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It was so long ago. Surely the fathers of these oldest here\\ | It was so long ago. Surely the fathers of these oldest here\\ | ||
Were children when I lived. I built a house\\ | Were children when I lived. I built a house\\ | ||
- | And made a fence and ploughed a field. To-day\ | + | And made a fence and ploughed a field. To-day\\ |
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+ | =====Fruit Picking At Mildura and Holiday In Tasmania.===== | ||
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+ | Dot English. | ||
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+ | Having finished my allotted span at the Munitions Laboratory, and as there was an urgent call being made just at that time for volunteers to bring in the grape harvest at Mildura, and some thousands of pickers were required if the harvest was not to be lost, I entered my name with the Harvest Labour Bureau and was right smartly and without further delay allotted to Redcliffs, up in the Murray River Irrigation area, 350 miles from Melbourne. | ||
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+ | The Jacobs household consisted of Dad Jacobs and Mum and two charming and talented daughters 18 and 20 years of age. I was boarded at their house, two other young lasses were boarded next door, a young married couple and brother put up a tent in the vineyard, and several men had shacks down by the river. We worked from 8 a.m. to 5.15 p.m. and the sun shone strongly all day on the bright red earth and I sat under the vines and pickd purple currants for a week at the rate of 100 or so buckets a day (the bucket is really a flat tin which holds abour 20 to 25 lbs. of fruit) at £1 per hundred, and the next week golden sultanas at the rate of 200 tins a day. Before we got enough men on the job to do the heavy lifting I assisted Pa with the loading. Daughter Barbara drove the tractor towing a long wide dray, and up and down the vine rows we dashed, Pa and I running on opposite sides and stacking the filled tins on the dray. Then we'd lumber off with our load to the racks, the tractor and its loosely attached purple hindquarters looking like a not-too-well-organized huge insect. Here we'd empty the fruit out onto a wide flat tray, and Pa with a smart sudden jerk would spread the grapes out over the wire mesh racks. Then we'd load the empties back on the dray and Barbara would run us down the unpicked rows while Pa and I threw out bundles of tins at regular intervals under the vines. By the time we'd loaded and tipped and re-stacked and hurled the tins forth again - several hundred tins up to 25 lbs. weight each - we sure knew we'd been working. I was there about 3 weeks, at the end of which time I banked a cheque for £20 and sang the praises of piece-work which allowed an energetic person like myself to reap the reward of extra work. | ||
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+ | Returning to Melbourne I found that a party from the Munitions Lab. with whom I had been discussing the possibility of taking our annual holidays in Tasmania, had finalised arrangements, | ||
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+ | The Tourist Bureau had told us that there was no chance of getting trans[ort to the Cradle Mountain Reserve (our destination) so we took bikes with us. The crossing is by night, and we arrived early next morning. With 50 lb. packs balanced on the handlebars we made a pretty rough journey over terrific 5th grade roads, through first a hail storm which later developed into a snowstorm - and us with no gloves! O dearo dearo dear! We took the best part of two days to do what the service car does in an afternoon, and when we were only a couple of miles from our destination (what irony!) we met the service car and the driver told us that of __course__ it was still running, what nonsense! and he didn't know what was biting the Tourist Bureau people. | ||
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+ | We eventually reached Waldheim, the guest house at the Northern end of the Reserve, and thawed out in front of a big log fire. A large stew and a warm bed and life once more assumed a rosy hue. We awoke to find all the mountains and highlands covered white (and this __March__, and __Australia__! - incredible!). The huts are spaced through the Reserve at 1-day stages (anything from 8 to 15 miles) and the track goes through rugged mountainous country, peaks and lakes and innumerable tarns, swampy button-grass plains, birch forests and pine forests filled with thousands of wallabies and wombats and almost __millions__ of possums at night. This is the most marvellous mountainous spot in Australia. I had no idea we could turn on such New Zealand-like scenery. We walked 150 miles and climbed 10 first-class peaks in as many days. They are only 6 thousand footers, but one forgets they are not so high as the Mt. Cook giants and enjoys them just as much. We had snow the first day, and then a fortnight of perfect sunny days, so once again the gods smiled on me. And once again, just to keep up the old tradition, we managed to get ourselves benighted while completing a successful traverse of four 5,000 ft. peaks. One of the party was quite new to mountaineering and so somewhat slow on the rough stuff, so the final burst of speed which would have just got us back to the hut by dark had to be foregone and we spent a pretty cold night, first sliding and crawling and falling down through a mountainside of dwarf beech (or birch) in the dark, then through dense almost impenetrable wet forest along the valley floor until they called a halt, so I bedded the party down on a spot of dry ground and covered them with dry dead palm leaves, then crawled into the pile myself and shivered and dozed and woke and slapped ourselves and each other, and changed our positions and sang all the songs we knew, beating a tattoo meanwhile on the beck of whoever happened to be in front of us, while the river gurgled and rushed and crept through the dark tangle of trees and vines, and the glow-worms turned on their cold ineffectual fires in all the crannies and crevasses in the moss. | ||
