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- | A LETTER TO THE EDITOR NEW EQUIPMENT | + | ===== A Letter To The Editor - New Equipment. ===== |
"Dear Sir: | "Dear Sir: | ||
- | I am grateful to your goodself and Jess Martin for bringing the matter of the 'Reserve for New Equipment Fund!' | + | |
- | I have been awaiting the opportunity to fulfil the " | + | I am grateful to your goodself and Jess Martin for bringing the matter of the "Reserve for New Equipment Fund" |
- | In the nine years preceding March 1947 the stencils for this Magazine were cut commercially by a lady who at that date sold her business, the purchaser whereof declining to continue our work as she considered it no longer a commercial proposition. Nor would anybody else take it on. However, our own Gwen Rootes | + | |
- | During the fcar-year period his machine | + | I have been awaiting the opportunity to fulfil the " |
- | Add to this saving the fact that many bushwalking employees knocked out stencils for 107 duplicating jobs over the same four years on their employers? machines. Included in these are our own Club Annual Reports of a dozen foolscap pages or so, Hints to Prospective Members, Code of Ethics, Federation Annual Reports, to mention a few. 35 might cover them. | + | |
- | 4, | + | In the nine years preceding March 1947 the stencils for this Magazine were cut commercially by a lady who at that date sold her business, the purchaser whereof declining to continue our work as she considered it no longer a commercial proposition. Nor would anybody else take it on. However, our own Gwen Rootes |
- | Without Mr. Colley' | + | |
- | When Mr. Colley relinquished the Editorship this year the Business Manager, at his own expense, acquired the former' | + | During the four-year period his machine |
- | And now, to further these few remarks, you dolibtless | + | |
- | than a 50-page edition has been approved by a general meeting. The subcommittee is ncu embarrassed because the member who was going to do it on her EMPLOYER'S madhine has left her job for the country! The club portable, used by the Hon. Secretary, will not cut stencils, a fact any typiste will support. | + | Add to this saving the fact that many bushwalking employees knocked out stencils for 107 duplicating jobs over the same four years on their employers' |
- | I am sure no further | + | |
- | It's time members realised they will have to foot the bill of increased costs in common with the rest of the community and delve their hands into their pockets. The present method of raising funds from theatre parties is negative, futile and non-co-operative. At the first party there was a mere handful of members whilst | + | Without Mr. Colley' |
- | The only equitable manner of raising money for general club purposes is to call in en equal contribution on all sides by raising the annual subscription by say 5/-, if even for a couple of years, then reverting back as may be disclosed in the balance sheet. Any additional sum so raised can be set aside per capita and transferred to the Special Reserve. The Club could then be run on a business-like basis instead of scraping along as though dependent on charity. As a 24-years-old organisation of nearly 300 members, many of whom occupy high positions in the city, we are behaving more like a society of depression pensioners down to their last pennies than a group of citizens enjoying the greatest financial boom ever known in this fair land. | + | |
- | - Brian G. Harvey. | + | When Mr. Colley relinquished the Editorship this year the Business Manager, at his own expense, acquired the former' |
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- | A NEW ANGLE. | + | And now, to further these few remarks, you doubtless |
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+ | I am sure no further | ||
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+ | It's time members realised they will have to foot the bill of increased costs in common with the rest of the community and delve their hands into their pockets. The present method of raising funds from theatre parties is negative, futile and non-co-operative. At the first party there was a mere handful of members whilst | ||
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+ | The only equitable manner of raising money for general club purposes is to call in an equal contribution on all sides by raising the annual subscription by say 5/-, if even for a couple of years, then reverting back as may be disclosed in the balance sheet. Any additional sum so raised can be set aside per capita and transferred to the Special Reserve. The Club could then be run on a business-like basis instead of scraping along as though dependent on charity. As a 24-years-old organisation of nearly 300 members, many of whom occupy high positions in the city, we are behaving more like a society of depression pensioners down to their last pennies than a group of citizens enjoying the greatest financial boom ever known in this fair land. | ||
