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-THE SYDNEY BUSHWALEER.
+====== The Sydney Bushwalker. ======
-A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydnay Bush, Wreakers,
-The N.S.W. Nurses' Association Rooms, "Northcote Building",
+A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, The N.S.W. Nurses' Association Rooms, "Northcote Building", Reiby Place, Sydney. Box No. 4476, G.P.O. Sydney. 'Phone JW1462.
-Reiby Place, Sydney.  Box No.4476 G.P.O., Sydney.
-'Phone JIN1462.
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-OCTOBER, 1959 Price 1/-
-Editor: Don Matthews, 33 Pomona Street, Reproduction: El letzn. Taylor.
+=== No. 298. October, 1959. Price 1/- ===
- Pennant Hills. WU3514. Sales & Subs.: Auelrey Kenway
- Business Manager: Brian Harvey. Typed by Jean Harvey.
+|**Editor**|Don Matthews, 33 Pomona Street, Pennant Hills. WJ3514.|
-CONTENTS.
+|**Business Manager**|Brian Harvey.|
-Page
+|**Reproduction**|Eileen Taylor.|
-.Editorial. .. 1
+|**Sales and Subs**|Audrey Kenway.|
-- --Sobial14Ogram - Ed. Garrad S.2
+|**Typed by**|Jean Harvey.|
---,_ Idr-Our4epteMber Half-yearly Meeting -Alex. Colley 2
-In Debatable Land - Kath McKay 4
+===== In This Issue: =====
-London Letters . 5
-Sanitarium Health Food Shop (Advertisement) 7
-Bush Artists - Clarice Morris 7
-Hatswell's Taxi & Tourist Service (Advertisement) - 9
-'!The Rates Were Delicious" - Written by J.11% 11
-Paddy's Advertisement 13
-Blossoms and Bulljoes - Puffing Billy 14
-Recommended Test Walks for October 15
-With Lyn Baber in Pakistan and Afghanistan 15
-c
-Jim Brown's Walk - "The Gent in the Tent" 19
-If you were present at the recent Debate you. 'U remember a certain play-on-words which poses the question -
+| | |Page|
-"IS THE EDITCR VERACIOUS CR. VORACIOUS".
+|Editorial| | 1|
+|Social Program|Ed. Garrad| 2|
+|At Our September Half-yearly Meeting|Alex. Colley| 2|
+|In Debatable Land|Kath McKay| 4|
+|London Letters| | 5|
+|Bush Artists|Clarice Morris| 7|
+|"The Rates Were Delicious"|Written by J.W.|11|
+|Blossoms and Bulljoes|Puffing Billy|14|
+|Recommended Test Walks for October| |15|
+|With Lyn Baber in Pakistan and Afghanistan| |15|
+|Jim Brown's Walk|"The Gent in the Tent"|19|
+===== Advertisements: =====
+| |Page|
+|Sanitarium Health Food Shop| 7|
+|Hattswell's Taxi & Tourist Service| 9|
+|Paddy's Advertisement|13|
+----
+If you were present at the recent Debate you'll remember a certain play-on-words which poses the question -
+"Is the Editor veracious or voracious".
 It sometimes pays to be Veracious when wringing a contribution from an unwilling victim. One faithful supporter (recently injured) responded to a few home truths sent out via the grape vine, and replied:
 "A rumour reached me that a damaged ankle should not extend as far as the wrist. To prove your point...."
 Whilst in the veracious mood, may we claim that 95% of members must have suffered some sort of damage which does extend to the wrist.
-So, gripping your pen firmly in Teeth or Toes, get to work:
-"Oh, but I can't write", do I hear you see by. which you mean you can't construe, and this is probably horribly true but doesn't matter a great deal because most readers are more interested in what you write rather than how you write it.
+So, gripping your pen firmly in Teeth or Toes, get to work!
-.
-Anyhow, the best type of contributor is always very modest and begs the Editor to alter his work if necessary to conform with the standards of the Journal, or
+"Oh, but I can't write", do I hear you say? by which you mean you can't construe, and this is probably horribly true but doesn't matter a great deal because most readers are more interested in what you write rather than how you write it.
-even to consign it to the w p.b. This never happens, but the deference shown boosts the Ed's. ego to the point -where he thinks he'll probably last out until the Annual General after all.
-As for Voracious; twenty pages mightn't seam a great deal, but nine or ten contributors are needed to get it together, i e.. 15% of our average Clubroom attendance or 5%  of our active members.
+Anyhow, the best type of contributor is always very modest and begs the Editor to alter his work if necessary to conform with the standards of the Journal, or even to consign it to the w.p.b. This never happens, but the deference shown boosts the Ed's. ego to the point where he thinks he'll probably last out until the Annual General after all.
+As for Voracious; twenty pages mightn't seam a great deal, but nine or ten contributors are needed to get it together, i.e. 15% of our average Clubroom attendance or 5% of our active members.
 So, when a character with a lean and hungry Editorial look asks you politely for a few pages, be kind to him, won't you?
-Remember, next year, it might be you
-SOCIAL PROGRAM.
+Remember, next year, it might be you!
+----
+===== Social Program. =====
 Edna Garrad.
-OCTOBER 21ST Scenic Colour Slide Competition. We hope to have some interesting entries and a good audience on this night. All slides will have been collected by 30th September,
-OCTOBER 28TH Prospective Members' Night. First aid lecture 7.15 p m.
+|October 21st|Scenic Colour Slide Competition. We hope to have some interesting entries and a good audience on this night. All slides will have been collected by 30th September.|
-NOVEMBER 18TH Snow Brown and party - slides of their Tasmanian trip. Most of us
+|October 28th|Prospective Members' Night. First aid lecture 7.15 p m.|
-are familiar with the more dramatic details of this trip and will be looking forward to seeing the slides.
+|November 18th|Snow Brown and party - slides of their Tasmanian trip. Most of us are familiar with the more dramatic details of this trip and will be looking forward to seeing the slides.|
-DECEMBER 10TH Christmas Party at the North Sydney Council Chambers. We bring this to your notice so that no one will have the excuse of a prior engage- ment. A good band has been engaged and we expect to have lots of fun.
+|December 10th|Christmas Party at the North Sydney Council Chambers. We bring this to your notice so that no one will have the excuse of a prior engagement. A good band has been engaged and we expect to have lots of fun. Let's have a good roll up!|
-Let's have a good roll up:
-AT OUR SEPTEMBER HALF-YEARLY MEETING.
+----
+===== At Our September Half-Yearly Meeting. =====
 Alex Colley.
-There were no new members and it was not long before the minutes had been
-confirmed and correspondence was before us. In it we learned that the owner of the
+There were no new members and it was not long before the minutes had been confirmed and correspondence was before us. In it we learned that the owner of the car, from which issued a bullet that nearly hit the President, had been interviewed by the police and told not to shoot near roadways or other places where people might be. Also that the vacancy on the Bouddi Trust had been filled by Fred Hursey, field officer of the Fauna Protection Panel.
-car, from which issued a bullet that nearly hit the President, had been interviewed
-by the police and told not to shoot near roadways or other places where people might be. Also that the vacancy on the Bouddi Trust had been filled by Fred Hursey, field officer of the Fauna Protection Panel.
+The two Constitutional amendments were passed without demur, thus freeing the Auditor and Treasurer of any responsibility for a half-yearly audit, and enabling the Treasurer to simplify his books by charging members admitted in the second half of the financial year only half fees (instead of charging full fees and carrying half of them on to next year).
-The two Constitutional amendments were passed without demur, thus freeing the Auditor and Treasurer of any responsibility for a half-yearly audit, and enabling the Treasurer to simplify his books by charging members admitted in the second half of
-the financial year only half fees (instead of charging full fees and carrying half of them on to next year).
+We learned with regret that our energetic Assistant Walks Secretary, John Logan, had had to resign because of his transfer to Canberra, but the Walks Secretary was pleased to tell us that Frank Young had immediately offered to take on the job, and landed it.
-.
-We learned with regret that our energetic Assistant Walks Secretary, John Logan, had had to resign because of his transfer to Canberra, but the Walks Secretary,was pleased to tell us that Frank Young had immediately offered to take on the job, and landed it.
+A message from Roy Bennett invited members to meet him one weekend for a walk around the Cattai area, which he thought of considerable interest to us.
