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The extraordinary number of rock paintings and carvings in New South Wales, especially in the Sydney district, is of great interest to scientists, bush walkers, and the public, to the latter if only as a medium for vandalism and the writing of engraving of their names and date of visit. | The extraordinary number of rock paintings and carvings in New South Wales, especially in the Sydney district, is of great interest to scientists, bush walkers, and the public, to the latter if only as a medium for vandalism and the writing of engraving of their names and date of visit. | ||
- | These rock drawings are records of incidents in hunting, of the natural species which figured as totems of the various clans constituting a trie, and of spiritual culture-heroes who created the people and gave to them their customs, weapons and other objects employed; evolved their kinship and social organisation, | + | These rock drawings are records of incidents in hunting, of the natural species which figured as totems of the various clans constituting a tribe, and of spiritual culture-heroes who created the people and gave to them their customs, weapons and other objects employed; evolved their kinship and social organisation, |
- | Not much actual research has been carried out in this important field of local anthropology and before study of them can be of a comprehensive nature it is essential that the location of all Carvings and paintings be accurately plotted on maps; 8 scheme is now in hand whereby it is hoped that this work will be carried out. | + | Not much actual research has been carried out in this important field of local anthropology and before study of them can be of a comprehensive nature it is essential that the location of all Carvings and paintings be accurately plotted on maps; A scheme is now in hand whereby it is hoped that this work will be carried out. |
- | A great deal of mutilation and destruction of carvings and paintings has taken place. I know of groups from which figures have been cut out of the rock surface and taken away. The spread of settlement on the outskirts of the city is one of the most serious factors militating against their preservation; | + | A great deal of mutilation and destruction of carvings and paintings has taken place. I know of groups from which figures have been cut out of the rock surface and taken away. The spread of settlement on the outskirts of the city is one of the most serious factors militating against their preservation; |
All caves containing paintings should have a steel wire grille erected to close the entrance to the cave, but still permitting visitors to see the paintings. It is the aim of the Australian Museum to have all cave paintings in New South Wales protected in this manner. | All caves containing paintings should have a steel wire grille erected to close the entrance to the cave, but still permitting visitors to see the paintings. It is the aim of the Australian Museum to have all cave paintings in New South Wales protected in this manner. | ||
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=====Hymn of hate===== | =====Hymn of hate===== | ||
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- | By Graco Edg6combc,. | + | By Grace Edgecombe |
- | Oh, how I hate the race of packs; I'd like to hit mine with an a;i:e. I'd like to bust it right in two, | + | |
- | Or beet it till it's black and blue! I'd like to fling it in the sea, Or jump upon it, savagely | + | Oh, how I hate the race of packs;\\ |
- | How dare it sit and mock at me, Knowing that it must carried be? | + | I'd like to hit mine with an axe.\\ |
- | How dare it grin, with beastly bulge, And naught but ribald mirth divulge? And does it feed upon the air, That it grows daily heavier? Or slyly suck my puuy | + | I'd like to bust it right in two,\\ |
- | And take my breadth, | + | Or beet it till it's black and blue! |
- | Just watch it try tu break my neck, Using me as a lalidirg-do c:,g | + | \\I'd like to fling it in the sea, |
- | Pompous pincushion | + | \\Or jump upon it, savagely!\\ |
- | :17:ir, | + | How dare it sit and mock at me,\\ |
- | -----:i< t> --, A-, in 1 | + | Knowing that it must carried be?\\ |
- | I' 4' ---, | + | How dare it grin, with beastly bulge,\\ |
- | l\ \ | + | And naught but ribald mirth divulge?\\ |
- | I | + | And does it feed upon the air,\\ |
- | , ' / | + | That it grows daily heavier?\\ |
- | , | + | Or slyly suck my puny strength\\ |
- | -----Z_-: | + | And take my breadth, |
- | i | + | Just watch it try to break my neck,\\ |
- | A- | + | Using me as a landing-deck\\ |
- | _-- | + | Pompous pincushion! Loathsome |
- | ...._, | + | I vow you ne' |
- | J., /0/ ,e | + | |