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+ | - Brian G. Harvey." | ||
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+ | ===== A New Angle. ===== | ||
By Betty Hall. | By Betty Hall. | ||
- | Petersonrs | + | |
- | This cartoon emphasises an angle to conservation that we should all consider. As bushwalkers we have been mainly concerned with the preservation of the bush in its natural state, but it is as well to remember that unless steps are tahan to ensure that the land already cleared is irrigated, fertilised, re-afforested and saved from flood, then it is our" bush that will in turn be opened for new sources of timber, fresh pastureland and vegetable growing, while soil erosion gradually extends. We can see the beginning of this process in timber cutting in Government reserves and at Yeola. Although much of the bush | + | Peterson' |
- | - around Sydney is unsuitable for crops or pasture there is still much timber there and a vigorous re-afforestation programme in woodland already cleared could s aye it. | + | |
- | In the clubroom we recently saw a film on the National Park Trust in United Kingdom but while this film showed the excellent work done by the Trust, it only painted half the picture. There was no mention of the beauty spots spoiled before they could be reserved or of the ribbon development between London and Windsor that ruined many acres of market gardens. United Kingdom is a country almost entirely dependent upon imported food and although there are great differences we can already see the danger signs here in the butter shortages and the periodical shortages of vegetables and milk due, among other things, to lack of flood control. Unless these problems are solved the bush will suffer and we must realise that our problems of reserves and sanctuaries are directly affected by the Government' | + | This cartoon emphasises an angle to conservation that we should all consider. As bushwalkers we have been mainly concerned with the preservation of the bush in its natural state, but it is as well to remember that unless steps are taken to ensure that the land already cleared is irrigated, fertilised, re-afforested and saved from flood, then it is "our" bush that will in turn be opened for new sources of timber, fresh pastureland and vegetable growing, while soil erosion gradually extends. We can see the beginning of this process in timber cutting in Government reserves and at Yeola. Although much of the bush around Sydney is unsuitable for crops or pasture there is still much timber there and a vigorous re-afforestation programme in woodland already cleared could save it. |
- | In supporting Mr. Weir in his stand against cuts in Government expenditure on conervation work we have made a start, but as was pointed out at the meeting, Government departments do not always carry out their stated intentions and I feel that every clubmember | + | |
- | In England during the war it was proposed to use the AbbOtsbury | + | In the clubroom we recently saw a film on the National Park Trust in United Kingdom but while this film showed the excellent work done by the Trust, it only painted half the picture. There was no mention of the beauty spots spoiled before they could be reserved or of the ribbon development between London and Windsor that ruined many acres of market gardens. United Kingdom is a country almost entirely dependent upon imported food and although there are great differences we can already see the danger signs here in the butter shortages and the periodical shortages of vegetables and milk due, among other things, to lack of flood control. Unless these problems are solved the bush will suffer and we must realise that our problems of reserves and sanctuaries are directly affected by the Government' |
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- | WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. | + | In supporting Mr. Weir in his stand against cuts in Government expenditure on conervation work we have made a start, but as was pointed out at the meeting, Government departments do not always carry out their stated intentions and I feel that every club member |
- | (A further | + | |
+ | In England during the war it was proposed to use the Abbotsbury | ||
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+ | ===== Weights And Measures. ===== | ||
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+ | (A further | ||
By R. Cook. | By R. Cook. | ||
- | The mug used in measuring here was an average sized bushwalker mug Which holds 13 liquid ounces. | + | |
+ | The mug used in measuring here was an average sized bushwalker mug which holds 13 liquid ounces. | ||
This list has proved useful in calculating food for a long trip and also in rationing it on the trip. | This list has proved useful in calculating food for a long trip and also in rationing it on the trip. | ||
- | FLOUR 2 heaped dessertspoonsful 1 oz. | + | |