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+ | An hour or so before drawn I'd had quite enough of inactivity (I'd always much prefer to go on through pitch dark grizley ways rather than indulge in spineless inaction), so I voted that we get going again and warm up. I might say we had set out in nothing but shorts and shirts and boots, and crawling through the dwarf beech had torn our clothing to ribbons, so for all practical purposes we might just as well be naked. Anyhow, not to prolong the agony any further, at last the dawn arrived, and was just as welcome and miraculous as the time on Mt. Cook after picking our way down the thousand feet of rock face and negotiating the maze of crevasses in the dark. Half an hour more saw us at the hut. We put on billies of water and had hot baths and a big stew, than slept till mid-day and felt not a whit the worse for the night' | ||
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+ | =====Stranger Than Fiction.===== | ||
- | FRUIT PIC.T.C.ING AT MILDURA and HOLLeAY IN TASMANIA Dot English. | ||
- | Having finished my allotted span at the Munitions Laboratory, and as there was an urgent call being made just at that time for volunteers to | ||
- | bring in the grape harvest at laTdura, and some thousands of pickers wore required if the harvest was not to be lost, I entered my name with the He_rv:st Labour Bureau and was right smartly and without further delay allotted to Redcliffs, up in the Murray River Irrigation area, 350 miles from Melbourne. | ||
- | A special " | ||
- | was a strange and motley collection of Pickers in every type of garb imaginable, mostly fairly juvenile, and all in great s-)irits 7. just like a holiday train, | ||
- | boys and girls calling out to each other, laughter and songs ,nd ukeleyles(? | ||
- | metropolis. Men sat at tables along th) street outside the station calling 0, out name 6 and allotting numbers, with queues of people lined in sieerny rowsrp | ||
- | up and down the stret. Growers pushed thsir way through the milling throng | ||
- | uttering unintelligible calls, and railway hands and officials dircted enquiring pickers to Mr. This or Mr. That fast vanishing in the seething mob. | ||
- | However the organization was pretty good, and by the time I had located a Station master, who iodated Mr. Jacobs (my " | ||
- | seemed to be emerging from chaos and various cars and lorries etc. were | ||
- | moving off with their full tally of pickers collected. | ||
- | The Jacobs household consisted of Dad Jacobs and Mum and two charming and talented daughters 18 and 20 years of age. I was boarded at th ir 11PLIM | ||
- | two other young lasses were boarded next door, a young married couple and brother put up a tent in the vineyard, and several men had shacks J!own | ||
- | by the river. We worked from 8 a m. to 5.15 p m. and the sun shone stron:Jly | ||
- | all day on the bright red earth and I sat under the vines aftd pickd purule | ||
- | currants for a week at the rate of 100 or so buckets e, day (the bucket is | ||
- | really a flat tin which holds abour 20 to 25 lbs. of fruit) at1-:1 per | ||
- | huedred, and the next we-)k golden sultanas at the rate of 200 tins a day. :fore we got enough non on the job to do the heavy lifting I ascisted Pa | ||
- | 17:1th the loading. Daughter Barbara drove the tractor towing a long wide | ||
- | dray l and up and down the vine rows we dashed, Pt and I running on o-7:posite | ||
- | sides and stacking the filled tins on the dray. Then we'd lumber off with | ||
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- | .our 'load to the racks, the tractor and its loosely attached purple hind- | ||
- | ' quertees looking like a not-too-well-organized huge insect. Here we'd empty the fruit out onto a wide flat tray, and Pa with a smart sudden jerk would spread the grapes out over the wire mesh racks. Then we'd load the emties back on the dray and Bakbara would run us down the unpicked rows while Pa and I thraw ol;t bundles of tins at regular intervals under the vines, By the ti/T1,.? I0,1ad and tipped and re-stacked and hurled the tinc forth | ||
- | again Idrad tins up to 25 lbs4 weight each - we sure knew ' | ||
- | been worXi u:, I iac7 there about 3 weeks, at the end of which time I banked | ||
- | a cheq-a=?, f_20cad s:_ng the praises of piece-work which allow d an ener- | ||
- | getic zyc,:.if to reap the reward of extra work, | ||
- | to Melbourne I found that a party from the M7Initir., Lab. | ||
- | wit. } i dir_cuseing the possibility of taking In- o 1olidays | ||
- | in , ii nalised arrangements, | ||
- | a 1:ujilag provisions for a fortnight' | ||
