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- | !-Jook: Look t Civilization | + | ====Civilization.==== |
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- | --...--. -.... --.._/ | + | by Dot English. |
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- | -- ,---.----- tei,---77 \ I- | + | [Cartoon of two walkers in desert approaching a cactus covered with signs displaying newspaper headlines such as " |
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- | fo-RoeiTit: | + | Caption: "Look! Look! Civilization at last!" |
- | 2000004 | + | |
- | Several of our Naval and Military lads have been visiting the Club room lately the latest | + | ---- |
- | The Navy, rew: | + | |
- | Don't they inoculate them before they go abroad'? | + | =====I Spy.===== |
- | It is not our place to give advice on this page, (we would have no gossip if we did) but may we pass a suggestion | + | |
- | MARCH FLOWERS | + | Several of our Naval and Military lads have been visiting the Club room lately, the latest |
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+ | The Navy, represented | ||
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+ | It is not our place to give advice on this page, (we would have no gossip if we did) but may we pass a suggestion | ||
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+ | =====March Flowers.===== | ||
Ray Birt. | Ray Birt. | ||
- | "To me that meanest flower that grows, can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears" | + | |
- | Many of the so called flowers can now take their place among the aristocrats, The nasturtium once scorned, is now a real artists flower featuring in many a still life painting also the prolific wattles we see about us every day are apt to be overlooked. At the present time the Acacia Linofolia is in full bloom with its beautiful creamy balls of 'perfect flowers forming delicate and feathery sprays, It derives its name from its fine flax like leaves, It is particularly beautiful along the Era track from Maynards to the Jungle track, at this time of the year Persoonia Pinifolia (Pine Leaf Geebung). The Persooniats were named after C.H. Persoom a distinguiohed botanist. The Pinifolia variety usually grows from 8 to 10 ft, high with pine like foliage and yellow flowers which crowd together at the tops of the branches. The corolla | + | "To me that meanest flower that grows, can give\\ |
- | is erect and slightly hairy with 4 stamens attached to the middle of the deciduous petals, The short straight pistil does not ripen until tho petals | + | Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears" |
- | have fallen. The berry like fruits, when ripe are a purple colour and are often so crowded that they cause the branches to hang Vertically, | + | |
- | Punctatum (Hyacinth Orchid). The very attractive orchid has a robust fleshy stem - leafless/ but with sheathing bracts at the base often redish and | + | Many of the so called flowers can now take their place among the aristocrats. The nasturtium once scorned, is now a real artists flower featuring in many a still life painting also the prolific wattles we see about us every day are apt to be overlooked. At the present time the Acacia Linofolia is in full bloom with its beautiful creamy balls of perfect flowers forming delicate and feathery sprays. It derives its name from its fine flax like leaves. It is particularly beautiful along the Era track from Maynards to the Jungle track, at this time of the year Persoonia Pinifolia (Pine Leaf Geebung). The Persooniats were named after C.H. Persoom a distinguiohed botanist. The Pinifolia variety usually grows from 8 to 10 ft. high with pine like foliage and yellow flowers which crowd together at the tops of the branches. The corolla is erect and slightly hairy with 4 stamens attached to the middle of the deciduous petals. The short straight pistil does not ripen until the petals have fallen. The berry like fruits, when ripe are a purple colour and are often so crowded that they cause the branches to hang vertically. |
- | purple. Typical colour of the blooms are pink, blotched or spotted with | + | |
- | maroon, but very variable in this respect - the flowers may be maroon with pink spots, wholly red; wholly pink or almost mauve. The seloalst | + | Helichrysum Lucidum (Everlasting). From the Greek Helios the sun-Chrysos (gold) was named from the brilliant yellow colouring of the species which are popularly known as Everlastings from the never fading, often petal-like and shining membranous bracts of the involucre. The tubular florets are always yellow but the large bracts are white, yellow, brown or pink. The heads are large and usually with a semi-globular involucre from 1 to nearly 2 inches in diameter, the outer bracts being short and sessile and the inner gradually longer radiating and stalked. The numberous tubular florets are only half as long as the bracts and those in the outer row are thread like and have only a pistil. The united anthers have fine tails on the lower end and ripen before the pistil. The style grows up through the anther |
- | Helichrysum Lucidum (Everlasting). From the Greek Helios the sun-Chrysos (gold) was named from the brilliant yellow colouring of the species which are | + | |
- | popularly known as Everlastings from the never fading/ often petal-like | + | ---- |
