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Finally John announced that supper would be provided in the Club Room on several occasions each year, usually to coincide with a guest speaker. | Finally John announced that supper would be provided in the Club Room on several occasions each year, usually to coincide with a guest speaker. | ||
- | Frank Ashdown felt the Bonds investment was out of order as a General Meeting had not authorised it - the discussion at the Annual Meeting had only asked Committee to look into it. Others held it was an administrative decision proper to Committee. Finally Frank moved that no money be invested without sanction of the Club: there was no seconder and tho motion lapsed. | + | Frank Ashdown felt the Bonds investment was out of order as a General Meeting had not authorised it - the discussion at the Annual Meeting had only asked Committee to look into it. Others held it was an administrative decision proper to Committee. Finally Frank moved that no money be invested without sanction of the Club: there was no seconder and the motion lapsed. |
A supper Social Committee comprising Gordon Redmond, Ruth Constable, Barbara Evans, Muriel Goldstein, George Williams and Owen Marks was appointed. | A supper Social Committee comprising Gordon Redmond, Ruth Constable, Barbara Evans, Muriel Goldstein, George Williams and Owen Marks was appointed. | ||
- | Now the President sounded a dour-note. The Committee deplored the indiscreet drinking of liqor at the Reunion and particularly at the camp fire. Ron Knightley moved the Club's endorsement, | + | Now the President sounded a dour-note. The Committee deplored the indiscreet drinking of liquor |
Also, said the President, some cooking fires at the Reunion had not been fully extinguished. On a more cheerful note, the Committee had thanked Jack Perry for the provision of horse transport and the Farquhars for their work on children' | Also, said the President, some cooking fires at the Reunion had not been fully extinguished. On a more cheerful note, the Committee had thanked Jack Perry for the provision of horse transport and the Farquhars for their work on children' | ||
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===Tracks and Access Committee: | ===Tracks and Access Committee: | ||
- | Will meet at the Big Sister Rooms, Penfold Place at 6.30 p m. on June 6. A Club representative is required to attend. | + | Will meet at the Big Sister Rooms, Penfold Place at 6.30 p.m. on June 6. A Club representative is required to attend. |
===Kosciusko State Park:=== | ===Kosciusko State Park:=== | ||
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Nearing the Hacking River I called a halt and examined my right knee. It looked all right - perhaps a mite puffy and swollen, but it seemed to dislike taking my weight going downhill. Oh well, you can't expect to go hiking without a few bumps and abrasions! On to the Causeway where, at 3 p.m, we turned up river to follow the new road formation being cut through to Lilyvale - and thence to Bald Hill via Otford Gap. Lilyvale would suffice for us. | Nearing the Hacking River I called a halt and examined my right knee. It looked all right - perhaps a mite puffy and swollen, but it seemed to dislike taking my weight going downhill. Oh well, you can't expect to go hiking without a few bumps and abrasions! On to the Causeway where, at 3 p.m, we turned up river to follow the new road formation being cut through to Lilyvale - and thence to Bald Hill via Otford Gap. Lilyvale would suffice for us. | ||
- | I remember that most of our way along River Road was pleasant enough going. Only a few places - like the point where we had crossed in the morning - were badly fired, though there were smaller areas bearing | + | I remember that most of our way along River Road was pleasant enough going. Only a few places - like the point where we had crossed in the morning - were badly fired, though there were smaller areas bearing |
At one halt between the Helensburgh track and Lilyvale, Bill was bitten on the forearm by a bull ant. I explained from my fund of bush lore that the right thing to ease the pain was to find a frong of young bracken and squeeze the juice on the affected part. We did just this and because we were watching our times closely, discovered that the operation took seven or eight minutes. It was then I realised that, whether or not the bracken juice does any good, the whole messy business distracts the victim until the sting has eased anyway. | At one halt between the Helensburgh track and Lilyvale, Bill was bitten on the forearm by a bull ant. I explained from my fund of bush lore that the right thing to ease the pain was to find a frong of young bracken and squeeze the juice on the affected part. We did just this and because we were watching our times closely, discovered that the operation took seven or eight minutes. It was then I realised that, whether or not the bracken juice does any good, the whole messy business distracts the victim until the sting has eased anyway. | ||