- | 1 mugful = 8 ozs. | + | |Flour|2 heaped dessertspoonsful|= 1 oz.| |
- | SUGAR 3 level dessertspoonful = 1 oz. | + | | |1 mugful1 |
- | 1 mugful | + | |Sugar|3 level dessertspoonful|= 1 oz.| |
- | TEA 5 level dessertspoonsful 1 oz. | + | | |1 mugful|= 12 ozs.| |
- | ROLLED OATS 3 heaped dessertspoonsful | + | |Tea|5 level dessertspoonsful|= 1 oz.| |
- | 1 oz. | + | |Rolled oats|3 heaped dessertspoonsful|= 1 oz.| |
- | 1 mugful 5 oss. | + | | |1 mugful|= 5 ozs.| |
- | DRIED POTATO | + | |Dried potato|3 heaped dessertspoonsful|= 1 oz.| |
- | 1 mugful | + | | |1 mugful|= 5 ozs.| |
- | - | + | |Dried carrot|3 heaped dessertspoonsful|= 1 oz.| |
- | DRIED CARROT | + | | |1 mugful| = 5 ozs.| |
- | 1 mugful = 5 ozs. | + | |Rice|3 heaped dessertspoonsful|= 2 ozs.| |
- | RICE 3 heaped dessertspoonsful = 2 ozs. | + | | |1 mugful|= 12 ozs.| |
- | . | + | |Custard powder|2 heaped |
- | 1 mugful 12 ozs. | + | |Salt|1 |
- | CUSTARD POWDER | + | |Powdered milk|2 heaped dassertspoonsful|= 1 oz. (barely)| |
- | SALT I heaped dessertspoonsful = 1 Oz | + | | | |= 1/2 pint milk.| |
- | POWDERED MILK 2 heaped dassertspoonsful | + | |
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- | gs T pint milk. | + | |
- | 4.4.0/ | + | ===== Weekend Walk - 28th, 29th July, 1951. ===== |
- | WEEKEND WALK - 28TH 29TH JULY 1951. | + | |
(This extract from a report by the leader is published for record purposes ard information.) | (This extract from a report by the leader is published for record purposes ard information.) | ||
- | Spencer - Mangrove Creek Popran Creek - Calga - Mooney Creek Somersby Falls - Gosfcrd. | + | |
- | Attendance: Gladys Martin, Glads Roberts, Kath Bromn, Edna Stretton, | + | Spencer - Mangrove Creek - Popran Creek - Calga - Mooney Creek - Somersby Falls - Gosford. |
- | Molly Gallard, Dorothy Byrne, Beverley Price, Marge Barnes, | + | |
- | Nell Jordon (Visitor), Jim Brown, Ray Moore, David Ingram | + | __Attendance__: Gladys Martin, Glads Roberts, Kath Bromn, Edna Stretton, Molly Gallard, Dorothy Byrne, Beverley Price, Marge Barnes, Nell Jordon (Visitor), Jim Brown, Ray Moore, David Ingram (leader). |
- | (leader) | + | |
- | 7. | + | Probably the most remarkable thing about this walk was the fact that 9 girls and only 3 men turned up for a test walk in almost unknown |
- | Probably the most remarkable thing about this walk was the fact that 9 girls and only 3 men turned up for a test walk in almost unknown | + | |
- | It is ess ential | + | It is essential |
- | Rail Sydney - Hawkesbury River, Return 5/4d. Launch Hawkesbury River - Spencer - Single | + | |
- | Rail Gosford Hawkesbury River - Single | + | |Rail|Sydney - Hawkesbury River, Return|5/4d.| |
- | Total ... | + | |Launch|Hawkesbury River - Spencer - Single|1/6d.| |
- | The skipper of the launch was able to manoeuvre the craft into | + | |Rail|Gosford |
- | what is lef t of the old Government wharf at Spencer on the _East side of Mangrove Creek, and. land the party safely. From this point thOld mail road was followed for several | + | | |Total|9/6d.| |
- | Next morning at 8.50 a m. we re-crossed the creek and climbed up about 650 feet by a steep road behind the sawmill to the site of the old Calga School. Then nearly 3 miles North along the old Peatts | + | |
- | just near the S amersby | + | The skipper of the launch was able to manoeuvre the craft into what is left of the old Government wharf at Spencer on the East side of Mangrove Creek, and land the party safely. From this point the old mail road was followed for several |
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- | S.B.W'S ON TYROL'S SUMMIT. | + | Next morning at 8.50 a.m. we re-crossed the creek and climbed up about 650 feet by a steep road behind the sawmill to the site of the old Calga School. Then nearly 3 miles North along the old Peat' |
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+ | ===== S.B.W's On Tyrol's Summit. ===== | ||
By Frank Leyden. | By Frank Leyden. | ||
- | Leon Blumer, Dave Pritchard (ex-Sydney) and myself left Innsbruck (see sketch) on 16th March this year for a nine-day ski tour in the High Oetztaler Alps, the biggest and highest group of mountains in Austria. Snow lay deep and heavy on the mountains and down to 2,000 feet for it had been a severe winter. However it was the time of spring and sunshine (we hoped) and the time for the high ski tours. We saw whole villages smashed to pieces, as a result of recent avalanches near Obergurgl some weeks previously. We carried no food but the day-long and half the night cli/r up the glacier in deep sticking snow to the Hochwildhaus hut, 9,600 feet, exhausted us. Next day the guide and myself alone climbed the nearby Hochwilde 11,600 feet. Weather was bad but we got glimpses of the magnificent view down into Italy, for we were right on the border. | ||
