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In a crowd of 15 to 20 people - and official walks often number that, and would number more if people were not partly impervious to propaganda - do you get to know anything more about people than their names and faces? Do you find out if they keep good-tempered when they are tired, whether they can find their own way through the bush, and unless you happen to be in the rear of the party, even whether they drag behind? Often I have been asked to support the nomination of a prospective member who has been on some official walk I have been on, and I have had only the vaguest idea of both his walking capabilities and his character. But a person who has been with me on a small private walk remains indelibly impressed on my mind together with all his virtues and vices. | In a crowd of 15 to 20 people - and official walks often number that, and would number more if people were not partly impervious to propaganda - do you get to know anything more about people than their names and faces? Do you find out if they keep good-tempered when they are tired, whether they can find their own way through the bush, and unless you happen to be in the rear of the party, even whether they drag behind? Often I have been asked to support the nomination of a prospective member who has been on some official walk I have been on, and I have had only the vaguest idea of both his walking capabilities and his character. But a person who has been with me on a small private walk remains indelibly impressed on my mind together with all his virtues and vices. | ||
- | I put it to you that you do not get to know people on Club walks, anyhow not intimately enough to know if they are good bush men and women. | + | I put it to you that you do **not** get to know people on Club walks, anyhow not intimately enough to know if they are good bush men and women. |
**And What About Bushcraft? | **And What About Bushcraft? | ||
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I do not want to decry Field Week Ends, and lectures and demonstrations may be useful, but they do not teach bushcraft. The only teacher of bushcraft is the bush, and the only guides are your own mistakes. Until you have been lost, you cannot say you can find your way. It is only in the small party that you can learn to do things for yourself and learn to find your own way. | I do not want to decry Field Week Ends, and lectures and demonstrations may be useful, but they do not teach bushcraft. The only teacher of bushcraft is the bush, and the only guides are your own mistakes. Until you have been lost, you cannot say you can find your way. It is only in the small party that you can learn to do things for yourself and learn to find your own way. | ||
- | I put it to. you that you do not learn bushcraft on Club Walks, nor even on Field Week Ends. | + | I put it to you that you do **not** learn bushcraft on Club Walks, nor even on Field Week Ends. |
**Bush Hosts and Hostesses** | **Bush Hosts and Hostesses** | ||
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===== Club Gossip ===== | ===== Club Gossip ===== | ||
- | Edith Finlay(S.B.W.) and Bill Watson(Rover Ramblers) have announced their engagement, and we offer our congratulations to both parties in this inter-club event. | + | Edith Finlay (S.B.W.) and Bill Watson (Rover Ramblers) have announced their engagement, and we offer our congratulations to both parties in this inter-club event. |
- | We extend our sympathy to those members and prospectives who got their feet burned on a recent " | + | We extend our sympathy to those members and prospectives who got their feet burned on a recent " |
Did you hear of Ray Bean's splendid gift to the Bushwalker' | Did you hear of Ray Bean's splendid gift to the Bushwalker' | ||
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By " | By " | ||
- | We all store away our impressions and memories in a series of photographicslide-like mental pictures of the happenings | + | We all store away our impressions and memories in a series of photographic-slide-like mental pictures of the happenings |
- | -- Scores of cheery, chattering Walkers, each with a bulging | + | |
- | -- Paddy and others tying odd parcels and paraphenalia | + | |
- | -- The lass who succeeded in securing a front seat in the bus htving | + | |
- | -- The camp during two glorious sunny d-tys and under the calm serenity of the full moon that was Nature' | + | |
- | -- Many little tents under the casuarinas, with the smoke of cooking fires curling lazily into the purple dusk. | + | |
- | -- Members of the various clubs enjoying gay and happy camerderie | + | |
- | -- Folks coming, singly and in groups, to the " | + | |
- | -- Vice President Dorothy Lawry (in the unavoidable absence, through illness, of President Oliver Wyndham) officiating at the Fire Lighting Ceremony, and the representatives of each affiliated club coming forward, in turn, and lighting their Club Torch from the blazing Federation Torch she held. | + | |
- | --How the great Camp Fire leapt into life when the lighted Club Torches were thrust into the prepared kindling among the large logs. | + | |
- | -- Everyone enjoying the gay laughter and singing - community and solo - melodious harmonicas; the radio thriller", | + | |
- | victim. | + | |
- | -- Specially the slow solemn procession of cooks and butcher bearing the Barbecue Supper, done to a turn and emanating very tempting odours. The munching | + | |
