
-themselves of the new category of Household Membership subscription receive only one copy of the Club Magazine and other Club publications".
+Arising from this decision it was also resolved "That members availing themselves of the new category of Household Membership subscription receive only one copy of the Club Magazine and other Club publications".
 It was suggested that members of a household desiring an additional Walks Programme would be able to buy one at a price decided by Committee.
 Annual subscriptions were fixed at:-
-Single member
+|Single member|$11|
-Household - $11 plus $5 for each extra  $11
+|Household - $11 plus $5 for each extra person in household| |
-person in household $16 (for 2 people)
+| |$16 (for 2 people)|
- $21 ( " 3 " )
+| |$21 ( " 3 " )|
- $26 ( " 4 " )
+| |$26 ( " 4 " )|
-Full-time student (unless included in $ 9
+|Full-time student (unless included in household subscription)|$9|
-household subscription)
+|Entrance Fee|$3|
-Entrance Fee $ 3
 Non-active member subscription and prospective member subscription will be decided by Committee and advised in the April magazine.
-*********** SEARCH & RESCUE (continued from page 18)
-A. Navigation, long hard walking, NIGHT navigation. Ropes needed. Start 10 pm Friday (from S.& R.trailer), finish Sunday, 24th.
+===== Search and Rescue (continued from page 18) =====
-B. Two days walking (NO night walking), camp out Sat. night. Ropes needed. Start 7 am Saturday.
-C. Two day walks, camp at trailer, no ropes. Basic navigation. Start 7 am.
+A. Navigation, long hard walking, NIGHT navigation. Ropes needed. Start 10 pm Friday (from S.& R.trailer), finish Sunday, 24th.\\
+B. Two days walking (NO night walking), camp out Sat. night. Ropes needed. Start 7 am Saturday.\\
+C. Two day walks, camp at trailer, no ropes. Basic navigation. Start 7 am.\\