- | and shining membranous bracts of the involacre. The tubular florets are always yellow but the large bracts are white, yellow, brown or pink. The heads are large and usually with a semi-globular involucre from 1 to nearly 2 inches in diameter, the outer bracts being short and sessile and the dnnor gradually longer radiating and stalked. The numberous tubular florets are only half as long as the bracts and those in the outer row are thread like and have only a pistil. The united anthers have fine tails on the lower end and ripen before the pistil. The style grows up throv7h t i *hev tube and pishes | + | |
- | A baldy old Blighter named Cotter As a lover grows hotter and hotter He said Such inspiration | + | A baldy old Blighter named Cotter\\ |
- | Evokes | + | As a lover grows hotter and hotter\\ |
- | I really must carry a blotters | + | He said "Such inspiration\\ |
- | MUSIC IN MELBOURNE | + | Evokes |
- | ,How often have,, you talked of a Symphony | + | I really must carry a blotter! |
- | Yesterday in Melbourne was.' | + | |
- | "Swan Lake" in the perfont | + | ---- |
- | During the openirg | + | |
- | playful | + | =====Music In Melbourne.===== |
- | yellow oak leaf fluttered quietly down, almost | + | |
- | muoie so quietly | + | How often have you talked of a Symphony |
- | As if arranged, at the Dance of the Four Swans, a duck with four young ' | + | |
- | The breeze brought the music a little nearer, and then a little further off, L. group of basket willows with their feet ir the lake 3oilayed | + | Yesterday in Melbourne was realisation. The lovely lawns around the lake were filled with people |
- | The music finished. A duck had moved in and Gompleted | + | |
- | F::).r the' | + | "Swan Lake" in the perfect |
- | Melbourne still has its sense of humour, for although the day was cool and dull, Thea sang joyously of "One Fine Day" Bob and Charlie | + | |
- | We w re all rather intrigued by the way the Conductors, mtlsio W'_17, Tire- vented | + | During the opening |
- | But what of the small dog that sTJent | + | |
- | All thE, while the scarlet Hibiscus were reflected in the lake and the amplifiers nestled in the oak and -oino trees, | + | A yellow oak leaf fluttered quietly down, almost |
- | This was the first of a series of Open Air Concerts to provide Music for the Pc epic by the Melbourne | + | |
- | co-op. of the Melbouirae | + | As if arranged, at the Dance of the Four Swans, a duck with four young paddled |
- | 10, | + | |
- | THE MOVEMENTS OF TET.,' SUPERIOR PL=TS | + | The breeze brought the music a little nearer, and then a little further off. A group of basket willows with their feet in the lake swayed |
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+ | The music finished. A duck had moved in and completed | ||
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+ | For the opening bars of Gounods | ||
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+ | Melbourne still has its sense of humour, for although the day was cool and dull, Thea sang joyously of "One Fine Day"; Bob and Charlie | ||
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+ | We were all rather intrigued by the way the Conductors | ||
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+ | But what of the small dog that spent most of his time removing | ||
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+ | All the while the scarlet Hibiscus were reflected in the lake and the amplifiers nestled in the oak and pine trees. | ||
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+ | This was the first of a series of Open Air Concerts to provide Music for the People | ||
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+ | =====The Movements Of The Superior Planets.===== | ||
by " | by " | ||
- | The planets are often known as the wanderers, because they are continually moving amongst the other stars. They move through a series of constellations known as the " | + | |
- | The planets which are further from the sun than we are known as the sul)erior | + | The planets are often known as the wanderers, because they are continually moving amongst the other stars. They move through a series of constellations known as the " |
- | of fixed stars, to be moving backwards. | + | |
- | The fixed stars are thousands, often millions of times further away than | + | The planets which are further from the sun than we are known as the superior |
- | the planets. After a year we will have come back to the same position, but the planets will have tbved on against the background of fimed stars. | + | |
- | PLANET PERIOD OF REVOLUTION SPEED IN ORBIT | + | The fixed stars are thousands, often millions of times further away than the planets. After a year we will have come back to the same position, but the planets will have moved on against the background of fixed stars. |
- | YEARS MILES 1)ER SEC. | + | |
- | EARTH 1,00 185 | + | |Planet|Period of revolution - years|Speed in orbit miles per sec.| |
- | MARS 1;88 15.0 | + | |Earth|1.00|18.5| |
- | JUPITER | + | |Mars|1.88|15.0| |
- | SATURN | + | |Jupiter|11.86|8.1| |
- | In the diagram below the relative distances of the | + | |Saturn|29.46|6.0| |
- | 7elanets | + | |
- | P Position of Saturn | + | In the diagram below the relative distances of the planets |
- | after 1 year | + | |
- | cC | + | [Diagram] |
- | Saturn | + | |
- | 444 , b | + | ---- |
- | 7:5:1r5 Earth | + | |
- | 0-upi -hoz, | + | =====The Blue Mountains National Park.===== |
- | 11, | + | |