- | The Tourist Bureau had told us that there was no chance of poi:tjng transliort to the Cradle Mountain Reserve (our destination) so we tr-,ok bjkes us, The crossing is by night, and we arrived early next morning, With | ||
- | 50 21o, eelcLes balanced on the handlebars we made a pretty rough journey over | ||
- | teerAfie !:-,th grade roads, thr,-ugh first a hail storm which later developed into a snowstorm - and u with no gloves! 0 dearo dearo dean l We took the 11; part of two days to do what the service car does in an afternoon, ana wheu viz: were only a couple of miles from our destination (what irony)) we mEA the service car and the driver told us that of course it was still running, what nonseusel and he didn't know what was biting the Tourist Bureau people. | ||
- | We eventually reached Waldheim, the guest house at the Northern end | ||
- | of the Reserve, and thawed out in front of a big log fire. A large stew and a warm bed and life once more assumed a rosy hue. We awoke to find all | ||
- | the mountains and highlands covered white (and this March, and A..us_tralial - incredible1). The huts are spaced through the Reserve at 1-day stages (anything from 8 to 15 miles) and the track goes through rugged mountainous country, peaks and lakes and innumerable tarns, swampy button-grass plains, birch forests and pine forests filled with thousands of wallabies and wombats and lroost millions of possums at night. This is the most marvellous mountail-et: | ||
- | th: -r:rT-,1 day, and then a fortnight of perfect sunny days, so once again the | ||
- | gods smiled on me. And once again, just to keep up the old trc.!1: | ||
- | moillring and e, somewhat slow on the rough stuff, so the final burst | ||
- | of v!hich would have just got us back to the hut by dirk had to be foregoTe and we spent a pretty cold night, first sliding and crawling and falling down through a mountainside of dr-orf beech (or birch) in the dark, then through dense almost impenetrable wet forest along th valley floor | ||
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- | until they called a halt, so I bedded the party down on a spot of dry ground and covered them with dry dead palm leaves, then crawled into the pile myself and shivered and dozed and woke and slapped ourselves and each other, and changed our positions and sang all the songs we knew, beating a tattoo meanwhile on the beck of whoever happened to be in front of us, while the river gurgLed and rushed and crept through the dark tangle of trees and vines, and the gLow-werms turned on their cold ineffectual fires in all the crannies and creyassec in the moss, | ||
- | An hour or so before drawn I'd had quite enough of inactivity (I'd always much prefer to go on through -pitch dark grizley ways rather than indulge in spine:ess inaction), so I voted that we get going again and warm up. I might say we had set out in nothing but shorts and shirts and boots, and crawling through the dwarf beech had torn our clothing to rjbbons, so for all practical purposes we might just as well be naked. Anyhow, not to prolong the agony any further, at last the dawn arrived, and was just as welcome and miraculous as the time on Mt. Cook after picking our way down the thousand feet of rock face and negotiating the maze of crevasses in the dark. Half an hour mdre saw us at the hut. We put on billies of water and had hot baths and a big stew, than slept till mid-day and felt not a whit the worse for the night' | ||
- | and was drifting in a most disconcerting manner around in a circle, Then a light loomed out of the darkness, and our boat ran up a signal and I discovered to my relief that we were just entering Port Phillip Bay, It gave | ||
- | one a strange feeling to think such things were going on in mid-ocean., | ||
- | STRANGER THAN FICTION | ||
by " | by " | ||
- | Rationing and lack of various commodities have caused us inconvenience and irritation but should we be forbidden to discuss and argue life would be for some appalling. And quite unrecognisable. To prove this let me take | + | |
- | a concr,te exam-)1e. There will, of tdurse, be nothing concrete about it - it will resemble more a jelly on the top of Mouin in a heat wave. However, you understand my meaning I hope so that we may begin with a feeling of having our feet firmly planted on the ground before we enter this Lunar Park of giddiness and vertigo. | + | Rationing and lack of various commodities have caused us inconvenience and irritation but should we be forbidden to discuss and argue life would be for some appalling. And quite unrecognisable. To prove this let me take a concrete example. There will, of course, be nothing concrete about it - it will resemble more a jelly on the top of Mouin in a heat wave. However, you understand my meaning I hope so that we may begin with a feeling of having our feet firmly planted on the ground before we enter this Lunar Park of giddiness and vertigo. |
- | For those who can read between the lines there are several lessons to be learnt including | + | |
- | (1) (a) Democracy will always get THERE (b) and poscibly back-again.. | + | For those who can read between the lines there are several lessons to be learnt including |
- | (2) We are therefore fighting for the RITHT THING. | + | |
+ | (1) (a) Democracy will always get __there__ | ||
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+ | (2) We are therefore fighting for the __right thing__. | ||
(4) All's well that ends well. | (4) All's well that ends well. | ||
