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 One of the main items of Federation News is that Council has decided that in future its meetings shall be opened to a "gallery" of any interested members of affiliated clubs. They may attend and listen, but not join in the discussions or vote, of course. The meetings are now being held at the Scout Club Room, Carrington Street, Sydney, at 6.15 p m. on the third Tuesday in each month. If you are interested, there is NO excuse for not knowing what the Federation is doing.
-In fact there is no excuse for not joining what the Federation is doing, for this month they asked for various helpers as well as announcing that the Clear Hill working Bee had marked and defined the wallaby Track which i part of Duncan's Pass. Some unknown person or persons have cut away the dangerots ladders.
-The digging of three Wl1s in Corral Swamp having been postponed till c the weather got warmer, this Working Bee is being organised by Brian Harvey for the end of Ottober or early in November, and volunteers were called for.
+In fact there is no excuse for not joining what the Federation is doing, for this month they asked for various helpers as well as announcing that the Clear Hill working Bee had marked and defined the wallaby Track which is part of Duncan's Pass. Some unknown person or persons have cut away the dangerous ladders.
- To prevent destruction in the valley of Heathcote Creek, the Forestry
+The digging of three Wel1s in Corral Swamp having been postponed till the weather got warmer. This Working Bee is being organised by Brian Harvey for the end of October or early in November, and volunteers were called for.
-Commission has asked the Federation to nominate some Honorary Foresters. Charles Rolfe and Charles Pryde of the S.B.W. have agreed to accept nomination.
-The Department of Local Government having asked the Federation to arrange for a number of copies of the Protected Wild Flowers Proclamation to be taken into the bush and fixed in conspicuous ,4aces, several members present at the S.B.W. October meeting took the calico proclamations for erection.
+To prevent destruction in the valley of Heathcote Creek, the Forestry Commission has asked the Federation to nominate some Honorary Foresters. Charles Rolfe and Charles Pryde of the S.B.W. have agreed to accept nomination.
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-Similar assistance is being sought by the Bushfires Advisory Council
+The Department of Local Government having asked the Federation to arrange for a number of copies of the Protected Wild Flowers Proclamation to be taken into the bush and fixed in conspicuous places, several members present at the S.B.W. October meeting took the calico proclamations for erection.
-but their Bushfire Posters have not yet been received. When Tom Moppett gets
-a supply, you could take one or two and erect them in suitable spots. There are probably still some Wild Flower Proclamations available too.
+Similar assistance is being sought by the Bushfires Advisory Council but their Bushfire Posters have not yet been received. When Tom Moppett gets a supply, you could take one or two and erect them in suitable spots. There are probably still some Wild Flower Proclamations available too.
-If you want to do something bigger and better for the bushwalking movement itself, the Publicity Bureau offers you the chance. It has a panel of lecturers who give talks about various phases of bushwalking to any outside groups who ask for lectures, and it is now forming a panel of bushcraft instructors to go out "hiking" with interested groups who are not affiliated
-clubs but who wish to learn how to bushwalk. The Publicity Bureau is asking
+If you want to do something bigger and better for the bushwalking movement itself, the Publicity Bureau offers you the chance. It has a panel of lecturers who give talks about various phases of bushwalking to any outside groups who ask for lectures, and it is now forming a panel of bushcraft instructors to go out "hiking" with interested groups who are not affiliated clubs but who wish to learn how to bushwalk. The Publicity Bureau is asking for volunteers as Lecturers and as Bushcraft Instructors -- see either Horrie Salmon of the Trampers Club or Dorothy Lawry of the S.B.W. if you are willing to help in this way.
-for volunteers as Lecturers and as Busheraft Instructors -- see either Horrie Salmon of the Trampers Club or Dorothy Lawry of the S.B.W. if you are willing to help in this way.
 SLEEP BENEATH THE STARS
 by R.L.Stevenson.
 Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature, What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps a-field, All night long he can hear Nature breathing deeply and freely; even as she takes her i'est she turns and smiles; and there is one stirring hour unknown to those who dwell in houses, when a wakeful influence goes abroad over the sleeping hemisphere, and all the outdoor world are on their feet. It is then that the cock first crows, not this time to announce the dawn, but like a cheerful watchman speeding the course of night. Cattle awake on the meadows; shee7: break their fast on dewy hillsides, and change to a new lair among the ferns; and houseless men, who have lain down with the fowls, open their dim eyes and behold the beauty of the night.
