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-IN DEBATABLE LAND.
+===== 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
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-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
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-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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+=== 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.