- A message from Roy Bennett invited members to meet him one weekend for a walk
-around t/B Cattai area, which he thought of considerable interest to us.
+A new system of room stewards - that of recruiting a number so that they wouldn't all have to be in on any one night - resulted in no less than five volunteers (Frank Barlow, Alan Wilson, Jack Wren, Len Young, Alex Colley).
-A new system of room stewards - that of recruiting a number so that they
-wouldn't all have to be in on any one night - resulted in no less than five volun-
+Bill Rodgers told us in his Walks Report that, although six of the programmed walks for the previous month had not gone because of lack of sufficient notice by starters, or just lack of starters, the remaining six attracted 34 members, 24 prospectives and three visitors.
-teers (Frank Barlow, Alan Wilson, JackWren, Len Young, Alex Colley).
-Bill Rodgers told us. in his Walks Report that, although six of the programmed
+Len Fall reported favourably on the management of the Warrumbungles National Park. Graded tracks were being made and camping facilities installed. Upwards of 70 people had been camped there recently. He suggested we write to Allen Strom congratulating him and, at the same time, wishing him a quick recovery from his accident. Allen is at present laid up with a broken shoulder as a result of a fall from a horse during a tour of the Macquarie Marshes.
-walks far the previous month had not gone because of lack of sufficient notice by
-starters, or just lack of starters, the remaining six attracted 34 members, 24 proqbectives and three visitors.
+Goof Wagg told us that the National Parks Association is producing a Christmas card. It featured a very attractive bushwalking scene of Bluegum Forest. It would appear about the end of the month and would retail at about 1/3d. Personal inscriptions could be arranged.
-Len Fall reported favourably on the management of the Warrumbungles National Park. Graded tracks were being made and camping facilities installed. Upwards of 70 people
-had been camped there recently. He suggested we write to Allen Strom congratulating
+Jack Wren then moved that prospectives should be advised by letter, instead of verbally in the Club Roam, of Committee's decision on their admission to the Club. It was generally agreed that if this procedure were adopted only the Committee and the prospective need know the decision and, if it were made a strict rule, embarrassment could be avoided. The motion was carried. A second motion moved by Jack - that members be not asked to sign forms in the presence of prospectives, was defeated. Most of the discussion centred on whether or not it was necessary that such a rule should appear on our books.
-him and, at the same time, wishing him a quick recovery from his accident. Allen is at present laid up with a broken shoulder as a result of a fall from a horse during a tour of the Macquarie Marshes.
-Goof Wagg told us that the National Parks Association is producing a Christmas card. It featured a very attractive bUshwalking scene of Bluegum Forest. It would appear about the end of the month and would retail at about Od. Personal, inscriptions could be arranged.
+The President then thanked Jack for a notice he had prepared mounted on a stand, drawing attention to magazine sales.
-Jack Wren then moved that prospectives should be advised by letter, instead of verbally in the Club Roam, of Committee's decision on their, admission to the Club.
-It was generally agreed that if this procedure were adopted only the Committee and the prospective need know the decision and, if it were made a strict rule, embarrassment could be avoided. The motion was carried. A second motidia moved by Jack - that medbers be not asked to sign forms in the presence of prospectives, was defeated,. Most of the discussion centred on whether or not it was necessary that such a rule should appear on our books.
+At the conclusion of the meeting Brian Harvey told us that as Brian and Dawn Anderson were unable to carry on with the duplication of the magazine, volunteers were required for the job. It would occupy about two evenings a month.
-The President then thanked Jack for a notice he had prepared mounted on a stand,
-drawing attention to magazine sales.
+----
-At the conclusion of the meeting Brian Harvey told us that as Brian and Pawn Anderson were unable to carry on with the duplication of the magazine, volunteers were required for the job. It would occupy about two evenings a month.
-CONGRATULATIONS TO -
+=== Congratulations to - ===
 Elsie and Roy Bruggy - a daughter, Sandra Joy, on August 12th.
 and to Mary and Bob Abernethy - a daughter.
-We've heard from "Binnsie" and hoRe to print news from her next month. She's recently spent ten days walking the Lakes 'istrict, has joined the I.R.A. and is getting around
-as much as possible.
+----
-IN DEBATABLE LAND.
+We've heard from "Binnsie" and hope to print news from her next month. She's recently spent ten days walking the Lakes District, has joined the Y.H.A. and is getting around as much as possible.
+----
+===== In Debatable Land. =====
 Kath McKay.
-On Wednesday, September 23rd, the evening at the Club was given over to an
-important del ete. Subject: "The Older Members are of Greater Benefit to the Club".
+On Wednesday, September 23rd, the evening at the Club was given over to an important debate. Subject: "The Older Members are of Greater Benefit to the Club".
-The :President, Jack Gentle, was in the chair, and three members, Messrs. Ardill, Hallstram and McGregor, represented the Government (Older Members) and three, Miss Pridliam and'Masters Knightley and Wagg the Opposition (Younger Members).
-Kevin Ardill, clothed in white robes with an angelic halo nodding atop his head' (which garb suggested that he vas already defunct) opened the debate on a sober note, marred slightly by frequent libations of a golden fluig in a bottle marked: "Bell's".
+The President, Jack Gentle, was in the chair, and three members, Messrs. Ardill, Hallstram and McGregor, represented the Government (Older Members) and three, Miss Pridham and Masters Knightley and Wagg the Opposition (Younger Members).
-Glasses were-provided for the Government and the President, and it was quite a ceremony pouring the required amount of liquor - sorry, liquid, into a tumbler,
-adding two carefully-measured spoonfuls of ice crystals from a thermos kept by
+Kevin Ardill, clothed in white robes with an angelic halo nodding atop his head (which garb suggested that he was already defunct) opened the debate on a sober note, marred slightly by frequent libations of a golden fluid in a bottle marked: "Bell's".
-Mr. McGregor and filling up with water. After each swig the saintly Ardill wiped his
-mouth on 'his,robes, and nlso (let it be 'whispered) blew his nose on the same handy
+Glasses were provided for the Government and the President, and it was quite a ceremony pouring the required amount of liquor - sorry, liquid, into a tumbler, adding two carefully-measured spoonfuls of ice crystals from a thermos kept by Mr. McGregor and filling up with water. After each swig the saintly Ardill wiped his mouth on his robes, and also (let it be whispered) blew his nose on the same handy garment.
-garment.
-The Opposition too had glasses and a huge red bottle-opener at least eight --Inches long; but their tipple was innocuous Pepsi Cola.
+The Opposition too had glasses and a huge red bottle-opener at least eight inches long; but their tipple was innocuous Pepsi Cola.
-Ardill stressed the importance of experience, of long acquaintance with the
-bush, of the knowledge of map-reading and bushcraft practised as a matter of course by all ,Older Members. The Club simply could not function without them.
+Ardill stressed the importance of experience, of long acquaintance with the bush, of the knowledge of map-reading and bushcraft practised as a matter of course by all Older Members. The Club simply could not function without them.
-Master Knightley who had been diligently taking notes ("The yo nEer generation are learning' to write" muttered a Government member) replied in erudite style, quoting the Oxford Dictionary at' somelength to support his definition of old' -
-fallen into decay, Old Nick, etc. He was dressed schoolboy fashion in a small grey
+Master Knightley who had been diligently taking notes ("The younger generation are learning to write" muttered a Government member) replied in erudite style, quoting the Oxford Dictionary at some length to support his definition of old - fallen into decay, Old Nick, etc. He was dressed schoolboy fashion in a small grey flannel cap and striped blazer above grey longs, and struck many telling blows for the Opposition.
-flannel cap and striped blazer above greY longs, and struck many telling blows for the Opposition.
-'The-second Government. speaker was Mr., or, rather Mrs. Hallstrom, tastefully arrayedan a green frock -with chapeau to match (more or less), trimmed with mauve flowers. 'Ear rings and a wedding ring were prominent features of her 'costume. She dwelt chiefly on the dangers besetting the younger generation in 'the informal atmospher of camp. It had been estimated that the interest of bushwalkers in sex amounted to only 5%: but ahl that 5: Older Menibers (she spoke with two daughters to her crodlt) were' conoGrned with less transient things. They were more stable. (As Master Wagg subsequently pointed out, she began by apologising far being a little hoarse.) They appmciated the beauties of the bush (non-human), of the flowers, of the birds and the bees (cheers); they adjured the Younger Members to beware of the love-bite.
