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-Editorilal 1
+Editorial 1
 At our February Meeting -- Alex Colley 3
-The Sanitarium Health ?cod Shop (Advt.) 5
+The Sanitarium Health Food Shop (Advt.) 5
 January Walks Report Brian Anderson 6
 Your Walking Guide 6
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 Social Notables 17
 White Ant borings 18
 The Oberon Stock Route.-- "The Gent in The Tent" 19
 S.B.W. Annual Swimming Carnival 22
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 March 19th Bonno Barr will be showing a selection of his 2i" Kodachromes. It is a show that only Bonno could put on and you know that means it must be "mighty".
 March 26th Hans Zatschlor,a visitor from Austria5will have an interesting night of slides taken in his homeland. We believe some of the ones on Alpine mountaineering are really breathtaking.
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-WHITE 1..NT BORINGS.
+====== White Ant Borings ======
 To start with, here's a couple of tales from the Kosciusko Christmas trip that we missed out on last month.
-Picture this scene at the Red Hut. It's pouring rain outside while inside fourteen sorely-tried bods are desperately striving to dry out their wet gear from the previous night's campsite washout. Under such circumstances how on earth do you dry out so many sleeping bags? Lha, you have to think big. They lined up no fewer than EIGHT prinuses in a row below the saturated slumber sacks. Some hours and several gallons of kerosene later, it is reported that success was achieved.
-Kipling's "If" Dept: Tents had been washed out, gear saturated, tempers frayed and a whole camp had been uprooted when the Kosciusko trippers received their 4" rain ration in one night. Sometime in the wee small hours, when the routed party had assembled in the Red Hut, a certain party's presence was missed. "Where's Bookie?". No one had seen him. On a last visit to the campsites one tent was seen to be still erect - Frank Lshdown parted the laps to reveal our Bookie sitting up quite unconcernedly, reading a book by torchlight and obviously at peace with the world. Bookie's only comment - "This is a terrific hovel, Frank",
+Picture this scene at the Red Hut. It's pouring rain outside while inside fourteen sorely tried bods are desperately striving to dry out their wet gear from the previous night's campsite washout. Under such circumstances how on earth do you dry out so many sleeping bags? Ha, you have to think big. They lined up no fewer than EIGHT primuses in a row below the saturated slumber sacks. Some hours and several gallons of kerosene later, it is reported that success was achieved.
+Kipling's "If" Dept: Tents had been washed out, gear saturated, tempers frayed and a whole camp had been uprooted when the Kosciusko trippers received their 4" rain ration in one night. Sometime in the wee small hours, when the routed party had assembled in the Red Hut, a certain party's presence was missed. "Where's Bookie?". No one had seen him. On a last visit to the campsites one tent was seen to be still erect - Frank Ashdown parted the laps to reveal our Bookie sitting up quite unconcernedly, reading a book by torchlight and obviously at peace with the world. Bookie's only comment - "This is a terrific novel, Frank",
 Kevin Ardill's quip on his forthcoming round-the-world-yacht cruise: "This is definitely a pleasure cruise - no women allowed."
-Speaking of round-the-world jaunts, we hear that Edna Garrad will set off in May for an eleven week world tour, mainly by plane, during he long service leave. You'll be breathless when you get back Edna, but not too breathless to tell us all about it, we hope. The Club. wishes you a happy and rewarding trip.
-On a recent official day walk, it was reported that the entire party consisted of the leader and one (one only) other member, with one (one only) Girl Guide's pack between them. The lone starter, although a member of several years standing and with many hard trips under his belt, was on his first day walk - his sole equipment was a
+Speaking of round-the-world jaunts, we hear that Edna Garrad will set off in May for an eleven week world tour, mainly by plane, during he long service leave. You'll be breathless when you get back Edna, but not too breathless to tell us all about it, we hope. The Club wishes you a happy and rewarding trip.
-cut lunch. What next? Perhaps there ought to be a compulsory Instructional Weekend for instruction in day walks or something. The name of the member? You've got Buckley's Chance of finding that out.
