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- | A Monthly Bulletin devoted to matters of interest to The Sydney Bushwalkers, | + | |
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- | No. 117 SEPTINBER, 1944 Price 6d. | + | |
- | Editor: C. Kinsella 1):? | + | |
- | Asst. B. Jolley At,, Alice Wyborn | + | |
- | Bue.Manager: | + | |
- | CONTZNTS | + | |
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- | Letters from Lade * Federation Notes | + | |
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- | IS. | + | |
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- | Index It | + | |
- | Bushwalking Babies | + | |
- | Why Do We Walk? | + | |
- | II 11 11 | + | |
- | Did This Happen To You? 1. Les Harpur | + | |
- | Sale of Native Flowers | + | |
- | Books for the Services | + | |
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- | October Walks & poem | + | |
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- | NATIVE POET NANCY CATO | + | |
- | Each magpie sits on his own post | + | |
- | And sings his song, and does not care What Others sing - the starling' | + | |
- | But is he right hot to rejoice In the alien blackbird' | + | |
- | Liking the mournful Indian dove; The goldfinch has a pretty wing | + | |
- | And there' | + | |
- | But, "Give me a crimdon bird to chatter Bush-silence with hid pal-rot-clatter, | + | |
- | Sings the magilie. "Woods amd dales Are proper haunts for nightingale; | + | |
- | BUSHWALKING BABIES | + | |
- | Marie B. Byles. | + | |
- | Bushwalleing, | + | |
- | it ic shill the gr=';, | + | |
- | Down through the years of childhood the tramps stand out as the highlights, and this, even though they were often only along the beliks of the M.,:reey canal on Saturday afternoon whre We watched the slowmoving bargee te.17Ang the cotton up to Manchester, or stood on the railway bridge waiting with bated breath and beating hearta until a train came underneath and gave us a " | + | |
- | What is a SprinE_1 | + | |
- | But the cream of the tramps was in the Peak District with its grassy hills and caves where perhaps Crab, the Caveman, lived. On the top of one of those hills was a little spring that gushed out of its peaty source like a watertap. My Father had a collapsable brass drinking cup, and brass | + | |
- | is perhaps the most evillytasting material ever invented, but filled with | + | |
- | water from that spring it was a goblet of the gods. That spring set my | + | |
- | standard in springs for ever after. Years later when I vas shown a bit of damp earth in the Warrumbungle Mountains, and told it was a " | + | |
- | just did not believe it. Springs have got to spout out like that one in the.Peak District or they are not springs! | + | |
- | Another thrilling tramp was one frosty New Year's Day when my Father took Us to Roaterne Mere, a lake owned by a wealthy family, which did not permit members of the proletariat like us to approach its shores. My Father7 who was both an ardent Christian and an ardent socialist sat us | + | |
- | up on a style overlooking the lake and made us say after him, "The eerth is the Lord16 and the fullness thereof Cursed he be that addeth field to field Down with the blasted Lendowners!" | + | |
- | St. Boniface Down in the Isle of White that my fate was settled, for we came down "by an original descent which' would make Auntie Clive green with envy". Surely it was then that the lust for virgin peaks was sown, a lust which has driven me into most uncomfortable situations in New Zealand and China. | + | |
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- | A to | + | |
- | Then tile tops of the | + | |
- | montaTh!:3 i7:05:7ad of- in tic c. 7a7leys, It wa,7 osecially as | + | |
- | no or i ei Ccj h9.1.7 heard_ of i.,7-Arvo My.7athe.J2 tramped | + | |
- | frying to buy a ax-t6 'iYhr, we w. ro ih,? Blue c taa n vry winter | + | |
- | We 171-2r, rioGiitiocn Tr was a lict " | + | |
- | bnard staon, a "j t wri had a1way du -k-Jd off | + | |
- | before retuTncd hcin e, but apflarenta7 no cne cecirr wr-.1ked beauty | + | |
- | . e-ptsi anyhow, no c.,e e:Es-pt t-, | + | |
- | walked. 7,o t"r1.= merely to defile then! by paLnting namp on ' | + | |
- | As for "r)7z igthal de:: | + | |
- | we were talkin One c,f thee 11E down to the 'Torst Ardr, | + | |
- | back in clie day, When 7ou remember that is noT called th,.? 7-1.1e Gum | + | |
- | Forest end that there wa-i then no track to it 13,2t cl-n2ziing5 you will agi-c:e that it was not a bad effort for my younger brother who could not have been morc thcca nine- | + | |