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You will find it easiest when using Paddymade gear. | You will find it easiest when using Paddymade gear. | ||
- | Paddy Palling | + | Paddy Pallin |
109A Bathurst Street, 1st Floor, Cnr. George Street, Sydney. Phone 26-2685. | 109A Bathurst Street, 1st Floor, Cnr. George Street, Sydney. Phone 26-2685. | ||
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- | Bill (in best London Fog accent, purringly): "Your seat has been transferred to the rear comprtment. Let me carry your bag." | + | Bill (in best London Fog accent, purringly): "Your seat has been transferred to the rear compartment. Let me carry your bag." |
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The tea was just about ready when the old man came back - in a farmer' | The tea was just about ready when the old man came back - in a farmer' | ||
- | __Saturday, March 20th.__ The track led up a step ridge on top of which the stretcher track ran. We were to follow it to the east until it hit the Border track six miles away. The track ran up a steep grassy hill; a monstrous hill which separated us into two neat categories - sheep and goats. The stretcher track was very faint with only a blaze on a tree now and then to tell us we were on the thing at all. Several times we lost it and it proved very hard to find again. The staghorn and crowfeather ferns hung precariously in every tree, adding a strange beauty to the green void where the sun is almost a stranger. Lunch was taken in bits and pieces when we stopped for a rest or for a check of the map when marked tracks | + | __Saturday, March 20th.__ The track led up a step ridge on top of which the stretcher track ran. We were to follow it to the east until it hit the Border track six miles away. The track ran up a steep grassy hill; a monstrous hill which separated us into two neat categories - sheep and goats. The stretcher track was very faint with only a blaze on a tree now and then to tell us we were on the thing at all. Several times we lost it and it proved very hard to find again. The staghorn and crowfeather ferns hung precariously in every tree, adding a strange beauty to the green void where the sun is almost a stranger. Lunch was taken in bits and pieces when we stopped for a rest or for a check of the map when marked tracks |
- | We returned to our packs to find the others had not arrived, | + | We returned to our packs to find the others had not arrived, |
- | It was 5 when we got back to our packs. The evening meal was prepared with none of the trouble and interruptions of the previeus | + | It was 5 when we got back to our packs. The evening meal was prepared with none of the trouble and interruptions of the previous |
- | __Sunday March 21.__ Eight o' | + | __Sunday March 21.__ Eight o' |
__Monday, March 22.__ We were all up at dawn to prepare breakfast and then to admire the view. Moved off at seven. The graded track ended at Wagawn Lookout and it was a case of following tree blazes down to the bushrangers cave. The track was lost again while Brian and John stood in the middle of a Gympie patch trying to convince us that this was the right way. There was a giant stinging tree about five feet through and fully seventy feet high. We followed the track to the border gate and climbed back into NSW around eleven o' | __Monday, March 22.__ We were all up at dawn to prepare breakfast and then to admire the view. Moved off at seven. The graded track ended at Wagawn Lookout and it was a case of following tree blazes down to the bushrangers cave. The track was lost again while Brian and John stood in the middle of a Gympie patch trying to convince us that this was the right way. There was a giant stinging tree about five feet through and fully seventy feet high. We followed the track to the border gate and climbed back into NSW around eleven o' | ||
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We leap into the cars again and continue in the same direction, Duncan navigating by the Southern Cross which appears on our bow. The road suddenly ends at a T-shaped cross-road. This confuses our navigator more than somewhat and he goes round and round and round in circles with his flicker flicking till Wozziborn' | We leap into the cars again and continue in the same direction, Duncan navigating by the Southern Cross which appears on our bow. The road suddenly ends at a T-shaped cross-road. This confuses our navigator more than somewhat and he goes round and round and round in circles with his flicker flicking till Wozziborn' | ||