+The second Government speaker was Mr., or, rather __Mrs__. Hallstrom, tastefully arrayed in a green frock with chapeau to match (more or less), trimmed with mauve flowers. Ear rings and a wedding ring were prominent features of her costume. She dwelt chiefly on the dangers besetting the younger generation in the informal atmosphere of camp. It had been estimated that the interest of bushwalkers in sex amounted to only 5%: but ah, that 5%! Older Members (she spoke with two daughters to her credit) were concerned with less transient things. They were more stable. (As Master Wagg subsequently pointed out, she began by apologising for being a little hoarse.) They appreciated the beauties of the bush (non-human), of the flowers, of the birds and the bees (cheers); they adjured the Younger Members to beware of the love-bite.
-Miss Pridham, looking charming in a youthful and revealing playsuit with a childish straw hat set well back on her bright locks, spoke in exotic Canadian accents 0
-no less charming, and unfolded a seemingly endless scroll of notes to bolster the
+Miss Pridham, looking charming in a youthful and revealing playsuit with a childish straw hat set well back on her bright locks, spoke in exotic Canadian accents no less charming, and unfolded a seemingly endless scroll of notes to bolster the points she made for the Opposition. On the Government side, one, at least, felt the impact of her personality, and as Mr. McGregor rose next to speak, his aside of "Howdy, honey!" to Miss Pridham was heard by all.
-points she made for the Opposition. On the Government side, one, at least, felt the impact of her personality, and as Mr. McGregor rose next to speak, his aside of "Howly, honey:" to Miss Pridham was heard by all.
-He wore a judicial wig of cottonwool,("this Cloudmaker effect" as one speaker
+He wore a judicial wig of cottonwool,("this Cloudmaker effect" as one speaker described it) and his matter was as weighty as his manner. "They speak of Old Buffers" he said. "What are buffers? According to Webster's Dictionary - "("No longer an authority" interjected the Opposition. "Well, it was in my young day" rejoined Mr. McGregor imperturbably) - "buffers are simply cushions to absorb the shock. No train on earth can run without buffers: similarly the Younger Members should be shielded and guided by those who know better. What do they mean by Older Members?" he asked. "A woman is as old as she looks, a man is old if he doesn't". Food had been mentioned, he continued, and the Opposition had said that, unlike gluttonous Older Members, they travelled light on dried apricots and a handful of Terry's Meal. All he could say (with a glance at Miss Pridham's slimness) was that they were underfed.
-described it) and his matter was as weighty as his manner. "They speak of Old
--
-Buffers" he said. "What are buffers? According to Webster's Dictionary - "("No longer an authcrity" interjected the Opposition. "Well, it was in my young day" rejoined Mr. McGregor imperturbably) - "buffers are simply cushions to absorb the shock. NO train on earth can run without buffers: similarly the Younger Members should be shielded and guided by those who know better. What do they mean by Older Members?" he asked. "A woman is as old as she looks, a man is old if he doesn't". Food had been mentioned, he continued, and the )pposition had said that, unlike gluttonous Older Members, they travelled light on dried apricots and a handful of Terry's Meal. All he could say (with a glance at Miss Pridham's slimness) was that they were underfed.
 Master Gee Wagg (Opposition) was the last to speak, and dazzled us with statistics. It had been proved, he said, that Younger Members walked some 5,000 miles, including nautical miles, while the Old Buffers tottered only 300. He quoted figures till our heads reeled and his arguments were unanswerable.
-Saidt-Revin Ardill, halo still nodding, summed up for the Government, and
-Master Khightley did the same for the Opposition. "It is better" he said, with a look of disgust at the Government "to be underfed than to be over-drunk".
+Saint Kevin Ardill, halo still nodding, summed up for the Government, and Master Knightley did the same for the Opposition. "It is better" he said, with a look of disgust at the Government "to be underfed than to be over-drunk".
-The President put the matter to the vote and - well, the Older Members made
-more noise.
+The President put the matter to the vote and - well, the Older Members made more noise.
-The debate was over. Mr. McGregor hastened round, bottle in hand, to the Opposition's side of the stage, and lovingly escorted Miss Pridham to the inner
-sanctum of the club kitchen. Indeed his thole bearing was reminiscent of the learned Judge in Trial by Jury, who made off with the youthful plaintiff.
+The debate was over. Mr. McGregor hastened round, bottle in hand, to the Opposition's side of the stage, and lovingly escorted Miss Pridham to the inner sanctum of the club kitchen. Indeed his whole bearing was reminiscent of the learned Judge in Trial by Jury, who made off with the youthful plaintiff.
-Mr. Ardill, gathering up his robes, gave his arm to "Mrs." Hallstrom, Who flounced out swaying her green skirts and clutching an umbrella.
-The Social Secretary (Edna Garrad) proposed 'a vote of thanks to those who had so ably entertained us, and another happy evening ended.
+Mr. Ardill, gathering up his robes, gave his arm to "Mrs." Hallstrom, who flounced out swaying her green skirts and clutching an umbrella.
-LONDON LETTERS.
-From Lyn Baber
+The Social Secretary (Edna Garrad) proposed a vote of thanks to those who had so ably entertained us, and another happy evening ended.
-"Really life and work and everything over here is so much the same as it is in
-Sydney that I really feel quite at home. I'm working for a magazine, similar to Woman's Day, in a street just off the famous Fleet Street with the Old Baily just
+----
-around the corner and St. Paul's Cathedral just up the hill. It is quite commonplace
-to wander along the Strand or meet someone at Piccadilly Circus or Charing Cross, but
+===== London Letters. =====
-I OD still get a thrill miaking back over Waterloo Bridge with the chimes of Big Ben almost deafening you, after a Sunday Evening Concert at the Royal Festival Hall or the Old Vic.
-Because of the printing strike I gat an unexpected week's holiday so up With
+__From Lyn Baber:__
-my rucksack and off: Cornwall was my destination - beaches, the sea, the open air, and the road. It was a combination bus, walking and hitching holiday - mostly hitching when I was confident enough. People were so marvellously kind and helpful
-that I felt I could tackle anything. I came back all burnt brown again, but it is gradually peeling off.
+"Really life and work and everything over here is so much the same as it is in Sydney that I really feel quite at home. I'm working for a magazine, similar to Woman's Day, in a street just off the famous Fleet Street with the Old Baily just around the corner and St. Paul's Cathedral just up the hill. It is quite commonplace to wander along the Strand or meet someone at Piccadilly Circus or Charing Cross, but I do still get a thrill walking back over Waterloo Bridge with the chimes of Big Ben almost deafening you, after a Sunday Evening Concert at the Royal Festival Hall or the Old Vic.
-.
-All the pals I travelled over here mith are scattered far and wide - on the Continent, Scotland, India and Teheran, and Bookie has acquired a bicycle and at the moment is "somewhere in England". I am the only one still slaving in London, but I have 9ne consolation - I have just acquired a Lambretta - my pride and joy. I decided to have a practise drive the other day and when turning around mounted the footpath and nearly went through someone's fence, so I hurriedly put it away before I caused any major damage. But I'll conquer it yet.
+Because of the printing strike I got an unexpected week's holiday so up with my rucksack and off! Cornwall was my destination - beaches, the sea, the open air, and the road. It was a combination bus, walking and hitching holiday - mostly hitching when I was confident enough. People were so marvellously kind and helpful that I felt I could tackle anything. I came back all burnt brown again, but it is gradually peeling off.
-I've no plans for coming home yet but it mould be fun to see all the old gang again."
-From Eric Pegram:
+All the pals I travelled over here with are scattered far and wide - on the Continent, Scotland, India and Teheran, and Bookie has acquired a bicycle and at the moment is "somewhere in England". I am the only one still slaving in London, but I have one consolation - I have just acquired a Lambretta - my pride and joy. I decided to have a practise drive the other day and when turning around mounted the footpath and nearly went through someone's fence, so I hurriedly put it away before I caused any major damage. But I'll conquer it yet.
-"The main topic of conversation seems to be the weather but actually it's not
-too bad. We have only had one wet day and one really bad fog. In the fog 20 people were killed in road accidents and 18 girls were attacked. So I guess the moral is there is more chance of being killed in a fog than attacked - so why buy a car??