- | - But tink. 711aoe r -t iche in " | + | |
- | s o unt Irwin, where | + | |
- | we wanted very baly to find a way down to the Wallongambi River., e had brought som--: " | + | |
- | with the braF of that ev: | + | |
- | down. only to find the or, | + | |
- | canyon I don't kno7 what : | + | |
- | suppose it retured sorrowfully home. with us, - | + | |
- | 1.--?; - r | + | |
- | It was my Fathe7 who tc,Tk mr my firFt cam ning trip. It was to Mount Hay, and thereafter 1 crap;ged cut ursuspeoting University friends on | + | |
- | camping tri7e e7ex-,y, 1 oli6ay B7, | + | |
- | pastime in those day; there wer lurking behind every bush, and | + | |
- | the hop of an 1.nnocent kangaroo FELF in-cs' | + | |
- | in the party, -:arri.,:=d conop1:; | + | |
- | to stare a liTtle r:7@ivers and long tkirt and. ': | + | |
- | draped about the Deison must have looked a umas1;.el. If we were so. | + | |
- | frightened of our f e.Ww-ita';' | + | |
- | When I look 1-.571.ok on the highlights of my childhood, I feel very sorry for the bop.; snd gi Ic who _do not have Tiarents.Loeeo them bushwalking, | + | |
- | WHO 'DO WE WALK | + | ==== September, 1944 ==== |
- | Well sir, thatls | + | |
- | Again, it s 11 very well to say 7.E= wala or our health | + | A Monthly Bulletin devoted to matters of interest to The Sydney Bushwalkers, |
- | -ready to queson statemel:: | + | |
- | Some of wil you that we walk to 3e the country, But how little | + | No. 117\\ Price 6d. |
- | of it w,D realI3 | + | |
- | t(, | + | |Editor:|C. Kinsella| |
- | we seem happy enough to be out together; but what about those wives, and sweethearts, | + | |Asst.|B. Jolley| |
- | enough to find out that their company can be even more enjoyable than our own. - | + | |Bus. Manager: |
- | No sir! It' | + | |Production: |
- | " | + | |Asst.|Alice Wyborn| |
- | are speaking the sweat will be pouring down their foreheads, and they' | + | |Sales & Subs.|Betty Dicknson| |
- | "It' | + | |
- | and even as they utter the nonsensical, | + | ^Contents^^^ |
- | and frying their sausages (arid perhaps cursing at the rain) in the same old, dreary, monotonous, routinish style which they' | + | |Index||1| |
- | " | + | |Bushwalking Babies|Marie B. Byles|2| |
- | It's nice to feel the wind in our faces," It's a joy to hear the birds sing." | + | |Why Do We Walk?||4| |
- | We walkers have been saying these things so often that we're actually beginning to believe them: | + | |Did This Happen To You?|Les Harpur|5| |
- | But why walk to get these questionable pleasuras? Your own back lawn, or the nearest public gardens, will provide the first. A cycle Tide into a | + | |Sale of Native Flowers||6| |
- | stiff northerly along St.Kilda Road, will provide the second. And anybody with a canary in a cage, or a parrot, or a white cockatoo, can have the third turned on whenever they wish, just like getting water out of a tap, | + | |Books for the Services||6| |
- | No sir! I cannot tell you why we walk I'm sure none of us cant but please don't delay me any longer. I'm in a devil of a hurry, I want to get home to pack my rueksack for the weekend walk, I wouldn' | + | |Gossip||7| |
+ | |October Walks & poem||8| | ||
+ | |Letters from Lads||9| | ||
+ | |Federation Notes||12| | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Native Poet ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | by Nancy Cato | ||
+ | |||
+ | Each magpie sits on his own post\\ And sings his song, and does not care\\ What Others sing - the starling's croak,\\ This lark that trills in the blue air,\\ But is he right not to rejoice\\ In the alien blackbird' | ||
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+ | But, "Give me a crimdon bird to chatter\\ Bush-silence with his parrot-clatter, | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Bushwalking Babies ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | by Marie B. Byles | ||
+ | |||
+ | Bushwalking, | ||
+ | |||
+ | Down through the years of childhood the tramps stand out as the highlights, and this, even though they were often only along the banks of the Marsey canal on Saturday afternoon where we watched the slow moving barges taking the cotton up to Manchester, or stood on the railway bridge waiting with bated breath and beating hearts until a train came underneath and gave us a " | ||
+ | |||
+ | __What is a Spring?__ | ||
+ | |||