- | On we go through | + | On we go through |
We awake about 8 a.m. to see Digby arriving in his little car from Canberra. The party is roused out of bed. We cook breakfast and by 9 a.m. are whirling southwards again following Ross down a little-used country road to a station property called Khan Unis where we are to park the cars and the walking begins. But this can't come off without incident - (Remember, this is a Wyborn trip). Everyone has been told to follow on till they meet Ross's car parked on the road - "You can't go wrong!" | We awake about 8 a.m. to see Digby arriving in his little car from Canberra. The party is roused out of bed. We cook breakfast and by 9 a.m. are whirling southwards again following Ross down a little-used country road to a station property called Khan Unis where we are to park the cars and the walking begins. But this can't come off without incident - (Remember, this is a Wyborn trip). Everyone has been told to follow on till they meet Ross's car parked on the road - "You can't go wrong!" | ||
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Down by the river we wait around idly counting arrivals till Duncan shows up. " | Down by the river we wait around idly counting arrivals till Duncan shows up. " | ||
- | After repeated proddings ("Aw, nobody could go off a dead straight ridge" | + | After repeated proddings ("Aw, nobody could go off a dead straight ridge" |
Rosso didn't join us till after dark. He had gone back up the ridge to where we had last seen Charley, shouting all the way, and had poked his head in all the caves and sinkholes and hollered " | Rosso didn't join us till after dark. He had gone back up the ridge to where we had last seen Charley, shouting all the way, and had poked his head in all the caves and sinkholes and hollered " | ||
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+ | =====Don' | ||
- | DON'T READ THIS IT7S T WAY TO GET LOST! | ||
Chubb Harding. | Chubb Harding. | ||
- | (Chubb is a cheerful Prospective who has been out here 1:' | ||
- | about three 1u-BkD. The wild experiences he relatEt; here. happened on only his second or third bushwalk - Editor.) | ||
- | Didn't you see the title? Ittola you clearly not to read this rubbish. Put you are reading, so I might as well begin. | ||
- | The trouble all began on Ross i y-born' | ||
- | it seamed to hold me in a form of trance for what seemed to be a lifetime. Eventually thc snake made its mind up that it didnct feel like fresh meat today and wrig,-led off. This was just the beginning of the fun as you will see. | ||
- | That had become of Ross and the others was the next problem that hit me between the eyes. It seems so -easy When one is with the group to follow a bush track. No all alone the bush took on a new dimension. The trees and scrub had now turned into a wall around me. Calling out, | ||
- | Ira the far distance came back a faint reply. Following where I thought the | ||
- | sound had come from I went into the bush, but it was not very much like | ||
- | a track. The gums and scrub became, harder to get through with each step taken. Then under my feet I saw what locked like a snake. My first reaction was to scream and jump in the air. Only when it was too late did I see the snake turn out to be a 'Roo. rut I was already in orbit and about to crash land through a clump of thistles and bushes, so the fact that it was not a snake didn't help much The bushes collapsed under my weight and thistles stuck into my never mind. 7hen I came to, | ||
- | May, 1966 The ' | ||
- | my legs seamed to be hanging in the Ecir. Really it was no wonder for | ||
- | I had jumped into a pothole shaft ancl only my wedgeapadk holding me up. | ||
- | Eventually crawling out I kept on walking deeper down into the sides of the creek below. 435, now my mina had turned to what might happen if | ||
- | no one found me. I had thoughts of having to light fires at night all around me to keep the dingos at bay. The only thing was, woulq they | ||
- | find my charred remains in the morning? Saved: I could hear someone coming through the scrub. Then the big surprise - they turned out to be Canberra University Potholore. I had followed their ball which had in fact been meant for two of their members who had also gone astray. After talking things over they felt it would be unwise for me to carry on looking for the S.7.7.. till the morning. | ||