+I've no plans for coming home yet but it would be fun to see all the old gang again."
-The other main topic of conversation seams to be cricket so as soon as it's discovered I'm Australian I invent an urgent appointment elsewhere.
-It's a funny arrangement getting a job here. You ring up - he sayd to call on such and such a date a week or so later - you go in and see him - he writes in a few days to say you've got the job, rate of pay and to R.S.V.P. - you write back and accept the jcb and rate of pay - he -writes back to say when to start - what a lot of boloney. You've almost got to swear you are staying in England for good. I feel like making them swear they'll keep me on for a year.
+__From Eric Pegram__:
-I saw a funny incident last week that really tickled me. I went for a walk around the suburbs to the Zoo and Primrose Hill and further on to Hampstead Heath. I got lost a few times getting there but it reminded me something of Norton's Basin on the Warragamba. Soon I came upon a pond on a crest of a hill and as the breeze was pretty stiff there were quite a few model yacht racing events. Well - I hear this revving up of a small motor and there I see a young bloke with a sparkling new boat with a propeller, sort of aeroplane style, at the back. It keeps spluttering and burping till he finally got it right and lowered it into the -vaster very gently. The boat took off with a mhishshshsh and he started running with his eyes glued to the boat. I could see he wouldn't make it and started laughing. On he ran and fell in the icy -water - I laughed louder. The boat crashed into the other side and sank. I almost split myself. While others were giving me dirty looks and being sympathetic to the bloke I was wiping the tears from my eys. It looked so much like something Charlie Chaplin mould do.
-"Where I'm working I'm the only one who can fit, turn, weld and mill and the "Govinar" thinks I'm "smashing". He hasn't asked just What I'm smashing.
+"The main topic of conversation seems to be the weather but actually it's not too bad. We have only had one wet day and one really bad fog. In the fog 20 people were killed in road accidents and 18 girls were attacked. So I guess the moral is there is more chance of being killed in a fog than attacked - so why buy a car??
+The other main topic of conversation seems to be cricket so as soon as it's discovered I'm Australian I invent an urgent appointment elsewhere.
+It's a funny arrangement getting a job here. You ring up - he sayd to call on such and such a date a week or so later - you go in and see him - he writes in a few days to say you've got the job, rate of pay and to R.S.V.P. - you write back and accept the job and rate of pay - he writes back to say when to start - what a lot of boloney. You've almost got to swear you are staying in England for good. I feel like making them swear they'll keep me on for a year.
+I saw a funny incident last week that really tickled me. I went for a walk around the suburbs to the Zoo and Primrose Hill and further on to Hampstead Heath. I got lost a few times getting there but it reminded me something of Norton's Basin on the Warragamba. Soon I came upon a pond on a crest of a hill and as the breeze was pretty stiff there were quite a few model yacht racing events. Well - I hear this revving up of a small motor and there I see a young bloke with a sparkling new boat with a propeller, sort of aeroplane style, at the back. It keeps spluttering and burping till he finally got it right and lowered it into the water very gently. The boat took off with a whishshshsh and he started running with his eyes glued to the boat. I could see he wouldn't make it and started laughing. On he ran and fell in the icy water - I laughed louder. The boat crashed into the other side and sank. I almost split myself. While others were giving me dirty looks and being sympathetic to the bloke I was wiping the tears from my eys. It looked so much like something Charlie Chaplin would do.
+"Where I'm working I'm the only one who can fit, turn, weld and mill and the "Gov'nor" thinks I'm "smashing". He hasn't asked just what I'm smashing.
 Did you hear about the ageing secretary who felt she was on her last lap?
-When applying for a job I was asked my address. I said Acton
-He asked: Acton Common ??
+When applying for a job I was asked my address. I said: Acton. He asked: Acton Common?? I said: Only occasionally."
-I said: Only occasionally."
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-.;-.BUSH ARTISTS.
+=== Sanitarium Health Food and Vegetarian Cafe. ===
+Warmer weather callf for a change in your food-list. But the Sanitarium Shop caters for all seasons. So call in and make yourself familiar with out wide range of food products suitable for the bushwalker.... whatever the weather!
+Hunter St., Sydney. BW1725.
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+===== Bush Artists. =====
 Clarice Morris.
-During these spring wildflower walks when one usually has time to pause and admire our native flowers in almost garden profusion, it is not unusual in the Sydney Hawkesbury sandstone area to come upon fine exaMples ,of aboriginal rock art.
-Whatever you may think of the abilities of the aboriginal in his natural state it is impossible to deny him certain human talents similar to air own. He, like us, ex/Dresses his desires and experience through art. He also dances, sings, carves and paints, but the type of art with which we are most familiar, is the rock carvings we see scattered on those mostly high, flat rock surfaces.
+During these spring wildflower walks when one usually has time to pause and admire our native flowers in almost garden profusion, it is not unusual in the Sydney Hawkesbury sandstone area to come upon fine examples of aboriginal rock art.
-The subjects vary in different regions, whether we speak of our local district, or of the thole of the Continent. For instance, marine subjects are much more commc near the coast; some tribes depicted them, others did not. Again, though some inland tribes ate river fish, they never presented them in their art. Strangely enough though such animals at the platypus, koala, wombat, possum, birds, are not often seen, the spiny ant-eater is not uncommon, while the wallaby and the kangaroo are hot favourites. Flowers and shellfish are among the rarest objects depicted in rock art, because they were considered to belong to the realm of women, and believe it or not, there was nothing effeminate about being an aboriginal artist. That was a man's work. Something like being a monumental mason, I guess. As so much of the aboriginal art had to do with native laws, ritual, fertility, and hunting for bigger rrne, perhaps the reason for the division of labour is easy to understand.
-HEALTH FOOD SHOP GA4VEGETARIAN CAF[
+Whatever you may think of the abilities of the aboriginal in his natural state it is impossible to deny him certain human talents similar to our own. He, like us, expresses his desires and experience through art. He also dances, sings, carves and paints, but the type of art with which we are most familiar, is the rock carvings we see scattered on those mostly high, flat rock surfaces.
-'WARMER WEATHER
-CALLS FOR A CHANGE IN YOUR FOOD-LIST :  BUT THE
+The subjects vary in different regions, whether we speak of our local district, or of the whole of the Continent. For instance, marine subjects are much more common near the coast; some tribes depicted them, others did not. Again, though some inland tribes ate river fish, they never presented them in their art. Strangely enough though such animals as the platypus, koala, wombat, possum, birds, are not often seen, the spiny ant-eater is not uncommon, while the wallaby and the kangaroo are hot favourites. Flowers and shellfish are among the rarest objects depicted in rock art, because they were considered to belong to the realm of women, and believe it or not, there was nothing effeminate about being an aboriginal artist. That was a man's work. Something like being a monumental mason, I guess. As so much of the aboriginal art had to do with native laws, ritual, fertility, and hunting for bigger game, perhaps the reason for the division of labour is easy to understand.
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+There are exceptions, particularly in the Kimberleys, where Dr. Phyllis Kaberry, a girl I went to school with, discovered that the wife of a clan headman, goes along with her husband when he does a repaint job on a crocodile figure in a cave, to increase crocodile numbers. As in the Kimberley paintings and the Sydney-Hawkesbury rock engravings, the dominating forms are human and huge spirit beings. I remember going on a walk beginning at Mt. Kuring-gai and discovering not far from the railway line a huge spirit being. Leading away from this rock carving, in a northerly direction, I counted 32 footprints carved in the rock in a distance of about a quarter of a mile. I saw another lerge spirit being someway off the track near Kariong, out of Gosford. This could have been almost thirty feet long.
-HUNTER ST SYDNEY. BW1725.
-There are exceptions, particularly in the Kimberleys, where Dr. Phyllis aberry, a girl I went to school with, discovered that the wife of a clan headman, goes along with her husband when he does a repaint job on a crocodile figure in a cave, to
+The manner of their presentation is also very interesting. If you recall seeing any of these larger-than-life human figures, you will have noticed that they are always shown from the front. Mostly with arms outspread or above the head. The legs are usually apart. The fingers and toes, if present, look like forks, the hair like that of a model who had just received an electric shock. Sometimes the figures had phallic symbols and were used for instruction of the young, as is seen in the carvings (off the beaten track to visitors) at Muogamarra sanctury, not far from the Hawkesbury River.