+ | But the cream of the tramps was in the Peak District with its grassy hills and caves where perhaps Crab, the Caveman, lived. On the top of one of those hills was a little spring that gushed out of its peaty source like a water-tap. My Father had a collapsible brass drinking cup, and brass is perhaps the most evilly-tasting material ever invented, but filled with water from that spring it was a goblet of the gods. That spring set my | ||
+ | standard in springs for ever after. Years later when I was shown a bit of damp earth in the Warrumbungle Mountains, and told it was a " | ||
+ | |||
+ | Another thrilling tramp was one frosty New Year's Day when my Father took us to Rosterne Mere, a lake owned by a wealthy family, which did not permit members of the proletariat like us to approach its shores. My Father who was both an ardent Christian and an ardent socialist sat us up on a style overlooking the lake and made us say after him, "The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof - Cursed he be that addeth field to field Down with the blasted land-owners!" | ||
+ | |||
+ | __And then to Australia__ | ||
+ | |||
+ | Then we came out to Australia where people lived on the tops of the mountains instead of in the valleys. | ||
+ | |||
+ | But the place richest in " | ||
+ | |||
+ | __Revolvers and Villians__ | ||
+ | |||
+ | It was my father who took me on my first camping trip. It was to Mount Hay, and thereafter I dragged out unsuspecting University friends on camping trips every holiday weekend. Bush-walking was a very dangerous pastime in those days; there were villains lurking behind every bush, and the hop of an innocent kangaroo was interpreted as the step of a prospective robber. | ||
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+ | When I look back on the highlights of my childhood, I feel very sorry for the boys and girls who do not have parents to take them bushwalking, | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==== Why do we walk? ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | by The Editor, " | ||
+ | |||
+ | Well sir, that' | ||
+ | but we are ready to question this statement | ||
+ | |||
+ | Some of us will tell you that we walk to see the country. But how little of it we really | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | A few of us think we walk for the enjoyable companionship. Admittedly we seem happy enough to be out together; but what about those wives, and sweethearts, | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | "It gets you away from life's dull routine", | ||
+ | and frying their sausages (and perhaps cursing at the rain) in the same old, dreary, monotonous, routinish style which they' | ||
+ | |||
+ | " | ||
+ | |||
+ | We walkers have been saying these things so often that we're actually beginning to believe them! | ||
+ | |||
+ | But why walk to get these questionable pleasuras? Your own back lawn, or the nearest public gardens, will provide the first. A cycle ride into a stiff northerly along St. Kilda Road, will provide the second. | ||
+ | |||
+ | No sir! I cannot tell you why we walk - I'm sure none of us can; but please don't delay me any longer. | ||
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- | / | + | ==== Did this happen to you? ==== |
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- | SALE OF NATIVE FLOWERS | + | Illustration by Les Harpur |
- | Ray Birt. | + | |
- | Roaders | + | |
- | finitestjz Zo17.cwing tha deputation to the Minister for Local Government | + | ==== Sale of Native Flowers ==== |
- | o TyN)cent thpetitian akinF for the ,; | + | |
- | However, | + | by Ray Birt |
- | Vii-' | + | |
- | atop the sale for thetime | + | Readers |
- | BOOKS1 | + | |
- | PENGUINS | + | However, |
- | DIGESTS!, | + | |
- | MAGAZINES | + | With this in mind we wrote to the leading stores which sell wild flowers and asked if they would be public |
- | The Services Committee needs more and more BOOKS, PAPERS and MAGAZINES to :send to the lads and lasses. Their sun7lies | + | |
- | What can YOU do to help ?. | + | ==== Books for the Services ==== |
- | Bring what you can into the Club, or leave with PADDY PALLIN., | + | |
- | 7 | + | BOOKS! |
- | GOSSIP | + | |
- | do wish the Butlers- (Ira and Dot, Rhona.7 tant do anything about it) would stay "imt" long enough for us to say with ,: | + | The Services Committee needs more and more BOOKS, PAPERS and MAGAZINES to send to the lads and lasses. Their supplies |
- | are going to ho fora few -days, We her tha.4; | + | |
- | cautIously1 | + | What can YOU do to help? |
- | Dots who appears very amused when we show surprise and try to i onoeal | + | |