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It would be impolitic for me to disclose (3) - the scene of the events to be described - as they were too much like a rehearsal for the Second Front. In addition to the above there is some interesting news for those who think that in a democracy the majority rules and its verdict is final. | It would be impolitic for me to disclose (3) - the scene of the events to be described - as they were too much like a rehearsal for the Second Front. In addition to the above there is some interesting news for those who think that in a democracy the majority rules and its verdict is final. | ||
- | One would imagine that Bushwalkers wanting to go walking would just go; but not that would be too easy for people looking for the SIM]:' | + | |
- | enviyorment | + | One would imagine that Bushwalkers wanting to go walking would just go; but not that would be too easy for people looking for the __simple life__. Besides, how could one appreciate the __simple life__ |
- | that the birds supplied a symphony of song" unless one had a yelling, | + | |
- | Now it would have been too, too sim-ole | + | Now it would have been too, too simple |
- | to fit into the seven-seater | + | |
- | don't you think? We sense a battle. A few preliminary rounds among the " | + | Unfortunately the room stewards are trying to enforce the Early Closing Act so a decision seems imperative. Vive Democracy, we shall vote! All those in favour of trip " |
- | that nip; | + | |
- | bacilli in the blood stream is circulating. They are engaged in fierce | + | But, yearning after the original venture, everyone cherishes resentment in his heart and, as we collect our hats, the whole structure is undermined, at the door one begins |
- | controversy. Now and then an interested observer will hover near, judge the position, perhaps have a skirmish and then retire for long range scrutiny. | + | |
- | Maps are waving in the air, maps are being draped on walls and are being drawn in space. Suggestions are made, pounced upon, ridiculed and torn to shreds. At length everyone agrees that trip " | + | Sunday - day of rest - quite true, perhaps, some time before dawn. Up hill and down dale every conceivable |
- | Unfortunately the room stewards are trying to enforce the Early Closing Act so a decision seems imperative. Vive Democracy, we shall votes All those in favour of trip " | + | |
- | But, yearning after the original venture, everyone cherishes resentment in his heart and, as we collect our hats, the whole structure is undermined, at the door one be; | + | By lunch, triumph! oddsboddikins! eureks! |
- | Sunday - day of rest - quite true, perhaps, some time before dawn. | + | |
- | Up hill and down dale every conceivable | + | It is now all plain sailing - only the food to be arranged - who likes this and that, what shall be eaten when and by whom, who will carry what and what will be bought and by whom. Where trip " |
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- | 0 and contributed one just does it by a combination of permutations and the human ingenuity is ataggering. | + | |
- | By lunch, triumph oddsboddikins | + | |
- | We shall follow plan Axb if Y is suitable, B and C willing and -orovided | + | |
- | It is now all plain sailing - only the food to be arranged - who likes this and that, what shall be eaten when and by whom, who will carry what and what will be bought and by whom. Where trip " | + | |
Do you now think that every detail was irrevocably settled and that the trip was performed with the closest co-operation? | Do you now think that every detail was irrevocably settled and that the trip was performed with the closest co-operation? | ||
- | Poor innooent 2 Re:T.d next monthts thrilling fluctuations, | ||
- | 501YETTIING FOR NOTHING | ||
- | Anyone who is interested in the stars may pick out the constellations described in previous issues of the magazine by referring to the same month of the year before. The stars are in the same place at the same time every year and will continue to be in the s-me place atthe same time as long as your magazine hangs together and can be road, | ||
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- | MORE GOSSIP | ||
- | The Social Committee -put on a vary nice dance for us on Friday the 13th June in the Club room; Memb ers were asked to come dressed in the sleeping wear they affected when cacdDinz out Fortunately, | ||
- | No doubt many of us would rather not be seen outside a sleeping bag in the | ||
- | assortment of clothes that we feel is very necessary to our: | ||
- | An exceedingly well turrnod log was cl ir.,layed to great advantage by Grace Edgocombe who chose a Pair of Gents Natty under2ants Rag Alder' | ||
- | Walt.Disney must h;;.vo seen Ray ::irby camping out some time, and based | ||
- | his famous Mickey Louse on th;_. rrnectuole thus dis-Dlayed. He (Ray) still loked cold in siDite of his long woollen stpcl ings and two quite inadequate safety tins, and seemed to ne.:d. a little more packing. Berlei' | ||
- | We felt quit6.Concern: | ||
- | Arthur Gilroy, timing,it very nicely made, a late entrance very effectively, | ||
- | and another beautiful ' | ||
- | We hope th, | ||
- | "I wonder How I Look When I'm Asleep", | ||
- | think, don't it. | ||
- | Someone mentioned to us th, oth,,r nijlt that quite a few male members are sporting growths on th,ir 1.11) -r lips. We inv, | ||
