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 The Club started the New Year badly by Hilma Galliott turning up on the official walk in a pale green silk tennis suit, or play-suit, we think they call it. As luck would have it the party bumped into the official walk of the H.H. Club, the one club above all others requiring the example of proper bushwalking efficiency. Nor was
-the worst. Flo Allsworth, the leader of the $.B.W., the leader, mind you, left h, rucksack behind and carried instead one of those handbags ladies use for holding baby's nappies. It is time something was done. The best thing would be an amendment of the constitution expelling all members who wear pale green silk play-suits or carry nappie-bags - anyhow if they meet. the H.H. Club or any other of the "lesser
+the worst. Flo Allsworth, the leader of the S.B.W., the leader, mind you, left her rucksack behind and carried instead one of those handbags ladies use for holding baby's nappies. It is time something was done. The best thing would be an amendment of the constitution expelling all members who wear pale green silk play-suits or carry nappie-bags - anyhow if they meet the H.H. Club or any other of the "lesser breeds without the law."
-breeds without the law."
-Frances Ramsay and Vera Phillips arrived safely by the Aorangi from Canada. All except new members T,',"13 recall that Frances loft us to take a teaching exchange in Scotland, and that 7- , aj a 2tC,) 7 E ,-.rezsmal:ing-business to go to the
+Frances Ramsay and Vera Phillips arrived safely by the Aorangi from Canada. All except new members wil recall that Frances left us to take a teaching exchange in Scotland, and that Vera gave up flourishing dressmaking-business to go to the same place. When in London latter reply to an advertisement for an "experience dressmaker", got the job, and found herself making the Coronation robes. So now she will doubtless advertise as "formerly dressmaker to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth."
-fleme, place. 7hen in . e ,171c a,:.iertiseLlent for an "experiencl
-dressmaker", got the job, and found hers.-Li m,--Lhg the Coronation robes. So now she will doubtless advertise as "formerly dre:=;clmaker to her Majesty Queen Elizabeth."
+Three other old friends who dropped in recently were Buster Purnell on holiday from Melbourne, Morris Stephenson from the country, and Norrie Macdonald from some god-forsaken place where it is 20 miles to the nearest tree - probably it was to provide shade that he grew a moustache!
-Three other old friends who dropne in reently were Duster Purnell on holnayf
-from Melbourne, Morris Stephenson from the country, and Norrie Macdonald from some god-forsaken place where it is 20 miles to the nearest tree - probably it was to provide shade that he grew a moustache;
+Gwen Lawrie has left Sydney to take up work in the office of the "California" at Katoomba. It will be a wonderful opportunity for her to teach hikers and tourists to "burn and bury all their rubbish and their tins and hide their bottles as they would their sins!"
-Gwen Lawrie has left Sydney to take up work in the office of the "California"
-at Katoomba. It will be a wonderful opportunity for her to teach hikers andI touriss to "burn and bury all their rubbish and theii4 tins and hide their bottles as they
+Rumour has it that Norm Colton is engaged to someone who is neither a bush- walker nor a blonde!
-mould their sins3"
-;-
+We congratulate the flourishing firm of F.A. Pallin Proprietary Limited, the leading Australasian manufacturers of camp gear for walkers, on the holding of a staff picnic to mark the centenary (or was it the sesqui - or the deci-centenary?) of the firm's existence. May it hike ever onward towards greater success and prosperity!
-Rumour has it that Norm Colton is engaged to gomeone who is niether a bush- walker nor a blonde!
-We congratulate the flourishing firm of P.A. Pallin Proprietary Limited, the
+The third baby boy this summer is the son of Bill and Pearl Chambers. He, baby Duncan, and baby Reilly will form perhaps a Triumvirate for the Club a quarter of a century hence.
-leading Australasian manufacturers of carp gear for walkers, on the holding of a staff
-picnic-to mark the centenary (or was it the sesqui - or the deci-centenary?) of the
-firm's existence. May it hike ever onward towards greater success and prosperity!
-The third baby boy this summer is the son of Bill and Pearl Chambers. He, baby
-Duncan, and baby Reilly wal form perhaps a Triumvirate for the Club a quarter of a
-;T. century hence.
-.re
 If there is and gossip that has failed to illuminate the camp-fire circle it is because the better part of "Firelight" is shining on Barrington Tops!
-.