- | Dot- tells us that Ira has ffeparted overseae? | + | Bring what you can into the Club, or leave with PADDY PALLIN. |
- | short notice, left our Dot with a beautiful but unfinished | + | |
- | This garment was Dots idea of wha-, the well dresced genT.z!hould | + | |
- | After a round of visite? | + | ==== Gossip ==== |
- | Mr, and Mr, Pay Beat allowed us to look at their : | + | |
- | Dunc, also made an appearance in the clubroom | + | We do wish the Butlers (Ira and Dot, - Rhona can' |
- | We heard of a kind hearted shark the other day, A small -party of Bushwalkers, | + | |
- | Greenaore | + | Dot tells us that Ira has departed overseas, |
- | Tuggie has done 7c,, | + | |
- | OCTn3ER WALKS | + | After a round of visits, |
- | _- | + | |
- | 6th, 7th, 8th MT, VICTORIA-GROSE RIVER-BLUE GUM FOREST(-.7t\T-1) C-FYON-DUCKFEATF, | + | Mr. and Mrs. Ray Bean allowed us to look at their lovely |
- | 4. *..6.,. | + | |
- | Dollg,McGuire will lead this walk and says that the Bluegums have lost none of their aor)eal, especially at this time of year A search may be made to presarve ary Laplirc,s. That great fissure, the Gra' | + | Dunc also made an appearance in the clubroom |
- | 14th, 15th ROBFRTS07-YECLA-CAR3INGTON FALLS-JAM=00-KIAMA, | + | |
- | ha e alraFs | + | We heard of a kind hearted shark the other day. |
- | 2lut; 22nd, PARRI,MATTA-GLENORIE-DUAL-GLEN0r,IE. | + | |
- | Hare is a new area for most walkers, even thounit | + | Tuggie has done her last Test walk. |
- | onr eity That does not mean that fruit and cream will be on hand for momly?rii (-2 the party, our Social Secretary John Woods, is taking this walk, but there L s alwa; | + | |
- | 28th7 29th, F7D7PATION RE-UNION | + | ==== October Walks ==== |
- | The walk this week-end to the Wild Dog Mountains has been cancelled, so e' | + | |
- | s;-j_rit,. The site and other particulars will be made known as soon as they | + | ^6th, 7th, 8th^Mt. Victoria |
- | have been decided, | + | |Doug McGuire will lead this walk and says that the Bluegums have lost none of their appeal, especially at this time of year. |
- | ARE YOU COMING | + | ^14th, 15th^Robertson |
- | THE WALKER'S BLEAT | + | |Yeola has always |
- | You hear it not while at your work, | + | ^2lst; 22nd^Parramatta |
- | Now in the busy street; | + | |Here is a new area for most walkers, even though it is so close to Sydney. It consists of some of the richest orchard and dairying land near our city. That does not mean that fruit and cream will be on hand for members of the party, our Social Secretary John Woods is taking this walk, but there is always |
- | But when the walkers rove about | + | ^28th, 29th^Federation Re-Union^ |
- | There comes a plaintive bleat, | + | |The walk this week-end to the Wild Dog Mountains has been cancelled, so everyone |
- | In rain and summers heat, | + | |
- | And little heeds the anguished souls | + | |
- | Who cry; When do we eat?" | + | ==== The Walker's Bleat ==== |
- | Oh,many of our walking friends | + | |
- | Thus hunger on their feet, | + | by F.A. Blackman in the " |
- | And know that ease for it depends on This WHEN DO WE EAT"? | + | |
- | F,,A. BLACKMAN | + | You hear it not while at your work,\\ Now in the busy street;\\ But when the walkers rove about\\ |
- | in the " | + | There comes a plaintive bleat,\\ The careful leader stalks ahead\\ In rain and summers heat,\\ And little heeds the anguished souls\\ Who cry: "When do we eat?"\\ Oh, many of our walking friends\\ Thus hunger on their feet,\\ And know that ease for it depends\\ on This "WHEN DO WE EAT"? |
- | (7) | + | |
- | ' | + | ==== Letters from the Lads ==== |
- | Sinc& | + | |
- | the Walking fraternity;-7 | + | Since our last list we have received letters from the following members of the Walking fraternity:- |
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- | Alen Williams | + | |Rob Morrison|Vic Aubourg| |
- | John Green Ls Dous | + | |Alan Williams|Dick Smith| |
- | Peter Page Frank Frt, | + | |John Green|Les Douglas| |
- | Doric, | + | |Peter Page|Frank Freeguard| |
- | Grfion | + | |Doris |
- | DORIS ALIDYT | + | |Gordon |
- | , | + | |
- | ania na7e been e n unpj_easan , | + | __Doris Allden - 12/6/44__ |
- | h07-F., I th(r; | + | |
- | T tn1 c 1s: | + | Last Friday week I ended up in Sick Bay with dengue and have been in since. |
- | 1/KAGh ha;Iga-.1 ia Z.71,f1c2, H.everth rL or j-c ra. for all 7,11:5' | + | |
- | c:n the : | + | Our Sick Bay is quite new so I expect there is no harm in sampling |
