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 By special arrangement with the National Art Gallery, we print a famous painting of the Official Party arriving at Cowan for the Official Walk on a recent Saturday arvo: By special arrangement with the National Art Gallery, we print a famous painting of the Official Party arriving at Cowan for the Official Walk on a recent Saturday arvo:
  
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-"NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN" +=====Night On Bald Mountain.===== 
-By PROLIX  + 
-(with apologies to Moussorgsky) +By Prolix (with apologies to Moussorgsky) 
-Central Station, 1,30 Saturday, gloomy, cold and with fine rain drizzling down, found my gogd,friend Antilix and self making a last minute decision. "Galong Creek should look good after this rain", and sundry other such urging remarks won the day and two tickets were purchased for Katoomba. + 
-Penrith slid by, and still m iserable outside. Nepean River presented a frightening spectacle of angry swirling _waters yellowWith its unnatural load of man-wasted soil ad debris 4. tearing at the banks in its fury to reach the sea and leaving a deep fringe of sand high on the banks. Glenbrook +Central Station, 1.30 p.m. Saturday, gloomy, cold and with fine rain drizzling down, found my good friend Antilix and self making a last minute decision. "Galong Creek should look good after this rain", and sundry other such urging remarks won the day and two tickets were purchased for Katoomba. 
-Creek had suffered-seVerely from the recentrains and was scarred by land- + 
-slides and strewn with rocks and bouldersi many tons of which it had disgorgei into the Nepean effectively distorting its flow and eating into the apposite bank. Never had we seen it so high. +Penrith slid by, and still miserable outside. Nepean River presented a frightening spectacle of angry swirling waters - yellow with its unnatural load of man-wasted soil and debris - tearing at the banks in its fury to reach the sea and leaving a deep fringe of sand high on the banks. Glenbrook Creek had suffered severely from the recent rains and was scarred by landslides and strewn with rocks and boulders, many tons of which it had disgorged into the Nepean effectively distorting its flow and eating into the opposite bank. Never had we seen it so high. 
-We spoke as two minute voiccd in the 'wilderness aS_we'compared the + 
-present devastation with what might have been h8:d:'-aur forefathers shownthe +We spoke as two minute voices in the wilderness as we compared the present devastation with what might have been had our forefathers shown the foresight which is now all too necessary if we are to "stop the rot". 
-foresight which is now all too necesSary:if40=arettei'"stop the rot". + 
-The slow upward grind eventually found us -at Katoomba still drizzling in late afternoon though it might have been morning, or any other time, with the,samenpss'of the dull light filtering through the mist-from all sides. +The slow upward grind eventually found us at Katoomba - still drizzling in late afternoon though it might have been morning, or any other time, with the sameness of the dull light filtering through the mist from all sides. 
-Warmed up by hot coffee and toast we headed for Devil's Hole, amid the same conditions and with the light fast fading. Our idea of Galong Creek gradually receded from our minds1 but we,were in high spiruts (oddly enough) and determined to enjoy the fun,. cOme what may, + 
-The turn-off negotiated, We conteffiplated a camp site. Nothing but soggy wei ground, small pools of Water linked with thin streamlets and all vegetdion both dead and alive simply dripping with water - not very inviting at dusk or any hour.' Our search was finally rewarded by a nice, just tent- sized, patch of green springy plant life which grows close to the ground, and on this limited area we erected our shelter - to wit one Willesden.- +Warmed up by hot coffee and toast we headed for Devil's Hole, amid the same conditions and with the light fast fading. Our idea of Galong Creek gradually receded from our minds, but we were in high spirits (oddly enough) and determined to enjoy the fun, come what may. 
