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A Monthly Bulletin devoted to matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, 5 Hamilton Street, Sydney. | A Monthly Bulletin devoted to matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, 5 Hamilton Street, Sydney. | ||
- | No 40 April, 1938. | + | |No 40| |
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===== News From Here There And Everywhere. ===== | ===== News From Here There And Everywhere. ===== | ||
- | "__Wayfaring__" | + | ==== "Wayfaring" |
The journal of the Melbourne Women' | The journal of the Melbourne Women' | ||
- | __Another | + | ==== Another |
The saddest thing in the same publication is the announcement of another climbing fatality. Olive Sandall slipped as she was climbing in the Cathedral Range and was killed. The scene of the tragedy is a stretch of little pointed peaks much beloved by rock-climbers and not very far from Melbourne. No one would expect these pleasant little rocky summits to be the cause of a serious accident. We extend our sincere sympathy to our sister club. | The saddest thing in the same publication is the announcement of another climbing fatality. Olive Sandall slipped as she was climbing in the Cathedral Range and was killed. The scene of the tragedy is a stretch of little pointed peaks much beloved by rock-climbers and not very far from Melbourne. No one would expect these pleasant little rocky summits to be the cause of a serious accident. We extend our sincere sympathy to our sister club. | ||
- | __Ring | + | ==== Ring of Parks to Commemorate the Sesqui-Centenary ==== |
In the latest issue of "View Points" | In the latest issue of "View Points" | ||
- | __Cost | + | ==== Cost of Week-end |
Fares about 2/6 would probably be about our average. In America they appear to get off less lightly. The scheduled fares for the Mountain Club of Maryland are seldom less than a dollar, about 5/-, and often a very great deal more. It is when we read figures like these that we realise how fortunate we are in havirg cheap weekend fares and attractive places not far distant. However, Maryland has the advantage of maps and guide books in which "every mile of the walk is marked" | Fares about 2/6 would probably be about our average. In America they appear to get off less lightly. The scheduled fares for the Mountain Club of Maryland are seldom less than a dollar, about 5/-, and often a very great deal more. It is when we read figures like these that we realise how fortunate we are in havirg cheap weekend fares and attractive places not far distant. However, Maryland has the advantage of maps and guide books in which "every mile of the walk is marked" | ||
- | __An Exchange | + | ==== An Exchange |
This is one of the officers of the same club, an officer whose job it is to keep up an active correspondence with other clubs. If the S.B.W' | This is one of the officers of the same club, an officer whose job it is to keep up an active correspondence with other clubs. If the S.B.W' | ||
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(To Be Continued In Our Next) | (To Be Continued In Our Next) | ||
- | FEDERATION NEWS. Shacks at Garawarra | + | ===== Federation News ===== |
- | The Federation is not letting this matter drop. Private shacks in a pub140 | + | ==== Shacks at Garawarra ==== |
- | park are outrageous, and their owners cannot plead unemployment now. The Federatioa | + | The Federation is not letting this matter drop. Private shacks in a public |
- | Mr, Turner' | + | ==== Mr. Turner' |
- | After many years of useful work Jo Turner has seen fit to resign from his | + | After many years of useful work Jo Turner has seen fit to resign from his positions of representative of the Parks and Playgrounds Movement on the Federation Council and Trustee of Garawarra. Charlie Roberts (C.M.W.) succeeds to the former position and Tom Herbert to the latter. |
- | positions of representative of the Parks and Playgrounds Movement on the Federation | + | ==== Topographical Work ==== |
- | Council and. Trustee | + | The hard-working Ninian Melville produced a map of a hiker' |
- | Topographical Work | ||
- | The hard-working Ninian Melville produced a map of a hiker' | + | ==== The Bushwalker ==== |
- | be further news about these next month* | + | The publication committee budgeted for the sale of 500 copies. It still requires a further hundred to be sold. Have __you__ sent a copy to __all__ your friends abroad? |
- | The publication committee budgeted for the sale of 500 copies. It still requires a further hundred to be sold. Have you sent a copy to all your friends abroad? | + | ==== The Co-operative Society ==== |
- | The Co-operative Society | + | The Subcommittee to investigate the possibilities of this is getting down to work and now proposes to circulate clubs as to possible support. It was authorized to spend up to £2 (( two pounds )) on this. |