 ===== News from Here There and Everywhere. =====
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 The following paragraph culled from an article by a New Zealand tramper in London is of very considerable interest:-
-"Hiking (the word "tramping" is even more taboo here than in Australia), is quite a popular pastime in England, but the irritating factor to a colonial is that you cant t go where you please, but have to follow the lanes and certain pathways, and all the time seem to be crossing stiles. Nevertheless walking in England has a charm of its own by the quaint old villages to be found almost everywhere. It is not unusual to see men and women in shorts with rucksacks on their backs walking along Oxford Street London at any time of the day. Can you imagine that happening in Princes Street Dunedin?" or down Pitt Street Sydney? (Outdoors the official organ of the Otago Tramping Club, N.Z. Dec. 1937 Vol. 4. No, 2),
+"Hiking (the word "tramping" is even more taboo here than in Australia), is quite a popular pastime in England, but the irritating factor to a colonial is that you can't go where you please, but have to follow the lanes and certain pathways, and all the time seem to be crossing stiles. Nevertheless walking in England has a charm of its own by the quaint old villages to be found almost everywhere. It is not unusual to see men and women in shorts with rucksacks on their backs walking along Oxford Street London at any time of the day. Can you imagine that happening in Princes Street Dunedin?" or down Pitt Street Sydney? (Outdoors the official organ of the Otago Tramping Club, N.Z. Dec. 1937 Vol. 4. No, 2),
 ==== Melbourne Men Walkers 43 Years Old and Still Young. ====
-The annual report of the Molbounlo Walking and Touring Club helps to remove the bad
+The annual report of the Melbourne Walking and Touring Club helps to remove the bad taste left by that shocking motoring article in "The Melbourne Walker". The club itself appears to be very active judging by the number of walks and the numbers that patronize them. On re-union walks they seem to average about 40 and on Ladies' Day Walks a total of about 90. The club now numbers 171, but is calling out for increased membership. The Canadian Alpine Club is doing the same thing. On the other hand the Sydney Bush Walkers complain that their membership grows too rapidly. Apparently clubs always covet what they have not. It would be an interesting subject for an inter-club debate, the question of whether a large or small membership is more desirable.
-taste left by that shocking motoring article in "The Melbourne Walker". The club itself appears to be very active judging by the number of walks and the numbers that patronize
-them. On re-union walks they seem to average about 40 and on Ladiest Day Walks a total of about 90. The club now numbers 171, but is calling out for increased membership. The Canadian Alpine Club is doing the same thing. On the other hand the Sydney Bush-
-Walkers complain that their membership grows too rapidly. Apparently clubs always covet what they have not. It would be an interesting subject for an inter-club debate, the question of whether a large or small membership is more desirable.
 (Forty-third Annual Report of the Melbourne Walking and Touring Club).
 ==== How Hikers Bushwalk in Potomac. ====
-Perhaps we do not often stop to think how differently the hiking or bushwalking or
+Perhaps we do not often stop to think how differently the hiking or bushwalking or tramping (or whatever you will) movement has developed in Australia as compared with other lands. The objects of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club show that difference more clearly than do many articles:
-tramping (or whatever you will) movement has developed in Australia as compared with other lands. The objects of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club show that difference
-more clearly than do many articles:-
+"To open, develop, extend and maintain trails for walkers, mountain-climbers and nature-students in wooded and mountain regions - - and more particularly the Appalachian Trail - to construct and maintain camp sites, open shelters and permanent camps - - to collect data of interest to users of the trail concerning history, geology-, botany, forestry and wild life - - to prepare maps etc." - the rest of the objects are similar to our own. Bushwalkers often feel very superior because they need no tracks or shelters, but how many would be willing to give up one Sunday a month for a "work trip?" And do we take the trouble to acquaint ourselves with the botany, geology and forestry of the bush we pass through? This American Club has regular "nature trips" which aim at walking a mere five or six miles so that the members may really learn about things on the way. As usual each club may learn from every other. Probably we should find their walks ridiculously tame, but they could certainly run rings round us in other respects. Bulletin Potomac Appalachian Trail Club - October 1937.
-"To open, develop, extend and maintain trails for walkers, mountain-climbers and nature-
-students in wooded and mountain regions - - and more particularly the Appalachian Trail - to construct and maintain camp sites, open shelters and permanent camps - - to collect data of interest to users of the trail concerning history, geology-, botany, forestry and mild life - - to prepare maps etc." - the rest of the objects are similar
-to our own. Bushwalkers often feel very superior because they need no tracks or shelters,
-but how many would be willing to give up one Sunday a month for a "work trip?" And do we take the trouble to acquaint ourselves with the botany, geology and forestry of the
-bush we pass through? This American Club has regular "nature triRs" which aim at
-walking a mere five or six miles so that the members may really learn about things on
-the way. As usual each club may learn from every other. Probably we should find their
-walks ridiculously tame, but they could certainly run rings round us in other respects. Bulletin Potomac Appalachian Trail Club - October 1937.
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