-Who's going mountaineering after hearing Bob Binks expound on the
+On a recent official day walk, it was reported that the entire party consisted of the leader and one (one only) other member, with one (one only) Girl Guide's pack between them. The lone starter, although a member of several years standing and with many hard trips under his belt, was on his first day walk - his sole equipment was a cut lunch. What next? Perhaps there ought to be a compulsory Instructional Weekend for instruction in day walks or something. The name of the member? You've got Buckley's Chance of finding that out.
-subject of "Mountaineering Injuries and their Treatment"? Bob had
-mangled and dying bodies littering the Ingersoll Hall by the time he'd
+Who's going mountaineering after hearing Bob Binks expound on the subject of "Mountaineering Injuries and their Treatment"? Bob had mangled and dying bodies littering the Ingersoll Hall by the time he'd
 finished - it's rumoured that one or two are already selling their climbing ropes. But aside from the jokes, all agreed it was an interesting, informative and unusual evening.
-And a happy Annual General and Reunion to all S.B.W.'s. I won't say farewell because who knows but what the new Editor might be quite
-a tolerant and forbearing type and let MB continue these rambling
+And a happy Annual General and Reunion to all S.B.W.'s. I won't say farewell because who knows but what the new Editor might be quite a tolerant and forbearing type and let me continue these rambling shamblings in future magazines. Thanks anyway for the gossip - it was all on you.
-shamblings in future magazines. Thanks anyway for the gossip -
-it was all on you.
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-"White Lnt".
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+====== The Oberon Stock Route ======
-THE OBERON STOCK ROUTE
 --"The Gent in The Tent",
 The Editor says, he is temporarily short of articles for the magazine. Well, here is One, written after last Easter, which may be of interest as a record when the rising waters of WarragaMba Dam block the access road to Yerraaderie and Gut the settlement off from the rest of the State to all but walkers and horsemen.
-Many Club members have traversed the Eastern end of the Oberon Stock Route from Oolong Station to the Yerranderie Road to catch transport to Camden after various walking trips, but very few have traversed the Stock Route from Yerrandcrie Road in a Westerly direction to Shooter's Hill in the Oberon District. At Faster, John White's programmed trip over this route offered an admirable opportunity to visit Mt. Shivering and beyond.
+Many Club members have traversed the Eastern end of the Oberon Stock Route from Colong Station to the Yerranderie Road to catch transport to Camden after various walking trips, but very few have traversed the Stock Route from Yerrandcrie Road in a Westerly direction to Shooter's Hill in the Oberon District. At Faster, John White's programmed trip over this route offered an admirable opportunity to visit Mt. Shivering and beyond.
 The party consisted of Sheila Binns, Mary Walton, Molly and Bill Rodgers, Betty Sisley, Lynette Babel', John Bookluck, Alan Round, Bob Abernethy, John White and myself. We set out in 8.0 p m. train to Camden on the Thursday evening and found Camden blanketed in fog. There were two taxis waiting to take us the 40 miles to the Stock Route turn off, two miles East of Yerranderie. The fog was really thick, but, to the relief of our drivers, dispersed about 2 miles out and was encountered again only near Braithwaite's Lookout and the Upper Burragorang Bridge. We reached the site of the Peaks settlement soon after 1.0 a m, and camped near the head of Byrne's Creek about 1/4 mile along the Stock route.
 Next morning came out beautifully clear after some early cloud. We were away at about 9.0 a m. climbing up the road to the Gap near South Peak where there were some lovely views across the surrounding country. In an address given to the Royal Australian Historical Society in 1910 concerning Barallier's 127. plorations in the Area, Mr, R.H. Cambage, who evidently did quite a lot of exploring and traversed the Stock Route, comments, "It is significant as illustrating the ruggedness of this part of the country, that this is the passage - (between South Peak and the rest of Thc Peaks) through which the whole of the stock traffic is conducted to the present day between Burragorang and Oberon, and the greater part of the road between this passage and Mt. Werong, about 25 miles, is still only a bridle track."