- | The Subcommittee to investigate the possibilities of this is getting down to work and now proposes to circulate clubs as to possible support. It was authorized to spend up to 2 on this. &mac ========== | ||
- | TBE STORY OF THE FRIEZE. (Continued from last month) | + | ===== The Story Of The Frieze ===== |
- | Nevertheless his desire was not quenched, neither were his longings stilled, so | + | (Continued from last month) |
- | he gat him a little bag, wherewith to carry food, and journeyed into the bush on the edge of the city. | + | Nevertheless his desire was not quenched, neither were his longings stilled, so he gat (( [sic] )) him a little bag, wherewith to carry food, and journeyed into the bush on the edge of the city. |
- | And he took with him a book wherein was written the way he should go and he went warily lest perchance he should lose the way and become entangled mid briar and thrn, | + | And he took with him a book wherein was written the way he should go and he went warily lest perchance he should lose the way and become entangled mid briar and thorn, or rend his apparel on prickly bush. Notwithstanding these things, however, he soon grew in wisdom of the bush and he ventured on longer and more arduous trips into the wilderness, and found his by by using a chart and the magic needle, like unto that which mariners use. |
- | or rend his apparel on prickly bush. Notwithstanding these things, however, he soon | + | And one day as he walked thus alone, he met a band of travellers like unto himself and they greeted him with friendly words. Then did he turn himself about and accompany them to the place of their encampment and he cooked food on their fire and pitched his tent with their tents. |
- | grew in wisdom | + | (The Story of the Frieze will be concluded in next month' |
- | wilderness, and found his my by using a chart and the magic needle, like unto that which mariners use. | + | |__' |
- | And one day as he walked thus alone, he met a band of travellers like unto | + | ===== Let Us All Play Injuns! ===== |
- | himself and they greeted him with friendly words. Then did he turn himself about and accompany them to the place of their encampment and he cooked food on their fire | + | By Dorothy Lawry. |
- | and pitched his tent with their tents. | + | A new member wrote:- |
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- | (The Story of the Frieze will be concluded in next monthIs Bulletin). | + | |
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- | PALLIN, | + | |
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- | 'Phone B.3101. GOOD CAMP GEAR FOR NAIKERS, | + | |
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- | 327 GEORGE ST., SYDNEY. | + | |
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- | 46, | + | |
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- | LET US ALL PLAY INJUNS1 | + | |
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- | By Dorothy Lawry. | + | |
"Dear Miss Dix, | "Dear Miss Dix, | ||
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I am not a pole-cutter, | I am not a pole-cutter, | ||
- | Mhat can I do to improve my bushcraft, and become recognised as a leader and a bush lover? | + | What can I do to improve my bushcraft, and become recognised as a leader and a bush lover? |
- A. Walker." | - A. Walker." | ||
- | "Ans. To achieve your ambition you must develop your powers of observation. Train your mind to notice, record, and correlate the information it receives from your eyes, nose, and ears. Watch your step, and always be asking yourself, and others, "What? Why? Haw?" | + | __"Ans__. To achieve your ambition you must develop your powers of observation. Train your mind to notice, record, and correlate the information it receives from your eyes, nose, and ears. Watch your step, and always be asking yourself, and others, "What? Why? How?" |
- Dorothy Dix." | - Dorothy Dix." | ||
- | We rather suspect | + | We rather suspect |
Some wish to be as tough as the toughest, so they join -parties whose members are a bit stronger, and walk a bit faster than they themselves. Then they have to barge along with their eyes on the ground all the time lest they stub a toe, or stumble. They certainly toughen themselves, and develop wonderful appetites, but they don't see a thing of the country through which they are walking, or of the plants and animals, birds and insects that live there. | Some wish to be as tough as the toughest, so they join -parties whose members are a bit stronger, and walk a bit faster than they themselves. Then they have to barge along with their eyes on the ground all the time lest they stub a toe, or stumble. They certainly toughen themselves, and develop wonderful appetites, but they don't see a thing of the country through which they are walking, or of the plants and animals, birds and insects that live there. | ||
