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- | **THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER**\\ | + | ====== |
- | A Monthly Bulletin devoted to matters of interest to The Sydney Bushwalkers, | + | A Monthly Bulletin devoted to matters of interest to The Sydney Bushwalkers, |
- | No.128, AUGUST 1945 Price 6d, | + | No.128, AUGUST 1945 Price 6d\\ |
- | + | |Editor:|Ray Kirkby| | |
- | Editor: Ray Kirkby\\ | + | |Production:|Yvonne Rolfe| |
- | Production: Yvonne Rolfe\\ | + | |Assist. Editor;|Dorothy Drigden| |
- | Assist. Editor; Dorothy Drigden\\ | + | |Assistant:|Kath. McKay| |
- | Assistant: Kath. McKay\\ | + | |Sales & Subs:|Jean Harvey.| |
- | Sales & Subs: Jean Harvey.\\ | + | |
**CONTENTS**\\ | **CONTENTS**\\ | ||
- | Via Broken Cart Creek, by Ruby Payne-Scott\\ | + | |Via Broken Cart Creek|by Ruby Payne-Scott| |
- | Data and Dopa\\ | + | |Data and Dopa|| |
- | Message from Goodman' | + | |Message from Goodman' |
- | Dear " | + | |Dear " |
- | Agony Column, by " | + | |Agony Column|by " |
- | Cultivating our Native Flora, by " | + | |Cultivating our Native Flora|by " |
- | Have you ever heard of " | + | |Backyard Bushwalking|| |
- | **WONDER**\\ | + | |
- | J. LeGay Brereton.\\ | + | ===== WONDER |
+ | J. LeGay Brereton. | ||
What is the name of that bird that sings\\ | What is the name of that bird that sings\\ | ||
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The limits God hath set\\ | The limits God hath set\\ | ||
And wonder all night long.\\ | And wonder all night long.\\ | ||
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+ | **" | ||
- | **" | ||
Few will not have heard of the request made to the Club to vacate the rooms at 5, Hamilton Street where for about twelve years it has met on Friday nights, This unexpected necessity comes at a time when accommodation in the city is very difficult to obtain but the immediate reaction to the request is to range the corridors of one's mind and memory and the streets of the city in an attempt to find a roof for the Club, even though it be a temporary one. Without a centre where members may meet the Club must be useless and nerveless like a man with a broken spine. But a question rears its head wearing a disconcerting look of dissent - is it worthwhile? | Few will not have heard of the request made to the Club to vacate the rooms at 5, Hamilton Street where for about twelve years it has met on Friday nights, This unexpected necessity comes at a time when accommodation in the city is very difficult to obtain but the immediate reaction to the request is to range the corridors of one's mind and memory and the streets of the city in an attempt to find a roof for the Club, even though it be a temporary one. Without a centre where members may meet the Club must be useless and nerveless like a man with a broken spine. But a question rears its head wearing a disconcerting look of dissent - is it worthwhile? | ||
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That the molten thoughts and aspirations which fired the earliest enthusiasts should harden into uninspiring slag is no new phenomenon: | That the molten thoughts and aspirations which fired the earliest enthusiasts should harden into uninspiring slag is no new phenomenon: | ||
- | "//For each age is a dream that is dying, Or cne that is coming to birth.//" | + | "//For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth.//" |
Perhaps it is our misfortune that we are witnesses of a Club in its death throes; if so, is it worth the effort of attempting to nurse it through a difficult convalescence to restored health? Lack of co-operation and selfishness are a cancer which grows with alarming speed until even the spirit of those people most blessed with their opposites is sapped. | Perhaps it is our misfortune that we are witnesses of a Club in its death throes; if so, is it worth the effort of attempting to nurse it through a difficult convalescence to restored health? Lack of co-operation and selfishness are a cancer which grows with alarming speed until even the spirit of those people most blessed with their opposites is sapped. | ||
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"// | "// | ||
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- | **VIA BROKEN CART CREEK**\\ | + | ===== VIA BROKEN CART CREEK ===== |
- | Ruby Payne-Scott.\\ | + | Ruby Payne-Scott. |
A public holiday in the middle of the week, a job just finished at work, the promise of snow in the morning air when a note from our head office arrived ordering me to take some of my accumulated leave! Bill thought the P.M.G. might be able to struggle along without him for three days and they, plus the aforementioned holiday and a weekend, would make six - one and a bit for travelling and four and a bit for walking. Our objective was Canberra to Tumut. Obviously we had no time to go astray on the tops, as is so easy in that country, so, after conferring with Maurie Berry, we decided to try to get down Broken Cart Creek, which is reputed to have once had a track along it down which machinery was taken to a big gold mine at its junction with the Goobarragandra. | A public holiday in the middle of the week, a job just finished at work, the promise of snow in the morning air when a note from our head office arrived ordering me to take some of my accumulated leave! Bill thought the P.M.G. might be able to struggle along without him for three days and they, plus the aforementioned holiday and a weekend, would make six - one and a bit for travelling and four and a bit for walking. Our objective was Canberra to Tumut. Obviously we had no time to go astray on the tops, as is so easy in that country, so, after conferring with Maurie Berry, we decided to try to get down Broken Cart Creek, which is reputed to have once had a track along it down which machinery was taken to a big gold mine at its junction with the Goobarragandra. | ||