- | of mutton and appreciative licking of greasing fingers. | + | |
- | -- Large interested audiences watching the Rock Climbing demonstrations, | + | |
- | various dangling ropes. | + | |
- | -- Comic capers in and out of canoes, by capable and incapable canoeists. | + | |
- | -- The popularity of the swimming pool. Lounging groups chatting lazily under the shade of green trees. | + | |
- | -- A 'mud fight' between the boys of rival clubs. How they were plastered from head to foot with black clinging mud. The innocant | + | |
- | -- The long shadows | + | |
That is the end of the series of " | That is the end of the series of " | ||
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Please mention this magazine when you purchase goods from our advertisers | Please mention this magazine when you purchase goods from our advertisers | ||
- | - 13 t. | + | ---- |
- | Fifteen days left | + | |
+ | **Fifteen days left** | ||
Only 15 shopping days to Christmas. | Only 15 shopping days to Christmas. | ||
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Use them well. Overhaul your gear; make a list of repairs and see Paddy pronto. | Use them well. Overhaul your gear; make a list of repairs and see Paddy pronto. | ||
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Early shopping will help you by securing quicker service and save Paddy (and Oliver and the girls) a few headaches. | Early shopping will help you by securing quicker service and save Paddy (and Oliver and the girls) a few headaches. | ||
- | PADDY PALLIN, | + | |
- | Camp Gear for Walkers 327 Cieorge | + | PADDY PALLIN,\\ |
+ | Camp Gear for Walkers\\ | ||
+ | 327 George | ||
Tel. B3101. | Tel. B3101. | ||
- | ===== AT OUR OWN MEETING | + | ===== At Our Own Meeting |
+ | At the November meeting there were no new members welcomed, but there were new Room Stewards appointed. When the usual call for volunteers was made there was a pause, and then a rush, so now we have four Room Stewards - Arnie Barrett, Roley Cotter, Brian Harvey, and Jo. Newland, to list them alphabetically. | ||
- | At the November meeting there were no new members welcomed, but there were new Room Stewards appointed. When the usual call for volunteers was made there was a pause, and then a rush, so now we have four Room Stewards --Arnie Barrett, Roley Cotter, Brian Harvey, and Jo.Newland, | ||
In connection with arrangements for the Field Week-end on the 15th and 16th November, it was reported that the launch service between Cronulla and Bundeena has been curtailed owing to petrol rationing, and there is now no | In connection with arrangements for the Field Week-end on the 15th and 16th November, it was reported that the launch service between Cronulla and Bundeena has been curtailed owing to petrol rationing, and there is now no | ||
- | ferry between 2 p m. and about 3.20 p m. on Saturdays. The best trains to catch leave StoTames | + | ferry between 2 p m. and about 3.20 p m. on Saturdays. The best trains to catch leave St James at about 12.40 p m. on Saturdays or about 8.45 a m. on Sundays. |
Another change to be noted, this time by Era-ites, is that the 8.35 a m. on Sundays to Lilyvale has been moved forward five minutes and now leaves at 8.30 a m. | Another change to be noted, this time by Era-ites, is that the 8.35 a m. on Sundays to Lilyvale has been moved forward five minutes and now leaves at 8.30 a m. | ||
- | " | ||
- | Once again Johnny Manson' | + | " |
- | and request him to remove the notices, since he erected them, and if he does not comply with the request, the Federation to get them removed. | + | |
+ | Once again Johnny Manson' | ||
Following on this discussion, the meeting resolved to suggest to the Federation the desirability of its going into the matter of forming a definite policy regarding tracks and the marking of tracks, its draft policy to be submitted to the clubs for approval; after the adoption of a policy in this regard, all clubs to co-operate and control their members in this direction. Upon adoption, the policy regarding tracks and the marking of tracks should be well publicised amongst all bushwalkers. | Following on this discussion, the meeting resolved to suggest to the Federation the desirability of its going into the matter of forming a definite policy regarding tracks and the marking of tracks, its draft policy to be submitted to the clubs for approval; after the adoption of a policy in this regard, all clubs to co-operate and control their members in this direction. Upon adoption, the policy regarding tracks and the marking of tracks should be well publicised amongst all bushwalkers. | ||
All enthusiasts who are thinking of making any " | All enthusiasts who are thinking of making any " | ||
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The Editor' | The Editor' | ||
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- | ===== LETTERS FROM THE LADS -- No.9 ===== | + | ===== Letters from the Lads - No.9 ===== |
From Tom Moppett. | From Tom Moppett. | ||
- | The Editor approached Jean Moppett. with !That news of Tom, and can we have something from his letters for the magazine?" | + | he Editor approached Jean Moppett with " |
- | "Well, although I am not the perfect sailor, by exercising care have managed fairly comfortably ..Am not sure yet if I like ships. Will be able to say by end of voyage, but there is that ship smell. It is certainly far inferior to a good campsite on the Kowmung..... | + | |