-increase crocodile numbers. As in the Kimberley paintings and the Sydney-Hawkesbury rock engravings, the dominating forms are human and huge spirit beings. I remember
-going on a walk:beginning at Mt. Kuring-gai and discovering not far from the railway line a huge spirit being. Leading away from this rock carving, in a northerly direct-
+Animals are usually shown in profile. Whales and sharks usually have one (sometimes two) eyes showing, with a line for the mouth, and sometimes only one pair of limbs or fins, shown. Mammals such as the kangaroo were drawn in profile, but lizards, snakes, turtles, were depicted from above. It seems as though the rock artists depicted their subjects from the angle at which they most commonly saw them; they would see kangaroos hopping, emus running, but they would look down on a tortoise or a snake.
-ion, I minted 32 footprints carved in the rock in a distance of about a quarter of a
-mile, I saw another lerge spirit being, someway off the track near Kariong, out of Gosford. This could have been almost thirty feet long.
+In many respects aboriginal surface rock art in our district seems childlike, because no effort has been made to suggest body contours, feathers, fur, scales, or tones of body coverings. Still in other parts of Australia, the aboriginal artist did some very original work, with the MIMI stick people and the X-Ray fish, kangaroos and birds.
-The manner of their presentation is also very interesting. If you recall seeing any of these larger-than-life human figures, you will have noticed that they are always Shown from the front. Mostly with arms outspread or above the head. The legs are usually apart. The fingers and toes, if present, look like forks, the hair like that of a model who had just received an electric Shock. Sometimes the figures had phallic symbols and were used for instruction of the young, as is seen in the carvings (off the beaten track to visitors) at MUogamarra sanctury, not far from the Hawkesbury River.
-Animals are usually shown in profile. Whales and sharks usually have one (sometimes two) eyes showing, with a line for the mouth, and sometimes only one pair of limbs or fins, shown. Mammals such as the kangaroo were drawn in profile, but lizards, snakes, turtles, were depicted from above. It seems as though the rock artists depicted their subjects from the angle at which they most commonly saw them; they lmad see kangaroos hopping, emus running, but they would look down on a tortoise or a snake.
+These MIMI stick figures of the north are in striking contrast to the huge figures on the Hawkesbury sandstone. Perhaps the fact that even adjacent tribes often had a distinctly different artistic history, accounts for this pattern of contrast. But no matter what part of Australia you travel and search for aboriginal paintings or carvings, you will find an all-over talent for telling a pictorial story. It may be the story of spearing kangaroos in Dufgy's Forest, of a whale feast in Muogamarra Sanctuary, or the trail of an Emu hunt in the big gallery in the red cave at Mootwingee, in far western N.S.W.
-In many respects aboriginal surface rock art in our district seems childlike, because no effort has been made to suggest body contours, feathers, fur, scales, or tones of body coverings. Still in other parts of Australia, the aboriginal artist did Some very original work, with the MINI stick people and the X-Ray fish, kangaroos and birds.
-These Milt stick figures of the north are in striking contrast to the huge figures an the Hawkesbury sandstone. Perhaps the fact that even adjacent tribes often had a distinctly different artistic history, accounts for this pattern of contrast. But no matter what part of Australia you travel and search for aboriginal paintings or carvings, you will find an all-over talent for telling a pictorial story. It may be the story of spearing kangaroos in Dufgy's Forest, of a whale feast in Muogamarra Sanctuary, or the trail of an Emu hunt in the big gallery in the red
+We are particularly lucky to be doing so much of our bush walking in the Sydney-Hawkesbury district, because anthropologists believe that in the heavily dissected plateau where one finds numerous fairly flat rock surfaces, there are more engravings, more carved outlines than in any other part of the world. They believe there are close on 4,000 figures, a wonderful record of the aboriginals long occupation of the area and an enduring museum of his culture - if vandals don't discover their whereabouts, or water erosion leach them away for ever.
-cave at Mootmingee, in far western N.S.W.
-We are particularly lucky to be doing so much of our bush walking in the SydneyHawkesbury district, because anthropologists believe that in the heavily dissected
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-plateau where one finds numerous fairly flat rock surfaces, there are more engravings,
-more carved outlines than in any other part of the world. They believe there are
+__Nature lovers__: Watch for the "Nature Conservation" Photographic Exhibition at Kodak's
-close on 4,000 figures, a wonderful record of the aboriginals long occupation of the area and an enduring museum of his culture -- if vandals don't discover their
+November 11th - 21st.
-whereabouts, or water erosion leach them away for ever.
-NATURE LOVERS : Watch for the "Nhture Conservation" Photographic Exhibition at Kodak's
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+===== It Tastes Better Smoked By Others. =====
 Puffing Billy Bunter.
-It was with the utmost dyspepsia that I read the article s on food in the last rag. Mi.. Putt's terrific calorific analysis made me feel quite heated, while Mr. Hallstrom's thesis obviously came from the very kernel of the nuts.
-Food is not a science - it's a satisfaction: Personally, I've always taken a greater interest in other people's food lists than in my omn. There is really just - one good food law that we should teach our prospectives and that is this: the amount of food you need on a trip varies in inverse proportion to the number of people accampanying you.
+It was with the utmost dyspepsia that I read the articles on food in the last rag. Mr. Putt's terrific calorific analysis made me feel quite heated, while Mr. Hallstrom's thesis obviously came from the very kernel of the nuts.
-Have you ever tried sitting by someone's fire and watching them enjoy their
-food, hungrily passing your tongue over your lips from time to time and making remarks about your flinthearted landlady who sent you out into the wilds unfed? Have you seen how they grow fidgety, how the gourmet gleam seems to fade from their gyes until, with brimming tears they say "There's really too much for me here. Could you finish it off?'
+Food is not a science - it's a satisfaction. Personally, I've always taken a greater interest in other people's food lists than in my own. There is really just one good food law that we should teach our prospectives and that is this: the amount of food you need on a trip varies in inverse proportion to the number of people accompanying you.
-Ai d it tastes so much better when it's tainted by the smoke of someone else's - fire.
-I remember the time when I led a walk on which my sole companions were three
+Have you ever tried sitting by someone's fire and watching them enjoy their food, hungrily passing your tongue over your lips from time to time and making remarks about your flinthearted landlady who sent you out into the wilds unfed? Have you seen how they grow fidgety, how the gourmet gleam seems to fade from their eyes until, with brimming tears they say "There's really too much for me here. Could you finish it off?"
-very eligible lady walker s. By some strange mischance, my. only food for the weekend
-.
+And it tastes so much better when it's tainted by the smoke of someone else's fire.
-was a bottle of rum - but even so, I found it hard to suppress a burp after every meal.
-No, if you want to eat well on walks, don't carry four thousand oalories or a cucumber skin with you - just study what the others are eating; there's always someone -with too much.
+I remember the time when I led a walk on which my sole companions were three very eligible lady walkers. By some strange mischance, my only food for the weekend was a bottle of rum - but even so, I found it hard to suppress a burp after every meal.
-CHRISTMAS CARDS FOR BUSHIES.
+No, if you want to eat well on walks, don't carry four thousand calories or a cucumber skin with you - just study what the others are eating; there's always someone -with too much.
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+=== Christmas cards for bushies. ===
 The National Parks Association has produced a high quality Christmas Card featuring a scene in Blue Gum Forest. Give your friends a treat (and help publicise the N.P.A.) by using these cards this Christmas.
 Price 1/3d. each.
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-For supplies: Contact Tom Mbppett - 118873.
+For sample: See Club Notice Board. For supplies: Contact Tom Moppett - JA8873.
-KOSCIUSKO CROCKS.
-Stuart Brookes Ron Knightley
+----
-Bill Bourke -(old member) - injured eye.
-- broken shoulder - 5 slope, easy sngw,. using his wife's skis.
+=== Kosciusko Crocks. ===
-broken tibia.
- OOOOO
+Stuart Brookes (old member) - injured eye.
-INSTRUCTIONAL ON THE.COLO.
+Ron Knightley - broken shoulder - 5° slope, easy snow, using his wife's skis.
+Bill Bourke - broken tibia.
+----
+=== Instructional on the Colo. ===
 A well attended, well organised informal affair. Swimming, a canoe, and a rubber dinghy plus some climbing added interest. (So did the presence of two representatives of a woman's magazine.) Supper was provided by the leader.