- | A POINT TO REMEEBER | + | **A POINT TO REMEMBER** |
- | If you carry an iron-frame rucksack, remember to take it off before trying | + | If you carry an iron-frame rucksack, remember to take it off before trying to get an accurate reading with a prismatic compass. Experiments have shown that an iron frame on your back would alter the compass reading by as much as three degrees. |
- | to get an accurate reading with a prismatic compass. Experiments have shown that an iron frame on your back would alter the compass-reading by as much as three | + | |
- | degrees. | + | For the ordinary, rough and ready compass reading needed to follow a route, you can forget about the pull on your compass caused by your pack |
- | For the ordinary, rough and ready compass-reading needed to follow a route, you can forget about the pull on your compass caused by your pack | + | |
- | - 10- | + | =====From here there and everywhere===== |
- | FROM HERT,!_,_ THEL.F.E A-NJ), EVERYIkHER.E._ | + | |
- | In a booklet called | + | In a booklet called " |
- | in North-eastern States" | + | |
- | "We are a simple organization. Simple Simon is our patron saint. We are simply a hiking club taking simple little walks, and have thirty committees to direct this activity." | + | "We are a simple organization. Simple Simon is our patron saint. We are simply a hiking club taking simple little walks, |
- | ....And we thought we were quite a club!. The S.B.W. would hardly be mentioned amongst the "also rans"9 even if the items we have pushed off onto the Federation were included. | + | |
- | By the way, the Federation' | + | And we thought we were quite a club!. The S.B.W. would hardly be mentioned amongst the "also rans", even if the items we have pushed off onto the Federation were included. |
- | to be a searcher, there will be plenty of SJOpe for you. If you don't come on the stunt, you MAY have to turn out during the follo)Ang | + | |
- | Congratulations to the Polishing | + | By the way, the Federation' |
- | enjoying the June issue of their magazine - "Into the Blue"._ It is a 24-page issue of entertaining articles in which the reader can roam the world, and all the work of publication was done voluntarily by their own members! | + | |
- | 0 0 OOOOO 0 | + | Congratulations to the Publishing |
- | Here's good news for the mountaineers and ski-ers | + | |
- | ........ -we me me as | + | Here's good news for the mountaineers and skiers |
- | Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends; Where roll'd the ocean, thereon was his home; | + | |
- | Where a blue sky, a glowing clime, extends, | + | Where rose the mountains, there to him were friends;\\ |
- | He had the passion and the power to roam, | + | Where roll'd the ocean, thereon was his home;\\ |
- | Were unto him companionship; | + | Where a blue sky, a glowing clime, extends,\\ |
- | A mutual language, clearer than the tome | + | He had the passion and the power to roam,\\ |
- | Of his land's tongue, which he would oft forsake For Nature' | + | Were unto him companionship; |
- | -- Byron. | + | A mutual language, clearer than the tome\\ |
- | When I look at those trees growing right from the ground, I seem to feel something mysterious which comes from the trees and from the mother earth herself. And I seem to be living in them and they in me and with me. I do not know whether this communion could be called spiritual or not. I have no time to call it anything. I am just satisfied. Susuki of Japan. | + | Of his land's tongue, which he would oft forsake\\ |
- | CLUB GOSSIP | + | For Nature' |
+ | - Byron. | ||
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+ | When I look at those trees growing right from the ground, I seem to feel something mysterious which comes from the trees and from the mother earth herself. And I seem to be living in them and they in me and with me. I do not know whether this communion could be called spiritual or not. I have no time to call it anything. I am just satisfied. | ||
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+ | Susuki of Japan. | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Club gossip===== | ||
By " | By " | ||
Who was it said, "The pack is mightier than the poet"? We hopehe was wrong - but Grace has disappeared rather suddenly ... Oh, some of her friends say they have had letters; she is teaching in a girls' school at Tamworth. Sounds rather like going into a convent to keep a vow, doesn' | Who was it said, "The pack is mightier than the poet"? We hopehe was wrong - but Grace has disappeared rather suddenly ... Oh, some of her friends say they have had letters; she is teaching in a girls' school at Tamworth. Sounds rather like going into a convent to keep a vow, doesn' |
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