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 In conclusion, does anyone know the whereabouts of a cave of Red Hands near Euro Trig. Station above the Basin. Is it north, south, east or west of the cairn?
-==== THE END OF THE DROUGHT - MARCH 1941 ====
+===== THE END OF THE DROUGHT - MARCH 1941 =====
 by Marie B. Byles.
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 And the voice of many rushing waters falling\\ Has the mastery from the greatest to the least,\\ For it sings the end of years of death and terror,\\ And of misery for man and plant and beast.
-=== "DONNA BUANG" ===
+===== "DONNA BUANG" =====
 A letter from Dot English.
-There seems to be a little misunderstanding down here that when I have wailed publicly in the Sydney Bushwalker about the amount of inactivity I have been ildulging in lately in the way of walking, I have implicated the Melbourne Bushwalkers. Which is far from being the case. The keen members of that club :-.re out regularly in all weathers - hail rain or snow -.and the fact that I myself have temporarily renigged in favour of cycling must not be taken as an indication that the M.F3.'27, doesn't walk. It sure does.
+There seems to be a little misunderstanding down here that when I have wailed publicly in the Sydney Bushwalker about the amount of inactivity I have been indulging in lately in the way of walking, I have implicated the Melbourne Bushwalkers.  Which is far from being the case. T he keen members of that club are out regularly in all weathers - hail rain or snow -.and the fact that I myself have temporarily renigged in favour of cycling must not be taken as an indication that the M.B.W. doesn't walk. It sure does.
-To all my various friends in the S.13.71. who wrote to me on the occasion of my birthday just recently passed I would like to say thank-you. It was great to get your greetings. Talking of birthdays, you must hear this one. I was out camping last week-end and there was a young lad there who had just celebrated hip 21st birthday. He was telling us about a previous trip he had done, when unfortunately his party had been held up considerably by an elderly woman. "You shouldn't have taken an elderly woman with you," said -I, "when you knew it was going to be a strenuous trip." Here his cobber added a little bit more to th story. "She was 28", he said, 281 Elderly! Ye gods! After that I guess most of us might as well consult an undertaker and start making arrangements for our future cold-storage.
-Had a great, time last week-end. On Wednesday the papers recorded a very heavy fall of snow on the highlands, which was easy enough to believe as I had ridden to work that morning through a bonza hail-storm. I got quite exPert at catching the hailstones as they bounced in my mouth, and as a result of dilly-dallying about I arrived somewhat late to work.
+To all my various friends in the S.B.W. who wrote to me on the occasion of my birthday just recently passed I would like to say thank-you. It was great to get your greetings. Talking of birthdays, you must hear this one. I was out camping last weekend and there was a young lad there who had just celebrated his 21st birthday. He was telling us about a previous trip he had done, when unfortunately his party had been held up considerably by an elderly woman. "You shouldn't have taken an elderly woman with you," said I, "when you knew it was going to be a strenuous trip."  Here his cobber added a little bit more to the story. "She was 28", he said. 28! Elderly! Ye gods! After that I guess most of us might as well consult an undertaker and start making arrangements for our future cold-storage.
-I couldn't dig up anyone to come away with me to Donna Buang, our nearest snow mountain, as my friend Maudie is laid low with measles as a result of having recently taken to vegetarianism and health-food diet, and nobody else could get the necessary time off. (As there are no trains on Suhdays it meant getting back late Monday morning). So I went by myself. An early train on Saturday morning took me to 7arburton, a 1.ovely little township set in green meadowlands full of little white frisking lambkins, some 45 miles from Melbourne. From there a steep mountain 'track leads direct to the summit of Donna, about 6 miles up and up and up the hillsides wh ch had been heavily timbered until the cifEastrous bushfires of 1938 set the whole of Victoria and N.S.W. ablaze, killing off all the tall Eucalyptss There they stand, clean white dead trunks stretching 11.-) into the blue sky, and in among them the secondary growth of wattle, which has sprung up after the burning, shows bright green and gold.