- | It is rumoured of one of newer brir?.,s that she has th, domesticity cr ze so badly that her husband 'has to drag her into the club on Friday nights. She then sits in corners, dreaming no doubt of nutmeg and disturs. | ||
- | Betty Pryde droed in to tell us that she is not in Adelaide as we said. We are rather unfortunate with Betty, we always station her in the wrong places. It is her move now, we hay,e. done our best for her. | ||
- | Another junior Bushwalkor to s to the' | ||
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- | LAters were received this uonth from the following members on the Services Committee' | ||
- | P. Huntley. Tucker George Archer (P.O.W. Germany) | ||
- | J. W. Edwards Rory Lofts | ||
- | Bruce Simpson Jack Parkinson | ||
- | Peter Merle W. Spedding | ||
- | Bill Burke Les Douglas | ||
- | Betty Isaacs. Rita Stanford. | ||
- | RORY LOFTS.(u-, Queensland way). Dear S.BeWs. I was very pleased to receive the May issue of the S.B.. today. Its good to get a breath of the old fellowship of the bush which seems to come with each issue. Although my whereabouts are all shrouded in mystery, I can talk of some things without fear of the razor blade. I find this one of the most interesting places I have been in from a walker' | ||
- | I introduced our shas to the sround sheet method of crossing streams one day, but only one chap as gano to risk it, the others preferred to cross the river where they thought they could wade, the result was the three of them got washed off their feet wetting tell their gear including rifle, glasses and compass and the rest got wet to the waist while the other chap and I crosses easily and had dry equipment when we (sot. there.. So much for doubting Thomas, we bush- walkers can teach the army lots. | ||
- | sped a lot of my time teaching ma7)Ding and thought the article by " | ||
- | LES DOUGhf1S, Port Moresby. I was more than pleased to get your letter - pleased | ||
- | alse eo eee such a healthy list of war-like spikits from the club and know that | ||
- | to it; they': | ||
- | duleAne,o v:ILo., It would be marvellous to meet some of the gang - so if they know they' | ||
- | My work ire here is very interesting - although naturally I can't tell you | ||
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- | meell about it - exce-)t that it keeps aue in the open all day mostly toseing on L,ee ruffled - but often beautiful - surface of Moresby Bay - hence I'm greedually achieving a dark mahogany tan about the face, arms and knees - Wal will be disappointed to know that as yet I've nnt tried out the fishing as my gear hasn't arrived - but I will - and then I'll be able to spin some " | ||
- | that got away. I've Llchioved one tri-e into the hills - Roura Falls on the Lologi River naturally we had only a few hours to do the trip - so bagged a truck - | ||
- | four of us - and shoved big cane arm chairs in the back and away - we created much comment and 1,ughter from the tough A.I.F. whom we passed en route but the comfort we achieved made u-.9 for the thoys'; | ||
- | NOT coming back after the war.. | ||
- | ffiLL__22, | ||
- | i:air eft-Sr of Sydney occasioned. Sufficient to say that there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. That is, until the train started to move. The cobber is a bit 2.1e myself; hasn't a care in the world and being travel minded after three years of wandering the prospect of ipe :ring over the next hill caused our spirits to soar. The first day paseed ri;ht o:?edily, all gorging on the plentiful su-rly of food that had been showered u_,on us. My only regret was that as best part of the trip was done by night I was unable to view the North Coast. Managed to snotch a brief but illuminating half day in that "busy little frontier toan". We all Woke | ||
- | up the following morning ecer to renew our acquaintanceship but also we had to | ||
- | place our glad rags at the bottom of the pack and move on to greener fields. quite | ||
- | a pretty little place; much nicer than Sydney I thought, but perhaps I was influence by the proximity of the surrounding bushlands Twenty minutes, by tram, from the heart of the city to a cool shady, clear run-ling stream is, to my mind, ideal, apart from the general aype-rance of cleanliness and the congenial surroundings, | ||
- | the people impressed rn as much more friendly than those down south. Apparently | ||
- | it is quite the acce-)ted thing to have a yarn with a fellow tram traveller. I had | ||
- | quite a pleasant chat with the lass sitiing alongside me. Thought perhaps that I was lucky but the others all had a similar ex-oerience. Imagine the look if one triad to start a conversation in a Sydney tram, especially if the person concerned was a pretty little mi of I missed out on a spot more leave, byt my usual luck held when we reached the station; three of us managed to reserve a first class sleeping compartment to ourselves, for the next three nights we absolutely wallowed an luzury. The miles Eli:reed by over bridges, through culverts,by swamp and foreet an 'lain the train rattled on. Cattle browsed contentedly on the :elain;an 000eicee:]. h-rd diifting along under the care of a sleepy looking drover, | ||
- | rip. -1rig green of the cane fields, grey 3.reen ,einea-eple plantations, | ||
- | THY NOT CUT DOWN TES? | ||
- | By Arbores Australis, | ||
- | Of course bushwalkers never do cut down trees for the obvious reason that they would be ostracised from bushwalking society if they did. But why this strong feeling in the bush-walking world against little boys with t: | ||