 Good on yer, Snow!
-WALKING TRIAL (12 hours).
-.ght parties entered and interesting routes were taken, e g. Kanangra - cross Kawmung, Scott's Main Range - Cookem - Black Dog; Jenolan - Harry's River - Breakfast Creek.
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+=== Walking trial (12 hours). ===
+Eight parties entered and interesting routes were taken, e.g. Kanangra - cross Kawmung, Scott's Main Range - Cookem - Black Dog; Jenolan - Harry's River - Breakfast Creek.
 It all ended in a campfire at Carlon's on Saturday night, followed by a spinebash on Sunday.
-lalgiu WEEKEND.
-On the Wollondi117 18 members (plus 13 kids) Some showers, but not enough to
+----
-dampen spirits.
-Jack Perry had 7 in his Ti Willa party (mist again, swam the Col:again; you'd
+=== The long weekend. ===
-almost think it was Easter).
-Other parties to the-Tinderry's (fine on Monday, Alpine vistas), Wee Jasper (no details), Newnes (N.P.A.), Mangrove Mountain area (very, wet), Kosciusko (now.
+On the Wollondi11y 18 members (plus 13 kids) - some showers, but not enough to dampen spirits.
-.
-"THE RATES WERE DELICIOUS"
+Jack Perry had 7 in his Ti Willa party (mist again, swam the Cox again; you'd almost think it was Easter).
-or
-"DING DONG YOUR. DINNER"
+Other parties to the Tinderry's (fine on Monday, Alpine vistas), Wee Jasper (no details), Newnes (N.P.A.), Mangrove Mountain area (very wet), Kosciusko (snow).
-Written by J.W. for Eileen,
-Snow, George and Yarmak.
+----
-It was all Snow's fault. But then it always is. He suggested White's River Hut and as I had had two goes at getting there, I said whaoko!:
-Yarmak and I went down to Cooma on the Midnight Horror (alias the Koszi Snow Express) and met Snow, George and Eileen at the Hotel site early Saturday morning; well, it was 11 o'clock any-way, we loaded the food and gear into the oars and set off to Munyang Power Station.
+===== "The Rates Were Delicious" or "Ding Dong Your Dinner". =====
-While we were off-loading the food and sorting out how much light stuff we could each get into our respective packs and how much heavy stuff we could push off on to someone else, we were nearly run over by a large tourist bus which descended on us, belching black smoke and disgorging hundreds of tourists. They eyed us curiously, and
-our great pile of food incredulously. But there were five of us to eat it!
+Written by J.W. for Eileen, Snow, George and Yarmak.
-"We've got a steep climb up the Penstock:but after that its flat all the way, so
-we'll be there for tea" says Snow'. We groaned and tried to get above horizontal
+It was all Snow's fault. But then it always is. He suggested White's River Hut and as I had had two goes at getting there, I said whaoko!!
-under our packs and skis and dutifully trotted after him up the zigzag road. At 3.32 p m. the following day we arrived at White's River Hut.
-"There might be Rats here" says Snow. So when it was time for bed we did our packs Up tight, pulled our heads in and went to sleep on the mattresses on the floor. About 12 O'clock there was 'a bit of a rumpus among the fillies and things on the table.
+Yarmak and I went down to Cooma on the Midnight Horror (alias the Koszi Snow Express) and met Snow, George and Eileen at the Hotel site early Saturday morning; well, it was 11 o'clock any-way, we loaded the food and gear into the cars and set off to Munyang Power Station.
-I sat up' and looked around) but couldn't see a thing except a tin, which had obviously
-fallen off the table and was rocking slowly back and forth on the floor. 'Tram" I
+While we were off-loading the food and sorting out how much light stuff we could each get into our respective packs and how much heavy stuff we could push off on to someone else, we were nearly run over by a large tourist bus which descended on us, belching black smoke and disgorging hundreds of tourists. They eyed us curiously, and our great pile of food incredulously. But there __were__ five of us to eat it!
-thought "Rats". I struggled up and hopped over to the table to investigate, but didn't look in the pack Which was on the table in case a rat jumped out on top of me.
-Not a thing moved, not a sound anywhere, so abandoning the search, I went back:to the
+"We've got a steep climb up the Penstock but after that its flat all the way, so we'll be there for tea" says Snow. We groaned and tried to get above horizontal under our packs and skis and dutifully trotted after him up the zigzag road. At 3.32 p.m. the following day we arrived at White's River Hut.
-crack beside George in which I had been wedged. Once on your side and you couldn't move an inch.
-I had no sooner got comfortable when one of the plates fell onto the floor -with a crash and we all jumped upright, even Snow; but the Rat was gone, and after hanging
+"There might be Rats here" says Snow. So when it was time for bed we did our packs up tight, pulled our heads in and went to sleep on the mattresses on the floor. About 12 o'clock there was a bit of a rumpus among the dillies and things on the table. I sat up and looked around, but couldn't see a thing except a tin, which had obviously fallen off the table and was rocking slowly back and forth on the floor. Mmm" I thought "Rats". I struggled up and hopped over to the table to investigate, but didn't look in the pack which was on the table in case a rat jumped out on top of me. Not a thing moved, not a sound anywhere, so abandoning the search, I went back to the crack beside George in which I had been wedged. Once on your side and you couldn't move an inch.
-up the packs and plugging up one of the more obvious holes we all went back to bed.
-George had blocked up the hole with a tine and a large stone on top. For half an hour
+I had no sooner got comfortable when one of the plates fell onto the floor with a crash and we all jumped upright, even Snow; but the Rat was gone, and after hanging up the packs and plugging up one of the more obvious holes we all went back to bed. George had blocked up the hole with a tine and a large stone on top. For half an hour after the poor rat strained and grunted with exertion trying to get that rock off his hole and for spite came over and chewed Yarmak's flying helmet, which Yarmak happened to be wearing at the time.
-after the poor rat strained and grunted with exertion trying to get that rock off his
-hole and for spite came over and chewed Yarmak's flying helmet, which Yarmak happened. - to be Wearing at the time.
+The following day was mighty, with clear blue sky and marvellous snow. The boys went up to Dickey Cooper, Bogong, and gloated over the view and the fantastic rundown, while Eileen and I made a great job of messing up the slopes around the hut. That night was rather quiet with only one exchange between Snow and the Rat, with Snow relatively victorious.
-The following day was mighty, with clear blue sky- and marvellous snow. The boys went up to Dickey Cooper, Bogong, and gloated over the view and the fantastic rundown, while Eileen and I made a great job of messing up the slopes around the hut. That
-. night as rather quiet litith only one exchange between Snow and the Rat, with Snow relatively victorious.
+Tuesday saw us up fairly early and away to Tate. With skins on our skis the climb up to the tops was maggies meat.  From the tops (where we ate Loganberry Snow) we could see The Grey Mare Range, Twynam and then over the Murray Valley to Bogong in Victoria.
-Tuesday saw us up fairly early and away to Tate. With skins on our skis the climb up to the tops was maggies meat.  From the tops (where we ate Loganberry Snow) we could see The Grey Mare Range, TiArnam and then over the Murray Valley to Bogong in Victoria.
-After lunch which we ate on Tate's west ridge Eileen and I started back, as a storm was brewing, leaving Snow and George to complete the climb. The trip back in the gathering storm was very impressive. The mist gathered around us, enclosing us in a macld of silence, lifting only once to give us a magnificent view of Jagangal, lit with gold from the late sun, to a backdrop of angry blue black storm clouds. Yarmak greeted us back at the hut and very soon after Snow and George arrived, bePting the darkness by about half an hour.
+After lunch which we ate on Tate's west ridge Eileen and I started back, as a storm was brewing, leaving Snow and George to complete the climb. The trip back in the gathering storm was very impressive. The mist gathered around us, enclosing us in a world of silence, lifting only once to give us a magnificent view of Jagangal, lit with gold from the late sun, to a backdrop of angry blue black storm clouds. Yarmak greeted us back at the hut and very soon after Snow and George arrived, beating the darkness by about half an hour.