- | irk 2,74- i.. I expt 17her,:: | + | |
- | WhrinI ' | + | Apart from this little episode |
- | with _t,s c::_EF; shell lo];ize ia11i cream. coi ng an blue ',Dmd covs, and the most c h71, | + | |
- | A nice place to recit...Rth | + | Have been enjoying a spot of social life as well. We had our first dance in our recreational hall and it was most successful. |
- | Lprt thic eDioodz, | + | |
- | and erjeytbLr, | + | __Gordon Mannell - England__ |
- | there much to do, Hove been moving on to some new work, the break was a pity, | + | |
- | Eavi-: | + | I have just returned |
- | 10 1WI0 and 10 WAAFS to come as well as and RA.TP - they h.Dve very hcor, | + | |
- | Ono thin and nnother | + | __Bill Burke - 26/7/44__ |
- | decided nevertheless I couldn' | + | |
- | up :. x haaptc4d hut still on my feet, The week preously tho Petty Ciff:7s | + | Home sweet home once more and as yet, don't know whether |
- | enrta ivad a party of WEANS at a picnic over at the It woe =a good day. ,SwinminF; | + | |
- | cricket and eating. The cricket match was gnor3. | + | The station, the train, a hospital one - a blast of the whistle and I said farewell to that fair town. I must return to the Downs one day, a beautiful |
- | mos tly I ff3ar, to the ingenious methods of the scorer who : | + | |
- | ab1, | + | A few days at G.D.D. awaiting draft during |
- | mixng ciit3ide | + | |
- | GORDON YANliELL ENGLANT, | + | Another station, another train and we were off again, not forgetting of course the customary |
- | a very enjoyable leave amiocc | + | |
- | the guest, together with another member of my cTevi, of n Mrs. Locke who lives in the charming little village of Dollar situated in the Devon valley in Clackmannanshire. Our hostess placed bikes at our disposal to enable us to | + | Lonely paddocks, lonely homesteads, lonely |
- | view as much of surrounding countryside as possible in the short time avai2 Rle?.e, we certainly | + | |
- | Cilepbell iia the Glen of Sorrow, It reminded me very much of soTo cf ou Llue Yeuntal:e 04: | + | |
- | wiAh lambsglea z.l ng. We wero reluotant | + | |
- | DI= perpn 2r_r, L4 vr, | + | |
- | wleethe i to bo clad or co-rry. I:ve bad life too easy the past five months and that's not good for the mnrale | + | |
- | Angel is still leee the jungles of NOG, and just when I thought | + | |
- | it emo en the un grac" | + | |
- | classifying them as my friends made some disparaging remarks, in fact some | + | |
- | were plain nasty, but, when they arrived at the station looking. weary and much the worse for wear, I could do nought but forgive them, | + | |
- | The station, the train, a hospital one. blast of the whistle and I said farewell to that fair town, I must return to the Downs one day, a lecatltiful | + | |
- | A few days at G,D,D, awaiting draft durinp; | + | |
- | grew careless and stepped in front of a slug, You may remember me writing about how we all hopped out for a cup of tea one day, well Sykes was the | + | |
- | lenlucky | + | |
- | Another station, another train ana we were oil' | + | |
- | 11, | + | |
- | wa5n'i; too pru. to take the floor the f-Irst 6ay | + | |
- | (31.1 to a leaktng | + | |
- | the h o1;.1..c3'ad_..tqays- ".10 | + | |
- | again a7(1.:;:; | + | |
- | and 'drank )che-only tWo bad beers on the maret bcer | + | |
- | Piled out of windc,.Ts-and doorr; | + | |
- | no ono threatened to thrcW any of thri n.T,C;S c-A-'f the c-..;atic11_ t" | + | |
- | k' | + | |
- | t' | + | |
- | day r17eamed cf othar a.rasScs | + | |
- | , Lenr)ly73.ad:lock-s, aorely homesterld!: | + | |
- | ac we go by, Cries _of fetters | + | |
with a thicket tc-a, Shades. of thr.--.M.E1 0As you | with a thicket tc-a, Shades. of thr.--.M.E1 0As you | ||
when it (,cmcs to, | when it (,cmcs to, | ||
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VOI.OMMe | VOI.OMMe | ||
- | FEDERATION RE' | + | |
- | On Tuesday 18th July, 1944 the N,S.W. Federation of Bueh Walking Clubs held its Twelfth Annual Meeting. | + | |
+ | ==== Federation Report ==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | On Tuesday 18th July, 1944 the N.S.W. Federation of Bush Walking Clubs held its Twelfth Annual Meeting. | ||
The Affiliation Fee was again fixed: at 5/- for each 25 members (7r& | The Affiliation Fee was again fixed: at 5/- for each 25 members (7r& | ||
those grades net bound to pey 1 memberchip fees) and the Subscription | those grades net bound to pey 1 memberchip fees) and the Subscription |
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