- | If we have ever thoueht about it the first reason that has flashed, | ||
- | a high price for the tree, but he refused it, preferring beauty tb-mOiley.. Perhaps the world misnt be a happier -place today if more t)eople ha& | ||
- | beauty to the mad scramble for material wealth, which, whatever it, | ||
- | does not bring hapPiness. | ||
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- | In the same class as the preSeTvion of beauty is the -pTe' | ||
- | . Why preserve the fauna and flora? eBecause like beauty it is_one of -those spiritual values without which mankind would probably perish. | ||
- | . However, Iyneed not enter into a. Phil6sophic1 discussion withebushwalkers- who are alreadre-tlian' | ||
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- | When we. cut trees along river banks and on steep hill-slopeseyp-remove the | ||
- | tangle of little roots ancl the undergrowth (which will grow onlye.Unglir trees) that hold the soil in position and also hold the rain like a sponi, This means that when the rains come they wash the soil away causing bad soil erosion; and the water itself also runs off rapidly for it is no longer held back by the sponge of the tiny roots. In country cleared on the steep slopes and along river | ||
- | ' banks, you will find that the streams and rivers tend to ba higher during heavy rains and lower in dry periods than in country that has not been cleared. And the object of the recently instituted Soil Erosion Board is to prevent tree-cutting in such places. 11,-.vetyou ever stopped to consider why Middle Harbour is so much | ||
- | less muddy than L.ne Cove; The answer is that the headwaters of Middle Harbour are still bush clad. The headwaters of Lane Cove are very largely cultivated and | ||
- | therefore cleared:. That muddiness is a sign of soil erosion, and of rapidly drying up streamlets. Have you noticed how a dependable streamlet of ten years. ago (like that of North Era) has ceased to run except after rain, Think b,7,ck,and | ||
- | remember that bush fires have swept through the catchment area very often or. | ||
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- | properly regrown, and the e2onge of the roots which held the moisture that | ||
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- | effect as bush fires, cutcle and crowds of people. | ||
- | But this s aemateriali_sti c,:agei and there are plenty of materialistic | + | Poor innooent! Read next month' |
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- | So much for why you should not as a rule cut down tres. Of course there are 0 always exceptions. But prima facie a tree should not be cut, and if a person | + | ---- |
- | Next month we shall diocuss | + | |
- | FED,ERATIu NOTES | + | ====Something For Nothing.==== |
- | The pro-eosal for reservation of K.7, | + | |
- | revived by the Federation and is being looked | + | |
- | The National Fitness Council has dro: | + | Anyone who is interested in the stars may pick out the constellations described in previous issues of the magazine by referring to the same month of the year before. The stars are in the same place at the same time every year and will continue to be in the same place at the same time as long as your magazine hangs together and can be read. |
- | It was decided that the rental of the Era lands wae too high for the Federation to take the risk of a lease without abandoning its prineipais | + | |
- | The letter to th: DelDt. of Mines about the shale mine 13, | + | " |
- | brought a reDly with a -elan of about three mining leases | + | |
- | Links and the First Narrow Neck. It was decided to w2ite o the Katoemba | + | ---- |
- | The Recreational Areas Committee of the Natienal | + | |
- | A building is bein , | + | =====More Gossip.===== |
- | within 50 yards of the hostel; and no camDing | + | |
- | that the road be closed | + | The Social Committee put on a vary nice dance for us on Friday the 13th June in the Club room. Members were asked to come dressed in the sleeping wear they affected when camping out. Fortunately, |
- | about canning | + | |
- | camping area at Little Marley. | + | An exceedingly well turned leg was displayed to great advantage by Grace Edgecombe who chose a pair of Gents Natty underpants Rag Alder' |
- | The ex-eenditure | + | |
- | are being made about leasing Block 7 at North North Era and also about land at the | + | Walt. Disney must have seen Ray Kirkby camping out some time, and based his famous Mickey Mouse on the spectacle thus displayed. He (Ray) still looked cold in spite of his long woollen stockings and two quite inadequate safety pins, and seemed to need a little more packing. Berlei' |
- | junction of Long Angle Gully and Fitzgerald Creek. | + | |
- | AT OUROWN LIE . | + | We felt quite concerned for the girl who constricted her nether limbs with a cardigan. May she never develop somnambulistic tendencies, at least we hope we may be there when she does. |
- | Two new members, | + | |
- | After some discussion it was resolved that the Club dise7eroved | + | Arthur Gilroy, timing it very nicely made a late entrance very effectively, |
- | on camping at Little Marley(see Federation notes). The Presid_nt | + | |