-Now Tuesday night was a crucial point in oar stay at White's River. Till then we and the Rats were just about even. One al. But that night we mere soundly beaten. After taking the usual precautions of hanging up packs and putting any good amay in the meat safe, we retired to bed, equipped with the usual accoutrements. Yarmak (who was sleeping on the floor) with a large axe handle, George, who was sleeping opposite him, with an old pair of boots, a large lump of mood and a torch. We all lay trying to be asleep when Snow, who had plugged up a Rathole near the head of his bed, whispered "My God, he's here chewing the paper". We still don't know if the Rat had run up the bedpost and was chewing it from Snow's side or not, but it upset Snow. On went the torch and two Rats ran for home, with Yarmak hastening their passage with a few shattering blows with the axe handle. We lay back:to see what they mould do next, and it wasn't long before out they came again. Whack, whack, in the wood pile. Whack in between the two beds. Bang, bang, bang. "Surely we got one that time, but no. Lay out some more bait.
-George sprinkled the floor and Yarmak liberally, but the Rat didn't even wait till we put the torch off. He raced out of a hole and gobbled some, so it was whack, whack, whack again. "That's a rude trick to play on a Dad" says Yarmak. "These Rates are beyond everything", says George, "we'll have to make a trap. Now if we use one of those four gallon drums and suspend it from the ceiling and have a trigger mechanism, so that when the Rat chews through it, down comes the dram". Snigg-pg-er. We were all listening to George, and so was the Rat, but he had the hide to laugh.
+Now Tuesday night was a crucial point in oar stay at White's River. Till then we and the Rats were just about even. One all. But that night we were soundly beaten. After taking the usual precautions of hanging up packs and putting any good away in the meat safe, we retired to bed, equipped with the usual accoutrements. Yarmak (who was sleeping on the floor) with a large axe handle, George, who was sleeping opposite him, with an old pair of boots, a large lump of wood and a torch. We all lay trying to be asleep when Snow, who had plugged up a Rathole near the head of his bed, whispered "My God, he's here chewing the paper". We still don't know if the Rat had run up the bedpost and was chewing it from Snow's side or not, but it upset Snow. On went the torch and two Rats ran for home, with Yarmak hastening their passage with a few shattering blows with the axe handle. We lay back to see what they would do next, and it wasn't long before out they came again. Whack, whack, in the wood pile. Whack in between the two beds. Bang, bang, bang. "Surely we got one that time, but no. Lay out some more bait.
-Meanmhile out in the main room the rest of the Rat family were having a glorious time sliding off the top of the meat safe and sharpening up their teeth on the gauze sides, preparatory to coming in and having a chew at us. For the rest of the night I slept soundly, but in the morning George informed us that they had used his bunk for a race track and even had the hide to chew at his hair.
-The following day was a rest day, when we gathered strength, and collected
+George sprinkled the floor and Yarmak liberally, but the Rat didn't even wait till we put the torch off. He raced out of a hole and gobbled some, so it was whack, whack, whack again. "That's a rude trick to play on a Dad" says Yarmak. "These Rates are beyond everything", says George, "we'll have to make a trap. Now if we use one of those four gallon drums and suspend it from the ceiling and have a trigger mechanism, so that when the Rat chews through it, down comes the drum". Snigg-gg-er. We were all listening to George, and so was the Rat, but he had the hide to laugh.
-amo to battle with the Rats. The trap was duly contrived, much to the horror of five
-bods from Guthega, who mere visiting at White's. They were so upset nt our Rat tales that they slept in the hut next door. After tea the traps were set 1 amidst great hilarity. It was absolutely impossible to get from the bunks to the outside door without getting your legs knocked from under you or your skull bashed in.
+Meanwhile out in the main room the rest of the Rat family were having a glorious time sliding off the top of the meat safe and sharpening up their teeth on the gauze sides, preparatory to coming in and having a chew at us. For the rest of the night I slept soundly, but in the morning George informed us that they had used his bunk for a race track and even had the hide to chew at his hair.
-We retired to bed and waited. Suddenly one of the traps crashed down and everyone jumped out of their sleeping bags and rushed into the other room. Festering; it was a false alarm. So it was back:to bed, and I think everyone went to sleep very soon after:
-In the morning when we awoke no one bothered to look at the traps, having heard no more crashes during the night. Snow was the first one to go into the main room, and pick his way between the traps towards the main door. Suddenly he yelled "We've got one". No one paid much attention to him as we thought it was a new way of getting us out of bed. We still ignored him when he reappeared into view looking most triumphant; but George's curiosity overcame him and he also vent to look.
+The following day was a rest day, when we gathered strength, and collected amo to battle with the Rats. The trap was duly contrived, much to the horror of five Y.M.C.A. bods from Guthega, who were visiting at White's. They were so upset at our Rat tales that they slept in the hut next door. After tea the traps were set amidst great hilarity. It was absolutely impossible to get from the bunks to the outside door without getting your legs knocked from under you or your skull bashed in.
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+We retired to bed and waited. Suddenly one of the traps crashed down and everyone jumped out of their sleeping bags and rushed into the other room. Festering; it was a false alarm. So it was back to bed, and I think everyone went to sleep very soon after.
-BM2685
-Exclamations of amazement finally brought us into the roan and there was a Rat in our trap and funnily enough it was the very trap that the Rat had laughed at the night
+In the morning when we awoke no one bothered to look at the traps, having heard no more crashes during the night. Snow was the first one to go into the main room, and pick his way between the traps towards the main door. Suddenly he yelled "We've got one". No one paid much attention to him as we thought it was a new way of getting us out of bed. We still ignored him when he reappeared into view looking most triumphant; but George's curiosity overcame him and he also went to look.
--before.
-Thursday morning was memorable because not only did we catch a Rat but we also climbed Gungarten and visited Tin Hut and were home for afternoon tea. The view from the top of Gungarten was well worth the climb up: the range was clear and glistening
+Exclamations of amazement finally brought us into the room and there was a Rat in our trap and funnily enough it was the very trap that the Rat had laughed at the night before.
-in the early sun and the air was as pure and cold as crystal. The run down was fun especially over the small waves of ice on the saddle. Tin Hut was nearly buried and as the snow had come in on one side we didn't linger long over lunch.
-Friday morning we all departed from White's River with light packs and heavy
+Thursday morning was memorable because not only did we catch a Rat but we also climbed Gungarten and visited Tin Hut and were home for afternoon tea. The view from the top of Gungarten was well worth the climb up: the range was clear and glistening in the early sun and the air was as pure and cold as crystal. The run down was fun especially over the small waves of ice on the saddle. Tin Hut was nearly buried and as the snow had come in on one side we didn't linger long over lunch.
-hearts. The sun shone brilliantly and the snow crackled under our boots as we walked up to the tops for the last time. Just before the run down to Guthega (where we were fed coffee and bun loaf at the Y.M.C.A. Hut) we stopped for a brief rest and a final look.
-.1==wanw
+Friday morning we all departed from White's River with light packs and heavy hearts. The sun shone brilliantly and the snow crackled under our boots as we walked up to the tops for the last time. Just before the run down to Guthega (where we were fed coffee and bun loaf at the Y.M.C.A. Hut) we stopped for a brief rest and a final look.
-BLOSSOMS AND BUL1JOES.
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+===== Blossoms And Bulljoes. =====
 Puffing Billy.
-On Everest, they say, it's not the number of steps between breaths that counts,
-but the number cf breaths per step, and so it was on Len Fall's wild-flower walk
+On Everest, they say, it's not the number of steps between breaths that counts, but the number of breaths per step, and so it was on Len Fall's wild-flower walk down Engadine Creek last month. "Combined outing with N.P.A." said the announcement innocently - but it didn't say that the S.B.W. contingent of 11 members, 4 bunyips would be mixed up with 70 N.P.A. types, making a total of over 90, including kids and canines!!!
-dawn Engadine Creek last month. 'Combined outing with N.P.A." said the announcement
-innocently - but it didn't say that the S.13.11T. contingent of 11 members, 4 bunyips would be. mixed up with 70 N.P.A. types, making a total of over 90, including kids and
+You know the traffic jams that occur at The Cross, when you wait interminable minutes with the traffic at a standstill and then proceed at the merest crawl? Ditto on the wild-flower walk. But have you experienced the sensation of standing still in the bush for five minutes and then discovering that you were in the midst of a colony of red bulljoes which have meanwhile migrated up your legs, underneath your long slacks? Under such circumstances, do you know how many fearsome bites can be delivered in ten seconds? Do you know how loud the average human being can yell? Do you know how high the average human being can jump? Don't ask the Olympians - ask us.