- | ...Have just left Auckland....The country round Auckland was all low hills, many of a pea%y shape; there were some sandy beaches, but near Auckland rocky cliffs fronted the water suggesting England' | + | "Well, although I am not the perfect sailor, by exercising care have managed fairly comfortably |
- | wide and deep and swift be excellent for canoeing - that is, down it... | + | |
- | ....Rotorua was interesting but that was all .. the whole place is pervaded | + | "...Have just left Auckland....The country round Auckland was all low hills, many of a peaky shape; there were some sandy beaches, but near Auckland rocky cliffs fronted the water suggesting England' |
- | by a smell of sulphur which would take quite a bit of getting used to we | + | |
- | first smelt it at least 10 miles away. | + | " |
- | Left Suva yesterday afternoon, 18/8/41, having arrived very early the previous morning. The tropical uniforms are a great idea. I don't like this mtggy heat at all, but at least my clothes don't irk me.... Can't say I think much of Suva . there does not seem much for a visitor to do or see, we even found it most difficult to get a feed... When I came up the next morning I was quite surprised to see the size of Suva, because there had been so few lights during the night, not that Suva is big. After breakfast we went for a march, about miles, finishing up outside the Bank N.S.W. and Bank N.Z. where we got El worth Fiji currency (.: | + | |
- | "...We joined a party going to a native Fiji village about ten miles away...The Fijians appear good tempered, pleasant people, quite good blokes in fact. They sang and danced for us and gave us Kava, the local drink, in cups made of half cocoanuts. It is most unpleasant - looks and tastes like muddy water - but leaves a clean taste in the mouth....The dancing was merely shuffling about in time to the music. Four of us were honoured by being asked to partner the women during a couple of the dances. With two dancing it is still a shuffling step of a few inches, the partners standing side by side, with arms round waists. Our partners had dressed in their best for the occasion, one in blue cotton with white flowers, and one in delicate pink. I thought I made rather a good job of the dancing, in fact even improved it with the addition of a spin. It was a most interesting visit.... | + | "...We joined a party going to a native Fiji village about ten miles away...The Fijians appear good tempered, pleasant people, quite good blokes in fact. They sang and danced for us and gave us Kava, the local drink, in cups made of half coconuts. It is most unpleasant - looks and tastes like muddy water - but leaves a clean taste in the mouth....The dancing was merely shuffling about in time to the music. Four of us were honoured by being asked to partner the women during a couple of the dances. With two dancing it is still a shuffling step of a few inches, the partners standing side by side, with arms round waists. Our partners had dressed in their best for the occasion, one in blue cotton with white flowers, and one in delicate pink. I thought I made rather a good job of the dancing, in fact even improved it with the addition of a spin. It was a most interesting visit.... |
This goes as far as page 31, so the rest will have to keep till some other time. | This goes as far as page 31, so the rest will have to keep till some other time. | ||
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- | .THE VOICE OF THE SriCIAL COMMITTEE | + | |
- | ATTENTI,0 N PLEASE: | + | ===== The Voice of the Social Committee ===== |
- | | + | SAYS |
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- | January 16th (Friday) | + | **ATTENTION |
- | 8.15 p m. Lecture with Coloured Slides -- | + | |
- | " | + | | December 16th\\ (Tuesday)|6.30 p.m.|CHRISTMAS DINNER PARTY\\ (see below)| |
- | Mr..MEL.WARD of the Australian | + | |January 16th\\ (Friday)|8.15 p.m.|Lecture with Coloured Slides -- \\ " |
- | Museum, | + | |January 30th\\ (Friday)|8.15 p.m.|NIGHT OF SURPRISES by the Bushwalkers' |
- | January 30th (Friday) | + | |February 4th\\ (Wednesday)|7.30 p.m.|MOONLIGHT LAUNCH TRIP to BALMORAL\\ -- swimming and or dancing and supper.| |
- | 8.15 p m. NIGHT OF SURPRISES by the Bushwalkersf | + | |
- | February 4th (Wednesday) | + | |
- | 7.30 P.m, MOONLIGHT LAUNCH TRIP to BALMORAL -- swimming and or dancing and supper. | + | |
MORE ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS DINNER PARTY: | MORE ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS DINNER PARTY: | ||
- | We are pleased to announfe | + | |
- | Dinner Music and severalitems | + | We are pleased to announce |
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+ | Dinner Music and several items of entertainment have now been added to the list of attractions. | ||
BUT PLEASE! ONE SPECIAL APPEAL , NO, TWO! | BUT PLEASE! ONE SPECIAL APPEAL , NO, TWO! | ||
- | 1. Will you not dome without letting the Social Secretary know? | + | |
+ | I. Will you not come without letting the Social Secretary know? | ||
- (As there would then be no food for you!) | - (As there would then be no food for you!) | ||
- | If your name is on the list and you find you cant come, will you also let the Social Secretary know? (Or youlll | + | |
+ | II. If your name is on the list and you find you can' | ||
WE THANK YOU. | WE THANK YOU. |
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