- | Martin | + | We hope the committee was pleased with the large attendance. The orchestra was most generous and played everything except the one thing that seemed to us to be most appropriate for the occassion, or perhaps they had never heard of it, "I wonder How I Look When I'm Asleep" |
- | features. It was eventually | + | |
- | with the rock escarpment forming the Narrow Neck Peninsula. Phyl White,owin3 to the illness of her fathertendred | + | ---- |
- | SOCIAL :', | + | |
- | JULY 7th 7.45 p.-11. Skating night at the Glaciarium | + | Someone mentioned to us the other night that quite a few male members are sporting growths on their upper lips. We investigated and it was so, some of course are more prolific than others. Is it a secret sign? |
- | JULY 23rd 0 | + | |
- | o p m. | + | ---- |
- | Iicture | + | |
- | JULY 30th 3 10.m. Clubroom Dance: Novelties and | + | It is rumoured of one of newer brides that she has the domesticity craze so badly that her husband has to drag her into the club on Friday nights. She then sits in corners, dreaming no doubt of nutmeg and dusters. |
- | Su2-.)r 11_1.ncincE | + | |
- | AUGUST2Oth 0 | + | ---- |
- | O D,ra. "Old Tals" retold again by | + | |
- | Yer::r irs.Aldur icGregor, with an "Z1_1 star" | + | Betty Pryde dropped in to tell us that she is not in Adelaide as we said. We are rather unfortunate with Betty, we always station her in the wrong places. It is her move now, we have. done our best for her. |
- | AUGUST27th | + | |
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- | 0 -2 - | + | |
- | Clubroom ?arty. | + | Another junior Bushwalkor to add to the long list. Mrs. Mitchell, to us, Muriel Hall, has a daughter. |
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+ | |||
+ | =====Letters From The Lads And Lasses.===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Letters were received | ||
+ | |||
+ | R. Huntley Tucker; George Archer (P.O.W. Germany); J. W. Edwards; Rory Lofts; Bruce Simpson; Jack Parkinson; Peter Allen; W. Spedding; Bill Burke; Les Douglas; Betty Isaacs; Rita Stanford. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===Rory Lofts:=== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Up Queensland way. Dear S.B.W.s. I was very pleased to receive the May issue of the S.B.W. today. Its good to get a breath of the old fellowship of the bush which seems to come with each issue. Although my whereabouts are all shrouded in mystery, I can talk of some things without fear of the razor blade. I find this one of the most interesting places I have been in from a walker' | ||
+ | |||
+ | I introduced our chaps to the ground sheet method of crossing streams one day, but only one chap was game to risk it, the others preferred to cross the river where they thought they could wade, the result was the three of them got washed off their feet wetting all their gear including rifle, glasses and compass and the rest got wet to the waist while the other chap and I crossed easily and had dry equipment when we got there. So much for doubting Thomas, we bushwalkers can teach the army lots. | ||
+ | |||
+ | I spend a lot of my time teaching mapping and thought the article by " | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===Les Douglas:=== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Port Moresby. I was more than pleased to get your letter - pleased also to see such a healthy list of war-like spirits from the club and know that to date they' | ||
+ | |||
+ | My work up here is very interesting - although naturally I can't tell you much about it - except that it keeps me in the open all day - mostly tossing on one ruffled - but often beautiful - surface of Moresby Bay - hence I'm gradually achieving a dark mahogany tan about the face, arms and knees - Wal will be disappointed to know that as yet I've not tried out the fishing as my gear hasn't arrived - but I will - and then I'll be able to spin some " | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===Bill Burke:=== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Up Queensland way. I won't enlarge on the heartbreak that leaving the fair city of Sydney occasioned. Sufficient to say that there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. That is, until the train started to move. The cobber is a bit like myself; hasn't a care in the world and being travel minded after three years of wandering the prospect of peering over the next hill caused our spirits to soar. The first day paseed right speedily, all gorging on the plentiful supply of food that had been showered upon us. My only regret was that as best part of the trip was done by night I was unable to view the North Coast. Managed to snatch a brief but illuminating half day in that "busy little frontier town". We all woke up the following morning eager to renew our acquaintanceship but also we had to place our glad rags at the bottom of the pack and move on to greener fields. quite a pretty little place; much nicer than Sydney I thought, but perhaps I was influence by the proximity of the surrounding bushlands. Twenty minutes, by tram, from the heart of the city to a cool shady, clear running stream is, to my mind, ideal, apart from the general appearance of cleanliness and the congenial surroundings, | ||
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+ | |||