-As I didn't expect to be able to do anything in the way of mountain climbing in Victoria I left my good climbing boots in Sydney, and am practising austerity in a pair of sandshoes with thu soles almost off, However I didn't have to put on any footwear till I got to the snow level, then about half-amile of running over the snow between bare patches convinced me that maybe the time had come to wear out the soles of my sandshoes a little further, so I donned same and by walking briskly through the foot deep now cape that clothed the tops I managed to keep sufficient cir6ulation going to prevent them getting cold, and when I got to the top I put on a pair of socks as well and they served their purpose admirably. There was a little young dog up
+Had a great time last weekend. On Wednesday the papers recorded a very heavy fall of snow on the highlands, which was easy enough to believe as I had ridden to work that morning through a bonza hail-storm. I got quite expert at catching the hailstones as they bounced in my mouth, and as a result of dilly-dallying about I arrived somewhat late to work.
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-there padding around in the snow in his bare feet and quite enjoying it, and what a dog can do surely, we can hx re a shot at doing too. Think what an advantage it would be if you didn't have to bother about boots in the alms. I remember on one occasion when climbing in I.Zealand we all took out boots, etc., off on the summit of one of the 10,000 ft. snow mountains so as to sunbake for a couple of hours on the warm rocks in the glorious sunshine, and it struck me at the time that if someone's boots happened to skid away for a few thousand feet down an ice slope and finish up in an inaccessible crevasse, what a sticky time said person would have trying to get down without them. It would call for quite a..sot of ingenuity, yes? I should imagine something approaching near panic would set in - like a hermit crab suddenly finding himself without his shell.
+I couldn't dig up anyone to come away with me to Donna Buang, our nearest snow mountain, as my friend Maudie is laid low with measles as a result of having recently taken to vegetarianism and health-food diet, and nobody else could get the necessary time off. (As there are no trains on Sundays it meant getting back late Monday morning). So I went by myself.  An early train on Saturday morning took me to Warburton, a lovely little township set in green meadowlands full of little white frisking lambkins, some 45 miles from Melbourne. From there a steep mountain track leads direct to the summit of Donna, about 6 miles up and up and up the hillsides which had been heavily timbered until the disastrous bushfires of 1938 set the whole of Victoria and N.S.W. ablaze, killing off all the tall Eucalyptus. There they stand, clean white dead trunks stretching into the blue sky, and in among them the secondary growth of wattle, which has sprung up after the burning, shows bright green and gold.
+As I didn't expect to be able to do anything in the way of mountain climbing in Victoria I left my good climbing boots in Sydney, and am practising austerity in a pair of sandshoes with the soles almost off.  However I didn't have to put on any footwear till I got to the snow level, then about half-a-mile of running over the snow between bare patches convinced me that maybe the time had come to wear out the soles of my sandshoes a little further, so I donned same and by walking briskly through the foot deep now cape that clothed the tops I managed to keep sufficient circulation going to prevent them getting cold, and when I got to the top I put on a pair of socks as well and they served their purpose admirably. There was a little young dog up there padding around in the snow in his bare feet and quite enjoying it, and what a dog can do surely, we can have a shot at doing too. Think what an advantage it would be if you didn't have to bother about boots in the alps. I remember on one occasion when climbing in New Zealand we all took our boots, etc., off on the summit of one of the 10,000 ft. snow mountains so as to sunbake for a couple of hours on the warm rocks in the glorious sunshine, and it struck me at the time that if someone's boots happened to skid away for a few thousand feet down an ice slope and finish up in an inaccessible crevasse, what a sticky time said person would have trying to get down without them. It would call for quite a spot of ingenuity, yes? I should imagine something approaching near panic would set in - like a hermit crab suddenly finding himself without his shell.
 But I digress. Where was I?
-There was a most magnificent view from the summit of Donna (4,000 odd ft,)
+There was a most magnificent view from the summit of Donna (4,000 odd ft.).  From a lookout tower some 80 or 100 ft. high the whole of the Main Range could be seen, completely snow-covered - parts of Buffalo, Mt. Feathertop, Buller, Bogong High Plains, and what we think was Kosciusko (I have yet to check that up but it was in the right direction).
-From a lookout tower some 80 or 100 ft. high the whole of the Main Range could be seen, som7letely snow-covered - parts of Buffalo, Mt.Feathertop, Buller, Bogong High Plains, and what we think was Kosciusko (I have yet to check that ups but it was in the right direction.
-About 20 lads with their skis were rushing up and down the three cleared runs on the slopes. A small party occupied the University Ski Club -hut, a nicely furnished little place, complete with the traditional tap just above the mantlepiece, connected with a keg outside where the beer was kept in the great outdoors atmospheric cooler, Another party had taken over the Alpine Ski Club hut which had bunk-room for about 40 (double-bunking), and room again for at least 50 more on the floors - it is a two-storied hut. The place is a hive of activity in good seasons in the- days B.P.R.(Before Patrol Rationing), but there were only a handful there on this occasion.