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Foam patterns in fleecy white colour?\\// | Foam patterns in fleecy white colour?\\// | ||
A.E. | A.E. | ||
+ | \\ | ||
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+ | ===== DATA AND DOPA ===== | ||
- | **DATA AND DOPA**\\ | ||
When we record the fact that we recently saw a photo of Johnny Woods' taking doing its best to brighten a Second Class dog-box, we are not being nasty, Perhaps the selfsame department was once a royal kennell. | When we record the fact that we recently saw a photo of Johnny Woods' taking doing its best to brighten a Second Class dog-box, we are not being nasty, Perhaps the selfsame department was once a royal kennell. | ||
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In "The Sun" of 27th July last " | In "The Sun" of 27th July last " | ||
+ | \\ | ||
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+ | ===== DEAR " | ||
+ | by LAC [Leading Aircraftman] Ken Taylor | ||
- | **DEAR " | ||
This letter will be speeding to you shortly from somewhere along the North West Coast of Borneo my present whereabouts. AS it is I partook in a recent invasion with Australian forces in this area, we have now been in occupation for some time experiencing front line activity amongst the enemy. No doubt my descriptions of the invasion, the story of Japanese aerial attacks and resisting breakthroughs by Jap marines would rake interesting reading but I'm more concerned in describing my impressions of this strange country with its manifold freaks of nature and wild ruggedness. | This letter will be speeding to you shortly from somewhere along the North West Coast of Borneo my present whereabouts. AS it is I partook in a recent invasion with Australian forces in this area, we have now been in occupation for some time experiencing front line activity amongst the enemy. No doubt my descriptions of the invasion, the story of Japanese aerial attacks and resisting breakthroughs by Jap marines would rake interesting reading but I'm more concerned in describing my impressions of this strange country with its manifold freaks of nature and wild ruggedness. | ||
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Your old "// | Your old "// | ||
KEN TAYLOR | KEN TAYLOR | ||
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**//IF, WHEN YOU READ THIS MAGAZINE, THE CLUB HAS NOT A HOME LET US KNOW YOUR IDEAS.//** | **//IF, WHEN YOU READ THIS MAGAZINE, THE CLUB HAS NOT A HOME LET US KNOW YOUR IDEAS.//** | ||
+ | \\ | ||
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+ | ===== AGONY COLUMN by " | ||
- | **AGONY COLUMN by " | ||
I once advertised in the papers for Walkers. I had done everything I could think of to find some congenial company but almost without result. Suddenly the idea of advertising popped into my head and then I wondered why it had not occurred to me before because for months past I had been reading the " | I once advertised in the papers for Walkers. I had done everything I could think of to find some congenial company but almost without result. Suddenly the idea of advertising popped into my head and then I wondered why it had not occurred to me before because for months past I had been reading the " | ||
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A few weeks before I had arrived at this particular " | A few weeks before I had arrived at this particular " | ||
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+ | ===== CULTIVATING OUR NATIVE FLORA ===== | ||
+ | //A Visit to the Forestry Commission' | ||
+ | by Arbores Australis | ||
- | **CULTIVATING OUR NATIVE FLORA**\\ | ||
- | A Visit to the Forestry Commission' | ||
- | by Arbores Australjs, | ||
There is no sign-post on the main highway where the winding road leads down to the Forestry Commission' | There is no sign-post on the main highway where the winding road leads down to the Forestry Commission' | ||
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Anyhow, street-tree-friends, | Anyhow, street-tree-friends, | ||
+ | \\ | ||
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+ | ===== BACKYARD BUSHWALKING ===== | ||
- | **BACKYARD BUSHWALKING**\\ | ||
In the bush there is no winter. It reflects more truly the essential Australian climate than cultivated conventional gardens with their alien plants. These give an impression for a few brief months of resting, except for the exuberant flowering Peaches and plums which don their party frocks to greet a spring which is yet some months away. The wildlings of the bush (like experienced walkers) know better than to rest while the going is good. After a succession of dry winters they welcome the moist conditions now prevailing and all but a few plants are putting out new shoots and donning new leaves. | In the bush there is no winter. It reflects more truly the essential Australian climate than cultivated conventional gardens with their alien plants. These give an impression for a few brief months of resting, except for the exuberant flowering Peaches and plums which don their party frocks to greet a spring which is yet some months away. The wildlings of the bush (like experienced walkers) know better than to rest while the going is good. After a succession of dry winters they welcome the moist conditions now prevailing and all but a few plants are putting out new shoots and donning new leaves. | ||
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So it may be winter by the calendar but in the bush the annual flower show has begun, Casuarinas are still russet red, banksia brushes glow with sombre fire, wattles are in bloom (weeks early but not as good as usual). On the ground boronias eriostemons, | So it may be winter by the calendar but in the bush the annual flower show has begun, Casuarinas are still russet red, banksia brushes glow with sombre fire, wattles are in bloom (weeks early but not as good as usual). On the ground boronias eriostemons, | ||
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