- | Making camp on the sloping bank of the creek, we then settled down around a fire for our dinner. Late into the night a discussion was held on what creature would have found me first. It wasn't so good to know | ||
- | how many. | ||
- | Parting company with a grand bunch of lads early in the morning, I made my way down to the end of the creek. Finding a clearing and then | ||
- | a track, I was nearly sure this would lead to Ross and Company. After walking only a short way who should appear round the next bond but Dot and Roger. Both at seeing me burst out with big s#les: I told them my | ||
- | tale of the events which lea up to my meeting them. Roger made off to call in the search parties. | ||
- | Maybe you might think you' | ||
- | but you're wrong for it can happen and it aid, but that's another tale. | ||
- | STOP PRESS!! | ||
- | The latest laett-^nr-, | ||
- | | ||
- | C/- Flat 2, 37 Primrose Gardens, Telsize Park, | ||
- | LONDON. N.7.3. | ||
- | e | ||
- | 21, The Sydney. Dushwalker May, 1966 | ||
- | PH.ILOSOPHY. | ||
- | .Frank Leyden. | ||
- | Philosophy as a subject comes from great antiquity. It means | ||
- | the love, study and purstof wisdom or of the knowledge of things and | ||
- | their causes. Such things may be theoretical or practical. The | ||
- | basis of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behinq and above all other knowledge we have or use. | ||
- | | ||
- | For any philosophy to be worth consideration it must be meant | ||
- | for anybody at all who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of the commoner and king alike and not something to be regarded with awe. | ||
- | The second principle of such a philosophy is that it must be capable of being applied. Learning locked away in antiquated books | ||
- | is not much value to anyone unless it can loe used. The Third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works. | ||
- | A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be | ||
- | crmmed down anybody' | ||
- | . what is true for him. Know Theyself .. and the truth shall set you free. | ||
- | Common man likes to be tippy and well. He likes to be able to understand things and he knows his route to freedom lies through knowledge. | ||
- | Scientology (Latin: Scioknowing, | ||
- | and thought, developed by a Doctor of Philosophy through the application of the Scientific Method to the Humanities. | ||
- | It is a new form of applied philosophy and bushwalkers often | ||
- | inclined to the philosophic vein, may be interest to join me in a visit to a Scientology Meeting. | ||
- | May, 1966 | ||
- | The Sydney Dushwalker 22, | ||
- | IMPORTANT NOTICE. TO 6USTONERS. | ||
- | NET ADDRESS:, | ||
- | 7e have a permanent display room at | ||
- | 1-62=a2=2.21112229 | ||
- | (100 yards from Gordon Railway Station) | ||
- | REGULAR TRADING HOURS: | ||
- | 7-30. - 10-00 p m. Tuesday ruld Thursday. (Other times by arrangement) | ||
- | TELPEHONE: 49-3329 | ||
- | NEW STOCKS: | ||
- | Ultra thick NZ Wool Shirts in Heavy Check Pattern - These have to be seen to be | ||
- | appreciated. $11.00 | ||
- | . Black Oiled Japara Parkas | ||
- | FAIRY DOWN: | ||
- | ANNOUNCEMENT : Everest and Explorer Sleeping Bags now come with optional Japara covering, | ||
- | LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU. | ||
- | |||
+ | (Chubb is a cheerful Prospective who has been out here from England only about three weeks. The wild experiences he relates here happened on only his second or third bushwalk - Editor.) | ||
+ | |||
+ | Didn't you see the title? It told you clearly not to read this rubbish. But you are reading, so I might as well begin. | ||
+ | |||
+ | The trouble all began on Ross Wyborn' | ||
+ | |||
+ | What had become of Ross and the others was the next problem that hit me between the eyes. It seems so easy when one is with the group to follow a bush track. Now all alone the bush took on a new dimension. The trees and scrub had now turned into a wall around me. Calling out, in the far distance came back a faint reply. Following where I thought the sound had come from I went into the bush, but it was not very much like a track. The gums and scrub became harder to get through with each step taken. Then under my feet I saw what looked like a snake. My first reaction was to scream and jump in the air. Only when it was too late did I see the snake turn out to be a 'Roo. But I was already in orbit and about to crash land through a clump of thistles and bushes, so the fact that it was not a snake didn't help much. The bushes collapsed under my weight and thistles stuck into my never