-canines:
-Ybu know the traffic jams that occur at The Cross, when you wait interminable minutes with the traffic at a standstill and then proceed at the merest crawl? Ditto on the wild-flower walk. But have you experienced the sensation of standing still
+Frank Ashdown covered dozens of miles, dashing thither and yon with a bottle of antvenene. We noticed that he never removed the cork as he dabbed it on alleged bites. Was this Ashdown thrift or psychotherapy? When an N.P.A. victim commented on his foresight in bringing his antibite, Frank's only reply was "Actually, there's lots of ants in our club".
-in the bush for five minutes and then discovering that you were in the midst of a colony of red bulljoes which have meanwhile migrated up'your legs, underneath your
-long slacks? Under such circumstances, do you know haw many fearsome bites can be delivered in ten seconds? Do you know how loud the average human being can yell? Do you know how high the average human being can jump? Don't ask the Olympians -
+The wildflowers were good - Gompholobium, Breckia, Leguminosae, Philotheca, Boronia Serrulata - we know that those were the names, 'cos Phyllis Ratcliffe wrote them in a book as the man recited them. There were also waratahs, which we identified unaided. And we finally discovered that Edna Stretton wasn't saying "Hell, it's mighty". She was saying "Thelymitra".
-ask us.
-Frank Ashdown covered dozens ofmiles, dashing thither and yon with a bottle of antvenene. We noticed that he never removed the cork as he dabbed it on alle4ed
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-bites. Was this Ashdown thrift or psychotherapy? When an N.P.A. victim commented
-on hip foresight in bringing his aatibite, Frank's only reply was "Actually, there's lots of ants in our club".
-The wildflowers were good - Gompholobium, Breckia, Leguminosae, Philotheca,
-Boronia Serrulata - we know that those were the names, 'cos Phyllis Ratcliffe wrote
-than in a book as the nan recited them. There were also waratahs, which we identified
-unaided. And we finally discovered that Edna Stretton wasn't saying "Hell, it's mighty". She was saying "Thelymitra".
-.
 RECOMMENDED  TEST WALKS  MR OCTOBER.
 OCTOBER 16-17-la Picton - Car to Nattai Pass (Sheehy' s Creek). Camp on Nattai. Pleasant medium river walking along Nattai, tamp on river Saturdnight.
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 Available from Paddy this month - "Tasmanian Tramp" 1959. (Journal of Hobart Walking Club. )
 .
 JIM BROWN'S WALK.
 "The Gent in the Tent".
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 Phil Hall Wal Moore
 Kevin Ardill Geoff Ley. Alan Round
-I have often heard articles about various walks criticised because vital statistics about the excursion are nat included in the story. Personally, I can't see that it matters much, especially if the account is well written. However, for the benefit of the curious, and those members who promised Jim that they would came and didn't turn up, the information is published above.
-Now to the story. As I was packing an the Friday night prior to the walk a knock'came to the door. The time was about 8.45 p m. Rather late for social visiting, but in these mAern times, one has to be prepared for any eventuality. Open the door and Jim Brown stands revealed: Kath is ill and he would not be able to take the walk tomorrow. Would I do the honours? Of course, especially as he produced a Mittagong map marked with his intended route. I hadn't been on the Upper Nattai River before. That is why I had 'phoned Jim during the week and announced my intention of going. I also knew (hoped?) that Kevin Ardill mould be going, and felt that surely the two of us could put up some sort of a show at map reading and not disappoint the ten starters who had no Jim that they'd be attending.
+I have often heard articles about various walks criticised because vital statistics about the excursion are not included in the story. Personally, I can't see that it matters much, especially if the account is well written. However, for the benefit of the curious, and those members who promised Jim that they would came and didn't turn up, the information is published above.
+Now to the story. As I was packing an the Friday night prior to the walk a knock came to the door. The time was about 8.45 p m. Rather late for social visiting, but in these mAern times, one has to be prepared for any eventuality. Open the door and Jim Brown stands revealed: Kath is ill and he would not be able to take the walk tomorrow. Would I do the honours? Of course, especially as he produced a Mittagong map marked with his intended route. I hadn't been on the Upper Nattai River before. That is why I had 'phoned Jim during the week and announced my intention of going. I also knew (hoped?) that Kevin Ardill mould be going, and felt that surely the two of us could put up some sort of a show at map reading and not disappoint the ten starters who had no Jim that they'd be attending.
 Saturday morning was dull anddrizzly, which probably accounted for the roll call
 of only eight for the 9.30 a m. Gouiburn train, including the deputy-leader and
 Alan Round, whose name was not on the "official" list,
-After an accordion recital of chiefly Gaelic airs by fellow passengers in highland dress, we changed to the rail motor at Picton. The recital was a pleasant change from music emitted by transistor radios so frequently inflicted upon helpless train
+After an accordion recital of chiefly Gaelic airs by fellow passengers in highland dress, we changed to the rail motor at Picton. The recital was a pleasant change from music emitted by transistor radios so frequently inflicted upon helpless train travellers, whether they wish to listen to it or not. The train crew were quite interested in our proposed excursion. I promised to see them at Hill Top tomorrow night with rather forced joviality.
-travellers, whether they wish to listen to it or not. The train crew were quite inteBested in our proposed excursion. I promised to see them at Hill Top tomorrow
-night with rather forced joviality.
 A cold westerly wind was blowing when we set out from Colo Vale, and it wasn't very long before the clouds came over with a promise ef snow. However, all wen got was a shower of sleet, and by the time we emerged from bush country at Colo settlement
 near Mr. Flora, it was bright and sunny. The country opens out very suddenly near
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 We were all up fairly early next morning and got away before 9 a m., after a very definite request that the party stay together to obviate the need for a search of large areas of the Valley by myself and my advisor, K.A. The Nattai Valley is very beautiful,
 in spite of evidence of heavy flooding about two weeks previously. The river bubbles and gurgles over the water worn rocks with occasional outcrops of pink granite. Then the water seems to lie in long green pools, reflecting the surrounding rocky outcrops
-and trees, flanked in parts by stretches of sand. It was necessary to cross several times when the bank became too steep on one side, and this led to some competition as to who could keep dry feet the longest. We traversed a couple of exbensive bracken- covered flats before reaching a really good camp site at Reeky Waterholes Creek soon after 10 a m.. All these flats were covered with holes leading to wombat warrens, and should be treated with caution, as a misplaced foct in one of these holes can cause serious sprain or -worse (shades of Peggy Bransdon;) and its a long way back to transport.
+and trees, flanked in parts by stretches of sand. It was necessary to cross several times when the bank became too steep on one side, and this led to some competition as to who could keep dry feet the longest. We traversed a couple of expensive bracken covered flats before reaching a really good camp site at Reeky Waterholes Creek soon after 10 a m.. All these flats were covered with holes leading to wombat warrens, and should be treated with caution, as a misplaced fact in one of these holes can cause serious sprain or -worse (shades of Peggy Bransdon;) and its a long way back to transport.
 I could now afford to relax a bit as the map shmed that we should reach McArthur 's Flat by noon. This was accomplished without difficulty, but the Lively river flat here r, has been severely mauled by a bushfire, and is only now recovering. Naturally, we had lunch here, in bright sunshine.
 The track up the point Jf the ridge from McArthur's Flat (Starlight's Trail) has been considerably washed out following denudation of the ridge by a bushfire. We spent some time looking for it in various steep gullies, until Kevin finally located it up toward the cliff line. We then made full use of it to finish the climb, even though it is not too clear in a couple of places and is overgrown by Hardenbergia vines re4dy to trip the unwary. Near the top, there are blazes on various strategic trees, made by the Coates boys we later found out, which are of considerable assistance in locating the route,
 Mr. Coates and two of the boys were doing some car repairs when we reached the top and stopped fa. a chat with them. Er. Coates told us of the bushfire which burnt right up from the Nattai River on 4th Nevember, 1957 destroying most of the bush in its progress. He also mentioned the adventures of a couple of overdue parties in the area. We set out frcm the farm at 3.45 p m. so as to be sure of catching the only train from Hill Top on Sunday night. We arrived at the station in good time to cook a couple of packaged soups and to have our ears bashed by a local while we "swipped" (the soup, of course). Train time came, we escaped from the basher for a quick trip back to the city.