 At what inaudible summons, at what gentle touch of Nature, are all these sleepers thus recalled in the same hour to life? Do the stars rain down an influence, or do we share some thrill of mother earth below our resting bodies? Even shepherds and old country-folk, who are the deepest read in these arcana, have not a guess as to the means or purpose of this nightly resurrection. Toward two in the morning they declare the thing takes place; and neither know nor inquire further. And at least it is a pleasant incident. We are disturbed in our slumber only, like the luxurious Montaigne, "that we may the better and more sensibly relish it." We have a moment to look upon the stars. And there is a special pleasure for some minds in the reflection that we share the impulse with all out-door creatures in our neighbourhood, that we have escaped out of the Bastille of civilisation, and are become, for the time being, a mere kindly animal and a sheep of Nature's flock.
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 ON EYELIDS
-Borrow a mirror and look into the nasal corner of the eye and you will
-see a crescent i--.11aped fold of tissue, known as the half-moon fold. In man this structure has no great use, it is like the appendix, and is simply the remnant of a third eyelid known as the nictitating membrane.
+Borrow a mirror and look into the nasal corner of the eye and you will see a crescent shaped fold of tissue, known as the half-moon fold. In man this structure has no great use, it is like the appendix, and is simply the remnant of a third eyelid known as the nictitating membrane.
 It is found in some reptiles, all birds and some herbivorous mammals. These latter often graze in long and sharp grass and require protection against the spears of grass which might enter the eye.
 In a particular form of desert alligator this third eyelid is well developed and possesses a window, so that in a sand storm the lid can be closed and the reptile can still see through the window.
 In certain snakes the upper and lower lids disappear completely and the nictitating membrane completely covers the eyeball and becomes transparent,and forms a fixed film like a watchglass in front of the eye. Tear fluid then washes the eye and passes down the throat without ever reaching the surface. The watch-glass film becomes hardened, insensitive, scratched and scarred, but is renewed whenever the snake sheds its skin.
-You have no nictitating membrane over your eyes, and you can't shed your skir4 but you can protect your sight by consulting Morrie Stephenson.
+You have no nictitating membrane over your eyes, and you can't shed your skin but you can protect your sight by consulting Morrie Stephenson.
 ON STRENGTH
 One holiday week-end not so long ago, a large party of Club members hired a drive yourself truck to take them to their starting point. Like most trucks, it was not so new and they had more than a spot of bother with it.
-On one of the various occasions when horse..-power had to be replaced by man-power, one of the girls noticed --
-The mechanics (?) of the party had given up tinkering and all the men of the party were pushing, shoving and heaving at the recalcitrant truck; all, that is, except the Strong Man of the party, who was standing on a log, solemnly and blissfully practising "strong man" stunts::
+On one of the various occasions when horsepower had to be replaced by man-power, one of the girls noticed the mechanics (?) of the party had given up tinkering and all the men of the party were pushing, shoving and heaving at the recalcitrant truck; all, that is, except the Strong Man of the party, who was standing on a log, solemnly and blissfully practising "strong man" stunts.
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 CLUB GOSSIP
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-"and i never saw a city full of men manage to be as happy as a congregation of mosquitoes who have discovered a fat man on a camping trip" Archy
+"And i never saw a city full of men manage to be as happy as a congregation of mosquitoes who have discovered a fat man on a camping trip" Archy
 From Archy's Life of Mehitabel. by Don Marquis,
+**The Poor Cow** by Jack Debert.
-THE POOR COW
+"Mumbedah" is to be congratulated upon his article "The Cox and the Cow" for apart from it having an appealing and appropriate heading, it is a timely one and contains a wealth of commonsense. Unfortunately it contains a few statements that all walkers cannot be agreed upon.
-by Jack Debert.
-"Mumbedah" is to be congratulated upon his article "The Cox and the Cow" for apart from it having an appealing and appropriate heading, it is a timely one and contains a wealth of commonsense. Unfortunately it contains a few4statements that all walkers cannot be agreed upon.
-Can you walkers imagine just what will happen should our Greater Blue Mountains National P;Ark dream be realized and cows prohibited from the domain? What tracks do walkers follow down the nwmung, Breakfast Creek, the Cox and other places, walkers' tracks or cowpads? Admittedly cows are destruc- tive, but if cows did not roa \m along those places the cow ads (our tracks, which we few walkers do not frequent -eiiciugh-to keep in a s ate of repair)
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-would soon go the way of wild things. Nettles would bar the way up Breakfast Creek. Blackthorns and blackberries would prevent progress in other parts. Take for example the upper parts of Harry's or Jenolan River where the cows do not bother to go. Do you know where the bush walker walks there Mumbedah? Well he doesn't! He wades in the river with blackberry briars to the left of them, blackberry briars to the right of them and in many cases blackberry briars above them as well.