-Still shielded by ground sheets from the wet trees etc., the rain having temporarily veased, we hunted for fuel. This required an almost individual selection of tinder from the sodaen. mass. Under a dome of groundsheets and us, a small fire was coaxed tO sufficient proportions in three quarters of an hour to justify our boiling the billy. Quite a good hot dinner followed, thanks to said fire which behaved wonderfully, and so to bed as the rain came on again. + 
-;- Believe it or not we were very comfortable, warm and dry thanks to +The turn-off negotiated, we contemplated a camp site. Nothing but soggy wet ground, small pools of water linked with thin streamlets and all vegettion both dead and alive simply dripping with water - not very inviting at dusk or any hour. Our search was finally rewarded by a nice, just tent-sized, patch of green springy plant life which grows close to the ground, and on this limited area we erected our shelter - to wit one Willesden. 
-that little patch of greenery - under 'which we could bear'the water trickling as with heads to the ground We drifted to sleep. Outailde was quietness, as only the bush can be at night, broken by the monotonous and rather sleepy sound of a myriad drops of water as they foil from leaf to "earth again and again as the misty rain fed the leaves. + 
-Late 'nextmorning, Keening Zero" and no rain.; we tuned back to . Katoomba Station where we joyfully notod,a..train due at-two orclocki but +Still shielded by ground sheets from the wet trees etc., the rain having temporarily ceased, we hunted for fuel. This required an almost individual selection of tinder from the sodden mass. Under a dome of groundsheets and us, a small fire was coaxed to sufficient proportions in three quarters of an hour to justify our boiling the billy. Quite a good hot dinner followed, thanks to said fire which behaved wonderfully, and so to bed as the rain came on again. 
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-on closer scrutiny found two followea by a m. too bad. +Believe it or not we were very comfortable, warm and dry thanks to that little patch of greenery - under which we could hear the water trickling as with heads to the ground we drifted to sleep. Outside was quietness, as only the bush can be at night, broken by the monotonous and rather sleepy sound of a myriad drops of water as they fell from leaf to earth again and again as the misty rain fed the leaves. 
-We lunched in the waiting room with the aid of the N.S.R:R.-doal and fireplace, and decided to beat the next train to Blackheath where it was due in two hours. The- afternoon' had cleared somewhat and in bracing coolness we stopped it out along the main road hobnails tearing and skidding. + 
-The distance was covered in one and three quarter hours not bad we think so we returned to the _metropolis fc41ing 'strangely contented with our night out above Devil's -AolG. +Late next morning, "ceiling Zero" and no rain, we turned back to Katoomba Station where we joyfully noted a train due at two o'clock; but on closer scrutiny found two followed by a.m. - too bad. 
-Iiiierealt WOMBAT' s drticlet -onough- to ru-I:n any man s hopes of finding gold? Oh, no! -JOHN BATTYE^ is hot on the scent. John has zone west, to join FRASER liATCLIFF, in. the-. search for the 'treasured metal. + 
-GOld.:Mines goqP.'-to bb an 'Sale to -bUshwalkers at +We lunched in the waiting room with the aid of the N.S.W.R. coal and fireplace, and decided to beat the next train to Blackheath where it was due in two hours. The afternoon had cleared somewhat and in bracing coolness we stepped it out along the main road - hobnails tearing and skidding. 
-'bargain. prices*.  + 
-0 +The distance was covered in one and three quarter hours - not bad we think - so we returned to the metropolis feeling strangely contented with our night out above Devil's Hole. 
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-YOJR OPTOMIi1TPIST +---- 
-. F.:GOODMAN, M...1. 0. - + 
-Olotometrit'an d. Optician 20 Hunter Street, Sydney. +Weren't __Wombat's__ articlues enough to ruin any man's hopes of finding gold? Oh, no! __John Battye__ is hot on the scent. John has gone west, to join __Fraser Ratcliff__ in the search for the treasured metal. Gold mines soon to be on sale to bushwalkers at bargain prices. 
-aacY a 4/ Of Os + 
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-'Phone B3438. +
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-Modern methods Of Eye Examination" and Eye Training Careful Spectacle Fitting. 
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-Fixing an appointment yillfacilitate the reservation of time for giving you proper attention., but should you be unable to ring us beforehand, your visit will be welcome at any time you may choose to 
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