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- | CONTENTS | + | ======The |
- | At Our Monthly 1.looting 2. | + | |
- | A Matter of Trains | + | |
- | Bushios in Barrington | + | |
- | Paddy' | + | |
- | A monthly bulletin of matters of interest to -tho Sydney | + | |
- | EDITOR 2 Ross ' | + | |
- | BUSIN7SS YLLEACIR ; Bill Burke, Coral Tree Drive, C' | + | |
- | SALTS AND SUBS Ramon U' | + | |
- | 2. Ti-r_Tri SIT:7Y BUSH7TATIC: | + | ===February |
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- | Januczy 15 | + | |
- | - 44 ,V . | + | |
- | The meetit', | + | |
- | and apologies from the President Pranl: Rigby, who i olida-ring 1 1r1ca. | + | |
- | Five new riembers 770:2e, welcomed; : | + | |
- | ...nutes of the last General 1:oeting (11 Dec.) :ere read and received. In " | + | |
- | In the matterof new club rooms; 0-.7enIZarks and 11a7mon i..T' | + | |
- | In " | + | |
- | family groups and ' | + | |
- | Marcaret Childs ( 1-)layrounc.-Is representative) 9 sent | + | |
- | cutting from a St. r..., eor.,7.c. j.; Sutherlqnd local paper, on the subject | + | |
- | of the bush on tlle 7..x3rizlet..2.1.. of the 'loyal 17,?,t o bed,rE Q,t.-.4 -410 Cl. | + | |
- | by the Council for recrettf.otaal space - oif courses, recz.eationa-4.- aro.s1 tc. The matter was passodover to the Cortva-zation to bring up at thenext meeting of the: | + | |
- | Bulletins and Bi--monthly 1.oports we:. e a,cimo flek.ex1 from the 3.Tational riaust the 1Tational Conservation Counoil. | + | |
- | In :...ns-er to r. letter from the Commonwealth 13a:k re Conversion | + | |
- | of Bonds the 1Torth31-.6._ Trust Funds - the rI: | + | |
- | reported_ that the .1 ,GO invested in Bonds maturincs. on I January 1969, has now 'peen transfe=ed to the next s:ries (Series 11), maturing in '! years time. | + | |
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- | as receiv::0,_ addressed to the Clu7p7 astin.7 that 'e forrprd it to the Gould LcaEuc.,- of 71ird " | + | |
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- | nbruary | + | |
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- | licazu.o is now d:: | + | =====Contents.===== |
- | Tree .0? | + | |
- | :.nd duly s cl on its wa-r. | + | | | |Page| |
- | 3. | + | |At Our Monthly Meeting| | 2| |
- | 1;7' | + | |A Matter of Trains|Kath McKay| 5| |
- | - report ' | + | |Bushies in Barrington|Margariet Wyborn| 7| |
- | rer.surt.;r s t This | + | |
- | closin-; balanca | + | =====Advertisements.===== |
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- | ed. 0117G cascusson. | + | | |Page| |
- | -iffhe Secretary gave 7.7.is | + | |Paddy' |
- | of the north's activities:" | + | |
- | Pat Harrison' | + | A monthly bulletin,of matters of interest to the Sydney Bush Walkers, Northcote Buildings, Reiby Place, Circular Quay, Sydney. Postal Address: Box 4476, G.P.O., Sydney. |
- | MOW' L-Lbout, and clinip')d two 67000 peaks. | + | |
- | contrastl' | + | |**Editor**|Ross Wyborn, |
- | n1.4^ 2 | + | |**Business Manager**|Bill Burke, Coral Tree Drive, Carlingford, |
- | on away earning no %eztoDe | + | |**Typist**|Heather Williams, 2 Sussex Street, Epping, 2121| |
- | s si s taint te, a 047,10,-.;i:.-, durirf.s; | + | |**Sales and Subs**|Ramon U'Brien, 61 Nickson Street, Surry Hills, 2010| |
- | led Mc walk down Davios | + | |
- | the party had aia::o..tly chivcn | + | ---- |
- | rock led e., 71--, | + | |
- | ThenriSt127, | + | =====At Our Monthly Meeting - January 15.===== |
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- | from 7:ra 9 and a chat with Tony Canon. | + | The meeting opened with the Vice President in the chair and apologies from the President Frank Rigby, who is holidaying in Africa. |
- | -Lt | + | |
- | on Finch 17401' | + | Five new members were welcomed: Margaret King, Anne Ireland, Meredith Lynch, Peter berli and Ralph Malcolm. |
- | Jot s of Ica,,. ,,cattl e . Thr:::. e | + | |
- | ..,.., | + | Minutes of the last General Meeting (11 Dec.) were read and received. In " |
- | b.,-,,y.l. lc,?;/e to ask a ou.cstion7 | + | |
- | i!o ons had the E...,,ns7.rar. | + | In the matter of new club rooms; Owen Marks and Ramon U' |
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+ | In "Inwards Correspondence", | ||
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+ | Margaret Childs (Parks & Playgrounds representative), | ||
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+ | Bulletins and Bi-monthly reports were acknowledged from the National Trust and the National Conservation Council. | ||