-I have been walking many years but not sufficiently long enough to know whether cows,, civilization or what brought these pests into those areas. Most of our pests are imported (that goes for me too) nevertheless when once the pests are here we should endeavour to overcome them. The cows do quite a lot of good for the walker and 1 have yet to have it proved conclusively that the destruction they do outweighs their benefits.
+Can you walkers imagine just what will happen should our Greater Blue Mountains National Park dream be realized and cows prohibited from the domain?  What tracks do walkers follow down the Kowmung, Breakfast Creek, the Cox and other places, walkers tracks or cowpads? Admittedly cows are destructive, but if cows did not roam along those places the cow ads (our tracks, which we few walkers do not frequent enough to keep in a state of repair) would soon go the way of wild things. Nettles would bar the way up Breakfast Creek. Blackthorns and blackberries would prevent progress in other parts. Take for example the upper parts of Harry's or Jenolan River where the cows do not bother to go. Do you know where the bush walker walks there Mumbedah? Well he doesn't! He wades in the river with blackberry briars to the left of them, blackberry briars to the right of them and in many cases blackberry briars above them as well.
-The statement about "the terrain been unsuitable  than ever greet the slaughterman" is a misstatement. ' Good money has been made by stockmen from cattle in the Kowmung by the men who knew their business. When new chums put in domestic cows, almost devoid of life preserving instincts (like some city slickers) those poor cows had not enough sense to get off the river flats when floods were raging down the Kowmung. The wilder cattle, belonging to the men who knew their game, calmly climbed up the hillsides and remained alive, not to ell the tale, but to help obtain proof of what happened,
+I have been walking many years but not sufficiently long enough to know whether cows, civilization or what brought these pests into those areas. Most of our pests are imported (that goes for me too) nevertheless when once the pests are here we should endeavour to overcome them. The cows do quite a lot of good for the walker and 1 have yet to have it proved conclusively that the destruction they do outweighs their benefits.
-The erection of wooden guards is a sound suggestion, but unless they are of very strong structure they will not withstand the cows' attacks. 1 have had barbed wire entanglements knocked down by domestically
-inclined cows who sighed for and desired the taste of my prize cauliflowers and cabbages. Nevertheless the scheme has much to commend it for I have kept close watch on certain groves of casurina saplings in the Burragorang and wherever those saplings managed to survive the cattle's desires long enough for their top of the main centre branch to be out of cows neck distance - well they grew and grew right into the air.
+The statement about "the terrain been unsuitable than ever greet the slaughterman" is a misstatement. ' Good money has been made by stockmen from cattle in the Kowmung by the men who knew their business. When new chums put in domestic cows, almost devoid of life preserving instincts (like some city slickers) those poor cows had not enough sense to get off the river flats when floods were raging down the Kowmung. The wilder cattle, belonging to the men who knew their game, calmly climbed up the hillsides and remained alive, not to tell the tale, but to help obtain proof of what happened,
+The erection of wooden guards is a sound suggestion, but unless they are of very strong structure they will not withstand the cows attacks. I have had barbed wire entanglements knocked down by domestically
+inclined cows who sighed for and desired the taste of my prize cauliflowers and cabbages. Nevertheless the scheme has much to commend it for I have kept close watch on certain groves of casurina saplings in the Burragorang and wherever those saplings managed to survive the cattle's desires long enough for their top of the main centre branch to be out of cows neck distance - well they grew and grew right into the air. One glorious example is to be seen just below Paradise Pool where Coleman's Creek joins the Wollondilly River four miles above the Wollondilly bridge at Upper Burragorang.
-One glorious example is to be seen just below Paradise Pool where Coleman's Creek joins the Wollondilly River four miles above the Wollondilly bridge at Upper Burragorang.
 A solution to the felling of casurinas would be to ask the Government to declare them a protected tree, only to be lopped for stock feeding. Many years ago the Upper Burragorang Progress Association endeavoured to have the trees protected, but failed, If the Federation combined with the Soil Erosion Department tried for protection nowadays they should prove more successful.
-Be canny wi' tho firewood 1
+Be canny wi' the firewood !