+ | =====Why Not Cut Down Trees.===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | By Arbores Australis. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Of course bushwalkers never do cut down trees for the obvious reason that they would be ostracised from bushwalking society if they did. But why this strong feeling in the bush-walking world against little boys with tomahawks who slash the young saplings and rejoice at the glorious crash if they can bring a bigger tree down with their small hands? Why our horror because a letter in the paper tells us that a timber mill is going into a forest at mount Wilson? | ||
+ | |||
+ | If we have ever thought about it the first reason that has flashed through our minds as to why we should not cut trees, is just that the trees are lovely and we don't want to see bhe beauty taken away from our land. And that alone would be ample reason for not cutting trees. Too often in this materialistic age we forget that beauty is an end in itself, and in some cases far more important than material wealth. I once read of a poor peasant in China who had a beautiful maple tree growing neer his cottage. The maple provides a wood very suitable for making wooden bowls (I think it is). A merchant offered him a high price for the tree, but he refused it, preferring beauty to money. Perhaps the world might be a happier place today if more people had preferrerd beauty to the mad scramble for material wealth, which, whatever it brings, does not bring happiness. | ||
+ | |||
+ | In the same class as the preservation of beauty is the preservation of the unique fauna and flora of our land, a fauna and flora found nowhere else in the world, and which rapidly disappears once the forest protection is removed. Why preserve the fauna and flora? Because like beauty it is one of those spiritual values without which mankind would probably perish. | ||
+ | |||
+ | However, I need not enter into a philosophical discussion with bushwalkers who are already more than convinced. | ||
+ | |||
+ | But this __is__ a materialistic age, and there are plenty of materialistic | ||
+ | |||
+ | When we cut trees along river banks and on steep hill-slopes we remove the tangle of little roots and the undergrowth (which will grow only under trees) that hold the soil in position and also hold the rain like a sponge. This means that when the rains come they wash the soil away causing bad soil erosion; and the water itself also runs off rapidly for it is no longer held back by the sponge of the tiny roots. In country cleared on the steep slopes and along river banks, you will find that the streams and rivers tend to be higher during heavy rains and lower in dry periods than in country that has not been cleared. And the object of the recently instituted Soil Erosion Board is to prevent tree-cutting in such places. Have you ever stopped to consider why Middle Harbour is so much less muddy than Lane Cove. The answer is that the headwaters of Middle Harbour are still bush clad. The headwaters of Lane Cove are very largely cultivated and therefore cleared. That muddiness is a sign of soil erosion, and of rapidly drying up streamlets. Have you noticed how a dependable streamlet of ten years ago (like that of North Era) has ceased to run except after rain. Think back and remember that bush fires have swept through the catchment area very often or cattle or man have trampled it down. This means that the undergrowth has never properly regrown, and the sponge of the roots which held the moisture that formed your streamlet, has gone. The cutting down of trees has exactly the same effect as bush fires, cattle and crowds of people. | ||
+ | |||
+ | So much for why you should not as a rule cut down tres. Of course there are always exceptions. But prima facie a tree should not be cut, and if a person | ||
+ | |||
+ | Next month we shall discuss | ||
+ | |||
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+ | |||
+ | =====Federation Notes.===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | The proposal | ||
+ | |||
+ | The National Fitness Council has dropped | ||
+ | |||
+ | It was decided that the rental of the Era lands was too high for the Federation to take the risk of a lease without abandoning its principals | ||
+ | |||
+ | The letter to the Dept. of Mines about the shale mine below Diamond Falls brought a reply with a plan of about three mining leases | ||
+ | |||
+ | The Recreational Areas Committee of the National | ||
+ | |||
+ | A building is being erected | ||
+ | |||
+ | The expenditure | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====At Our Own Meeting.===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Two new members, | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Social Events For Your Calendar.===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | |July 7th, 7.45 p.m.|Skating night at the Glaciarium| | ||
+ | |July 23rd, 8 p.m.|Lecture | ||
+ | |July 30th, 8 p.m.|Clubroom Dance: Novelties and Supper | ||
+ | |August 2Oth, 8 p.m.|"Old Tals" retold again by Messrs. Alder & McGregor, with an "all star" | ||
+ | |August 27th, 8 p.m.|Clubroom Party.| | ||
+ | |||
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- | Regret these rules, We try to be democratic and ensure the greatest good for the greatest number. | ||
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- | Camp Gear for Walkers | ||
- | 'Phone B3101. 327 George Street SYDNEY | ||
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+ | Paddy Pallin. Camp Gear for Walkers, | ||
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+ | 'Phone B3101. 327 George Street, Sydney. | ||
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