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+ | In answer to a letter from the Commonwealth Bank re Conversion of Bonds - representing the North Era Trust Funds - the Treasurer reported that the $1,060 invested in Bonds maturing on 1 January 1969, has now been transferred to the next series (Series R), maturing in 1 years time. | ||
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+ | A letter was received addressed to the Club, asking that we forward it to the Gould League of Bird Lovers. It appears that this League is now defunct, or rather has changed its name to the Junior Tree [illegible] Department. [Illegible and duly speeded on its way. | ||
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+ | Treasurer' | ||
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+ | The Walks Secretary gave his usual intersting | ||
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+ | Pat Harrison' | ||
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+ | With contrast, Ken Ellis' | ||
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+ | With Doone Wyborn | ||
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+ | The Christmas Camp was Wollondilly / Tomat Creek area as a change | ||
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+ | Don Finch took his Instructional to McArthur' | ||
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+ | The Barrys Wallace and Pacey captained a skin-diving Instructional at Merry Beach and Pretty Beach. There was a little bit of spear-fishing and a lot of sunbaking. | ||
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+ | Ted van der Hale' | ||
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+ | Owen Marks gave the highlights of one of the trips he was on. Enzo brought with him two dozen eggs. When he opened his pack, Horrors! Six of them were broken. He placed the intact eighteen under a tree and what happended? Some snuffling beast [illegible] during the night! | ||
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+ | Social Report: The Social Secretary reported on teh collected concertos from teh musical library of Bareny [illegible] those who are in teh Club Room the Wednesday before Christmas, and foreshadowed a future musical treat on 22 January, sponsored by Ken Willis. On 29 January Spiro Ketas will give a talk about his homeland, Greece, and its people, and a Greek Supper will be provided. If it's on par with the last, be there, because it was MIGHTY! | ||
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+ | On Fegruary the Club's Colour Slide Competition will be held, with Henry Gold as Judge. There will be four categories: | ||
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+ | - Candid | ||
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+ | Fedration Report: There has been no Meeting, hence no report. | ||
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+ | Annual Reunion: 15-16 March. Bob Younger will take charge of the organising. All those willing to help Bob, please contact him. Helpers required especially to tee-up the transport arrangements. | ||
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+ | In General Business, Club members were exhorted to exercise extreme care in canyons. Over the past weekend there was an accident in Hay Creek Canyon in which a climber injured his shoulder. Although the accident happened on Saturday, teh injur boy was not brought out till the fo1lowing Tuesday. Luckily he could walk without help, otherwise this could have turned into quite an unpleasant incident. | ||
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+ | Dave Ingram mentioned the Square Dancing classes that will be held in the Easetern Suburbs, probably at Bondi Junction, and probably classes will commence about the middle of March. It's all in the Magazine. | ||
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+ | ====Volunteers To Assist Bob Younger.==== | ||
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+ | Required to prepare compsite, firewood, private transport. __At the Reunion__ to provide transport from Richmond Station to Woods Creek and return; to assist in preparation of supper; to assist in entertainment at campfire. __Bob is waiting on 57-1158__. | ||
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+ | ===Was Columbus Right?=== | ||
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+ | Alan Pike sets out to find out the truth. He is going to do the World circuit. | ||
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+ | =====A Matter Of Trains.===== | ||
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+ | Kath McKay | ||