+About 20 lads with their skis were rushing up and down the three cleared runs on the slopes. A small party occupied the University Ski Club hut, a nicely furnished little place, complete with the traditional tap just above the mantlepiece, connected with a keg outside where the beer was kept in the great outdoors atmospheric cooler.  Another party had taken over the Alpine Ski Club hut which had bunk-room for about 40 (double-bunking), and room again for at least 50 more on the floors - it is a two-storied hut. The place is a hive of activity in good seasons in the days B.P.R.(Before Patrol Rationing), but there were only a handful there on this occasion.
-' I took up my abode right on the summit of the mountain, in a little in shed, complete with a wooden floor and a great big roaring log fire-place. I shared with two other young lads who had just graduated out of the Scouts
+I took up my abode right on the summit of the mountain, in a little tin shed, complete with a wooden floor and a great big roaring log fire-place. I shared with two other young lads who had just graduated out of the Scouts
 and they were thrilled to death to hear all about N.Z. climbing country and our Blue Mountains. They kept me talking all the week-end about it - most enthusiastic little beggars. We ate round the blazing eucalyptus fire and slept in a luxury of warmth in front of it, while outside the full moon shone on a world of white. It reminded me very strongly of the happy hut days of a few years back when I was holidaying in our little green sister isle.
-I have solved the problem of the Victorian weather; all you have to
-do is get high enough and there is the sunshine. Al]: the Melbourne mist and murk hung about a thousand feet below, while the tops (and us who inhabited them) were bathed in sunshine. I didn't feel like going to town at all,
+I have solved the problem of the Victorian weather; all you have to do is get high enough and there is the sunshine.  All the Melbourne mist and murk hung about a thousand feet below, while the tops (and us who inhabited them) were bathed in sunshine. I didn't feel like going to town at all, but some of the boys had a spare seat in their car so I accepted the offer and got back about 10 p m. Sunday. Already there are great plans ahead for another visit next week-end.
-but some of the boys had a spare seat in their car so I accepted the offer and got back about 10 p m. Sunday. Already there are great plans ahead for another visit next week-end.
-,
+===== SPEAK NOW OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE! =====
-SPEAK NOW
-OR FOREVER HOLD YOUR PEACE!
 by Marie B. Byle
-Youth Hostels are coming to New South Wales. Maybe you welcome them; maybe you do not. It does not matter. What does matter, and what you can control if you take the trouble, are the places where they are to go. The following places are being suggested to the Youth Hostels Committee, What you do think about them?
-Dillon's Farm between Patonga and vloy Woy, Era, Manly Reservoir, the place on the divide betwen Middle Harbour and Cowan Creek near the French's For_st Road, are the immediate prejects.
+Youth Hostels are coming to New South Wales. Maybe you welcome them; maybe you do not. It does not matter.  What does matter, and what you can control if you take the trouble, are the places where they are to go. The following places are being suggested to the Youth Hostels Committee. What you do think about them?
-A long range scheme includes: Farms in the Killcare-Kincumber area; and Miss Hulme of Putty Beach and Mr. Dunlop of Little Beach are being appro:lched also; Kuringai Chase and the boarding house at Flint and Steel Bay may be approached, also the Trust for the use of the Trust's cottage at Toler's Bay; Patonga and use of ca= lodges.
-Longer periods aim at youth hostels in the Burragorang Valley, Kangaroo Valley, Barrington Tops, Skyline tour of Main Dividing Range, Hawkesbury River, Northern Lakes, Lake Macquarie, use of aline huts for ski-ing.
+Dillon's Farm between Patonga and Woy Woy, Era, Manly Reservoir, the place on the divide betwen Middle Harbour and Cowan Creek near the French's Forest Road, are the immediate prejects.
-Speak Nowl or forever hold hold your Icleace! ROADLESS AREAS
-Another thing you can do, is to set forth in writing your -proposals as to what areas should be kept roadless. Please give parish and county as well as locality, and if possible accompany with a ma-0.