- | For a really enjoyable trip, most of us go out with parties of about our own standard (with, for preference, one or two people in the party who are slightly slower than we are). Then we have time to look at things as we walk, glancing | + | For a really enjoyable trip, most of us go out with parties of about our own standard (with, for preference, one or two people in the party who are slightly slower than we are). Then we have time to look at things as we walk, glancing |
- | Yes, certainly, the first point in bushcraft is to take time to see things. And the second is to learn to know them by name. As you go, a question or so - - *What's that bird?", | + | Yes, certainly, the first point in bushcraft is to take time to see things. And the second is to learn to know them by name. As you go, a question or so - - "What's that bird?", |
- | Another | + | Another |
- | Does this all sound rather studious* and " | + | Does this all sound rather studious, and " |
- | faot, it is next door to childish. Do you remember how you used to admire the "Red Injuns"? | + | Let us all "play Injuns" |
- | Let us all "play Injuns" | + | Let us, rather, remember our early loves, the " |
- | love to see the bush in its primitive beauty. We want to see it like that this xvol:- end, next month, next year* and through many happy years to come, If, in our t1;41. walking, we resemble a herd of elephants, how much bush will there be left for us to enjoy next year? | + | Do let us all "play Injuns" |
- | Let us, rather, remember our early laves, the " | + | ===== Bush Walker Ballads ===== |
- | Do let us all "play Injuns": | + | ==== 1. Young Smithers ==== |
- | psm.,....11 | + | By K.M. |
- | BUSH WALTER BALLS | + | Young Smithers was a weedy youth who pushed a clerkly pen.\\ |
+ | They said: "Why don't you come and tramp the Bush, where Men are Men?\\ | ||
+ | Forget your books, forget accounts, forget your twos and fours,\\ | ||
+ | And come and see the wonders of Australia' | ||
- | .1.1 A. Rea - | + | So Smithers, not without a qualm, set off one Sabbath morn,\\ |
+ | And very soon was wishing that he never had been born.\\ | ||
+ | They walked him miles without a break; they said: "Come on, you runt!" | ||
+ | Young Smithers gulped and watched the legs of someone on in front. | ||
- | YOUNG SWITBERS. | + | They crawled through prickly underbrush, they climbed cliff-faces sheer,\\ |
- | + | They leapt across great chasms with the ease of mountain deer;\\ | |
- | By LIE. | + | They cried: "Now there' |
- | + | Be only saw the hairy legs of someone on in front. | |
- | Young Smithers was a weedy youth who pushed a clerkly pen. | + | |
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- | They said: "Why don't you come mid tramp the Bush, where Men are Men? Forget your books, forget accounts, forget your twos and fours, | + | |
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- | And come and see the wonders of Australia' | + | |
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- | So Smithers, not without a qualm, set off one Sabbath morn, ,And very soon was wishing that he never had been born. | + | |
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- | They walked him miles without a break; they said: "Come on, you runtl" Young Smithers gulped and watched the legs of someone on in. front. | + | |
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- | They crawled through prickly underbrush, they climbed cliff...faces sheer, They leapt across great chasms with the ease of mountain deer; They cried: "Now there' | + | |
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- | Downhill they went, uphill they went, rivers they forded too, | + | |
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- | And haw poor Smithers lasted out that day he never knew. Engraved upon his memory throughout that dreadful stunt | + | |
+ | Downhill they went, uphill they went, rivers they forded too, | ||
+ | And how poor Smithers lasted out that day he never knew.\\ | ||
+ | Engraved upon his memory throughout that dreadful stunt\\ | ||
Two things alone remained: the legs of someone on in front. | Two things alone remained: the legs of someone on in front. | ||
- | And now alas, his vacant desk proclaims his tragic fate, "Then did he meet his death?" | + | And now alas, his vacant desk proclaims his tragic fate.\\ |
- | + | "Then did he meet his death?" | |
- | Heavy Eaters. | + | Engulfs his mind: he cannot see whole figures as of yore,\\ |
- | + | But only legs, eternally, legs, walking on before. | |
- | "I had a wonderful day, grandmtTIME--. over the hills with a party of trampers, and oh* you should have seen the Devills Gorge*" | + | |
- | "Hush, my child, that is not the way to speak of your companions. I'm sure they | + | ==== Heavy Eaters. ==== |
- | had only healthy appetites." | + | "I had a wonderful day, grandma. |
+ | "Hush, my child, that is not the way to speak of your companions. I'm sure they had only healthy appetites." | ||
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