- | Leon and Dave got their baptism of the high mountains next day in the crossing in bad weather of the 11,000 feet pass, Schalfkogljoch. Onward mile after mile of downhill powder snow brought us to Samoar Hut. These huts are provisioned and staffed. One has excellent meals and sleeps warm in clean sheets for 8/- to 10/- a day, in the remotest places in the Austrian Alps. The full moon view of the great giants of rock and ice that night gave an unforgettable sight. But we had to continue in bad weather and grope our way next day up to the 10,000 feet Italian Hut, Similaun, right on the border. That evening came the worst blizzard | ||
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- | 0Milan | + | Leon Blumer, Dave Pritchard (ex-Sydney) and myself left Innsbruck (see sketch) on 16th March this year for a nine-day ski tour in the High Oetztaler Alps, the biggest and highest group of mountains in Austria. Snow lay deep and heavy on the mountains and down to 2,000 feet for it had been a severe winter. However it was the time of spring and sunshine (we hoped) and the time for the high ski tours. We saw whole villages smashed to pieces, as a result of recent avalanches near Obergurgl some weeks previously. We carried no food but the day-long and half the night climb up the glacier in deep sticking snow to the Hochwildhaus hut, 9,600 feet, exhausted us. Next day the guide and myself alone climbed the nearby Hochwilde 11,600 feet. Weather was bad but we got glimpses of the magnificent view down into Italy, for we were right on the border. |
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- | 0 25 50 | + | Leon and Dave got their baptism of the high mountains next day in the crossing in bad weather of the 11,000 feet pass, Schalfkogljoch. Onward mile after mile of downhill powder snow brought us to Samoar Hut. These huts are provisioned and staffed. One has excellent meals and sleeps warm in clean sheets for 8/- to 10/- a day, in the remotest places in the Austrian Alps. The full moon view of the great giants of rock and ice that night gave an unforgettable sight. But we had to continue in bad weather and grope our way next day up to the 10,000 feet Italian Hut, Similaun, right on the border. That evening came the worst blizzard |
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- | I have yet seen in the Alps. The hut was encased and sheathed in foot thick ice and shuddered perpetually as the wind thundered like a great organ note. | + | The following day was extremely |
- | The following day was extremely | + | |
- | great summit, Finailspitze, | + | Bad weather |
- | Bad weather | + | |
- | 12,120 feet. We got to the top at sunset, but the views against the light were outstandingly beautiful, even though the wind and cold was almost unbearable. The peaks turned orange, then deep red, as we descended. | + | However, it was the nearby Wildspitze, 12,600 feet, and highest in Tyrol, that we mainly hoped for. First attempt a few days later we were beaten back from the higher glaciers by the weather. The next attempt was better. The Wildspitze looks the biggest too, for it is girt with the biggest and wildest crevasses, seracs and broken ice in the whole of Austria. A scenic paradise, but no place to be alone or lost. As usual we skied up as far as the ice, then roped up; just guide, Leon and myself in that order. The upper ice ridge on cut steps was delicate. Sloping plate glass, steeply dipping for hundreds of feet on one side and rock precipice for thousands of feet on the other. At the great iron cross on the summit we beheld, on every hand below us, a wilderness of mountain grandeur. The little flannel flower badge has been coming to the highest and furthest place. In intense cold, almost unbelievable, |
- | However, it was the nearby Wildspitze, 12,600 feet, and highest in Tyrol, that we mainly hoped for. First attempt a few days later we were beaten back from the higher glaciers by the weather. The next attempt was better. The Wildspitze looks the biggest too, for it is girt with the biggest and wildest crevasses, seracs and broken ice in the whole of Austria. A scenic paradise, but no place to be alone or lost. As usual we skied up as far as the ice, then roped up; just guide, Leon and myself in that order. The upper ice ridge on cut steps was delicate. Sloping plate glass, steeply dipping for hundreds of feet on one side | + | |
- | and rock precipice for thousands of feet an the other. At the great iron cross on the summit we beheld, on every hand below us, a wilderness of mountain grandeur, The little flannel flower badge has been coming to the highest and furthest place. In intense cold, almost unbelievable, | + | ---- |
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FIELD WEEKEND WITHIN TI-IE PROPOSED ZIO.IONG NATIONAL PARK. | FIELD WEEKEND WITHIN TI-IE PROPOSED ZIO.IONG NATIONAL PARK. | ||
The Field Weekend set down for October 27/28th will be held at Dillon' | The Field Weekend set down for October 27/28th will be held at Dillon' |
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