mind. When I came to, my legs seamed to be hanging in the air. Really it was no wonder for I had jumped into a pothole shaft and only my wedged pack holding me up. Eventually crawling out I kept on walking deeper down into the sides of the creek below. By now my mind had turned to what might happen if no one found me. I had thoughts of having to light fires at night all around me to keep the dingos at bay. The only thing was, would they find my charred remains in the morning? Saved! I could hear someone coming through the scrub. Then the big surprise - they turned out to be Canberra University Potholors. I had followed their call which had in fact been meant for two of their members who had also gone astray. After talking things over they felt it would be unwise for me to carry on looking for the S.B.W. till the morning. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Making camp on the sloping bank of the creek, we then settled down around a fire for our dinner. Late into the night a discussion was held on what creature would have found me first. It wasn't so good to know how many. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Parting company with a grand bunch of lads early in the morning, I made my way down to the end of the creek. Finding a clearing and then a track, I was nearly sure this would lead to Ross and Company. After walking only a short way who should appear round the next bend but Dot and Roger. Both at seeing me burst out with big smiles. I told them my tale of the events which led up to my meeting them. Roger made off to call in the search parties. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Maybe you might think you can't got lost in one weekend twice, but you're wrong for it can happen and it did, but that's another tale. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Stop Press!!==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | The latest latest news of Snow Brown and Bill Ketas is that they were involved in a car accident somewhere in Yugoslavia. Bill ended up in hospital with a broken pelvis and internal injuries and Snow with shock etc. The address to send them messages of cheer is below - | ||
+ | |||
+ | C/- Flat 2, 37 Primrose Gardens, Belsize Park, London. N.W.3. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | =====Philosophy.===== | ||
+ | |||
+ | Frank Leyden. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Philosophy as a subject comes from great antiquity. It means the love, study and pursuit of wisdom or of the knowledge of things and their causes. Such things may be theoretical or practical. The basis of science or of religion comes from philosophy. It lies behind and above all other knowledge we have or use. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Customarily reserved for the halls of learning and the intellectual, | ||
+ | |||
+ | For any philosophy to be worth consideration it must be meant for anybody at all who wishes to reach for it. It is the servant of the commoner and king alike and not something to be regarded with awe. | ||
+ | |||
+ | The second principle of such a philosophy is that it must be capable of being applied. Learning locked away in antiquated books is not much value to anyone unless it can be used. The Third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works. | ||
+ | |||
+ | A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be crammed down anybody' | ||
+ | |||
+ | Common man likes to be happy and well. He likes to be able to understand things and he knows his route to freedom lies through knowledge. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Scientology (Latin: Scio - knowing, Greek: logos - study) is a system of organised axioms resolving problems of the spirit, life and thought, developed by a Doctor of Philosophy through the application of the Scientific Method to the Humanities. | ||
+ | |||
+ | It is a new form of applied philosophy and bushwalkers, | ||
+ | |||
+ | ---- | ||
+ | |||
+ | ====Important Notice To Customers.==== | ||
+ | |||
+ | New Address: We have a permanent display room at 1/69 Werona Avenue, Gordon (100 yards from Gordon Railway Station). | ||
+ | |||
+ | Regular trading hours: 7-30 - 10-00 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. (Other times by arrangement). | ||
+ | |||
+ | Telephone: 49-3329. | ||
+ | |||
+ | New Stocks: Ultra thick NZ Wool Shirts in Heavy Check Pattern - These have to be seen to be appreciated. $11.00. Black Oiled Japara Parkas. $15.00. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Fairy Down: Announcement: | ||
+ | |||
+ | Look forward to seeing you. |
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