+A long range scheme includes: Farms in the Killcare-Kincumber area; and Miss Hulme of Putty Beach and Mr. Dunlop of Little Beach are being approached also; Kuringai Chase and the boarding house at Flint and Steel Bay may be approached, also the Trust for the use of the Trust's cottage at Towler's Bay; Patonga and use of camp lodges.
-It is probable that a committee will be established in connection with the National Fitness campaign to divide areas into roadless and tourist areas as has long been advocated by the N.P.P.A.C. If so, what you send in will be placed before it.
-If you are not willing to help well, don't come along afterwards with complaints, or even suggestions.
+Longer periods aim at youth hostels in the Burragorang Valley, Kangaroo Valley, Barrington Tops, Skyline tour of Main Dividing Range, Hawkesbury River, Northern Lakes, Lake Macquarie, use of alpine huts for ski-ing.
-Trite now Map now! Or forever-hold your peace!. ALL CONTRIBUTIONS THANKFULLY RECEIVED BY THE WRITER.
-DON'T THINK ALL FOLKS IS LOWBROW WITH NO BEAUTY IN THEIR SOULS
+Speak Now! or forever hold hold your peace!
- EF THEY DON'T STAND THERE AGAPIN WITH
-THEIR EYES AS DIG AS BOWLS
+__Roadless Areas__
- AT SOME MASTERPIECE OR CANVAS IN A MILLYUN-DOLLAR HALL - "CAUSE THEY MAY BE USED TO REAL =is
-BY THE MASTER OF THEY ALL.
+Another thing you can do, is to set forth in writing your proposals as to what areas should be kept roadless. Please give parish and county as well as locality, and if possible accompany with a map.
-THE LEGEND OF LALINGTON NATIONAL P.RK - JACK D2,BERT. (From book,Rn...Laminztonl_prepared by (11d.Forestry_pept).
+It is probable that a committee will be established in connection with the National Fitness campaign to divide areas into roadless and tourist areas as has long been advocated by the N.P.P.A.C.  If so, what you send in will be placed before it.
+If you are not willing to help, well, don't come along afterwards with complaints, or even suggestions.
+Write now! Map now! Or forever-hold your peace!.
+ALL CONTRIBUTIONS THANKFULLY RECEIVED BY THE WRITER.
+DON'T THINK ALL FOLKS IS LOWBROW\\ WITH NO BEAUTY IN THEIR SOULS\\ EF THEY DON'T STAND THERE AGAPIN WITH\\ THEIR EYES AS BIG AS BOWLS\\ AT SOME MASTERPIECE OR CANVAS\\ IN A MILLYUN-DOLLAR HALL\\ "CAUSE THEY MAY BE USED TO REAL ONES\\ BY THE MASTER OF THEM ALL.
+===== THE LEGEND OF LALINGTON NATIONAL PARK =====
+by Jack Debert (from a book on Lamington prepared by Qld.Forestry Dept).
 Back in the Dawn of Creation, Mount Wanungara, the Queen of the Mountains,
 had twin daughters, Princess Tooloona and Princess Caningera, who with silver
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 Recently an Allied Nations Naval Officer walked into the shop. We were busy demonstrating waterproof sleeping bags to a couple of soldiers.
-?Thar_ it came to the A.N.N.O. (Allied Nations Naval Officer) we wondered what he wanted. Naval men don't go in for camipin,3 gear as a rule. He explained that ordinairily he slept in his bunk below but when it was hot he liked to rig up a temporairy bed on deck and sleeD there. Thinking something good and solid would suit the Navy, we showed him all the heavy weight duck bags we had about the place, but imagine our surprise when he picked out a "Paddymade" Midget Tont - the feather weight tent cum groundsheet cum mosquito net and "reckoned that was just about his seed.
-You can nevc;r tell what folks will choose - yet you can be sure of
+When it came to the A.N.N.O. (Allied Nations Naval Officer) we wondered what he wanted. Naval men don't go in for camping gear as a rule. He explained that ordinarily he slept in his bunk below but when it was hot he liked to rig up a temporary bed on deck and sleep there. Thinking something good and solid would suit the Navy, we showed him all the heavy weight duck bags we had about the place, but imagine our surprise when he picked out a "Paddymade" Midget Tent - the feather weight tent cum groundsheet cum mosquito net and "reckoned that was just about his speed".
-"PADDY-MADE".
+You can never tell what folks will choose - yet you can be sure of "PADDY-MADE".
 PADDY PALLIN,
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