- | TEE BLUE MOUNTAINS. NATIONAL PARK. | + | |
Aborea Australis | Aborea Australis | ||
- | Many will remember the scheme for a Blue Mountains National Park prepared by Myles Dunphy and the N,P.P.A.C, a long. time ago, | + | |
- | What has hay)ened | + | Many will remember the scheme for a Blue Mountains National Park prepared by Myles Dunphy and the N.P.P.A.C, a long time ago. |
- | Enquiry at the Lands De' | + | |
- | Early this year the Federation had a deputation about setting aside certain | + | What has happened |
- | to report about the matter and see about its relationship to the Blue Mountains National Park scheme, | + | |
- | We feel a little sorry for the surveyor who has to report, for the file | + | Enquiry at the Lands Department |
- | by this time is very very big, But for the rest of us all has happened for | + | |
- | the best. The Blte Mountains National Park has not been shelved. The ground was well prepared by Myles and the seed was sown by the N.P.P.A.C. but each time someone has come along and watered it, the plant has grown. Some day the seed will bear fruit, but strangers will reap the hciLrvest | + | Early this year the Federation had a deputation about setting aside certain |
- | probably | + | |
- | _SNAKE BITE | + | We feel a little sorry for the surveyor who has to report, for the file by this time is very very big. But for the rest of us all has happened for the best. The Blue Mountains National Park has not been shelved. The ground was well prepared by Myles and the seed was sown by the N.P.P.A.C. but each time someone has come along and watered it, the plant has grown. Some day the seed will bear fruit, but strangers will reap the harvest |
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+ | ====Snake Bite.==== | ||
"Angry Reader" | "Angry Reader" | ||
- | "Angry Reader" | ||
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- | the comic strips a little while ago, (This must refer to star diagrams - Ed.) Now he is branching into, or onto, | ||
- | We have no Idea which angry reader wrote this scurrilous note. But we have assured him that the only remedy is to write something himself. | ||
- | AT OUR 'OWN MEETING | + | "Angry Reader" |
- | Four neW members were welcomed into the Club! They were Dorothy Brigden, Sheila Garrad, Colin Lloyd and Malcolm McGregor. | + | |
+ | We have no idea which angry reader wrote this scurrilous note. But we have assured him that the only remedy is to write something himself. | ||
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+ | =====At Our Own Meeting.===== | ||
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+ | Four new members were welcomed into the Club. They were Dorothy Brigden, Sheila Garrad, Colin Lloyd and Malcolm McGregor. | ||
We learnt that Enid and Alan Rigby are to be congratulated on the birth of a son. | We learnt that Enid and Alan Rigby are to be congratulated on the birth of a son. | ||
- | Renee Brown read a letter of thanks from Miss Rivett of the Children' | + | |
- | Marie Byles said that,arrangements had already been made for Hostels | + | Renee Brown read a letter of thanks from Miss Rivett of the Children' |
- | in Cambewarra-,Robertson area, which would enable Hostel users to do a number of good yalks in that area. | + | |
- | FEDERATION NOTES | + | Marie Byles said that arrangements had already been made for Hostels in Cambewarra-Robertson area, which would enable Hostel users to do a number of good walks in that area. |
- | After a discussion with Tom Herberti. | + | |
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+ | =====Federation Notes.===== | ||
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+ | After a discussion with Tom Herbert, | ||
Conservation Bureau' | Conservation Bureau' | ||
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The motion for the alteration of the Constitution by reducing the quorum from 7 to 5 delegates was lost. | The motion for the alteration of the Constitution by reducing the quorum from 7 to 5 delegates was lost. | ||
- | Miss Dorothy Song's resignation , for medical reasons, from the position of Honorary Secretary, was accepted with regret and appreciation expressed for all Miss Song's work. | + | |
- | Miss Ruth Schleicher asked the Federation for support in the protest against the proi)osod | + | Miss Dorothy Song's resignation, |
- | The whole Blue Mountains National Park scheme submitted some years ago by the N.P.P.A.C. and the Federation has been revived, as a first step, the authbrities | + | |
- | Mr. Arnold Rae, of the C4M4W: | + | Miss Ruth Schleicher asked the Federation for support in the protest against the proposod |
- | A willowy woman called Dunk | + | |
- | Was found in a terrible funk | + | The whole Blue Mountains National Park scheme submitted some years ago by the N.P.P.A.C. and the Federation has been revived, as a first step; the authorities |
- | And the cause of dismay | + | |
- | Was the fact, so they say | + | Mr. Arnold Rae, of the C.M.W. |
- | That her last pair of oo: | + | |
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+ | A willowy woman called Dunk\\ | ||
+ | Was found in a terrible funk\\ | ||
+ | And the cause of dismay\\ | ||
+ | Was the fact, so they say\\ | ||
+ | That her last pair of coupons | ||
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13. | 13. | ||
DATES OF IMPORTANCE | DATES OF IMPORTANCE |
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