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+ | Last year Jim Brown gave us a very ineresting talk all about trains, past and present, so I make no apology for writing of them now, even if locomotion, in bushwalking parlance, means foot-travel. | ||
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+ | When I came to Western Australia, no one told me about the trains. "Oh, Perth is lovely!" | ||
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+ | Wildflowers yes, but no mention of trains. | ||
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+ | I have come to rest in a peaceful suburb where the Perth plain meets the gentle foothills of the Darling Ranges. Farms and vineyards and orange orchards are all around us, and to get to the village we blithely take a short cut across the railway lines, six sets of them. In the spring the earth beside the track is a broad expanse of verdure and a kind of teazle grass almost the colour of pink clover, but in the heat of summer this herbage is burnt off, being a fire hazard, and the steel rails go shimmering nakedly into the far distance. | ||
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+ | Giant gums and pines and cedar trees border the station, and as we emerge from their shade we find a space between parked trains obligingly left on the path pedestrians use. Mothers with prams, cyclists, matrons weighed down with marketing, we all take the short cut, but I still have a feeling of guilt, and gaze apprehensively right and left down the vacant permanent way. | ||
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+ | Suburban trains are diesel burning, and generally short affairs, two or three carriaces, very comfortable, | ||
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+ | Country trains are of course longer, and painted in the same gay colours. Excellent they are too, graced with names like Australind and The Shopper, subtitled Kovea, which conveys passengers from Bunbury, a hundeed miles or so to the south, to Perth and back, just for the day. But it is the locomotives that are the crowning glory. | ||
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+ | In most places engines go by numbers, not by names; even Kipling' | ||
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+ | I was so intrigued with their names that I wrote to the Western Australian Government Railways, and they sent me a dazzling list. Two classes of locomotives, | ||
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+ | Another class, ten of them, are named after mountains in Western Australia: Bruce (reputed to be the highest, height unknown),Hallowell, Dale, Egerton; and eighteen more are called after Western Australian rivers, Murchison, Gascoyne, Kalgan, and so on and so on. | ||
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+ | The possibilities are endless, and one only wonders why other states in Australia do not show similar imagination. Wildflowers for instance, why could New South Wales locomotives bear names like Waratah, Boronia, Dillwynia? Surely they are worth publicising. Or bird names, Rosella, Kookaburra, Brolga, (but not Galah); or explorers, Sturt, Eyre, Giles? But no, prosaic non-committal numbers are the order of the day. | ||
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+ | Where I live, the trains are pleasantly audible, and the suburban services run so regularly that when I hear an apologetic "Toot!" I say to myself: "Ah, there goes the 10.30" and glance at the clock to see if it agrees. | ||
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+ | Now, in the wide moonlit night, I hear a country train choofing round the foothills - who knows but that it is Churoro, wending his way south? Indeed, Western Australia has many things to recommend it, and not the least of them are its trains. | ||
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+ | ===News from Germany.=== | ||
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+ | The latest information we have about Roger Lockwood is that he is temperature controller of an ice-rink in Frankfurt, Germany. Possibly he uses his toes. We also hear that he has been sampling German grog. | ||
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- | 173ara.-73 alacc and. Pacey captained a | ||
- | InstrLietional at Yierz7aol 'nd a little bit of spea", | ||
- | Ted van dDr Caving. rip to 'co jas:-2= enticed out 6 | ||
- | nqy ]ad 51 hours of caving in C clays. The dzly- t:-.cy surfaced and. -ont for an over i.:,11. ti i n to Tumut Ponds Dam Kiandra hapcnod | ||
- | to -!)e one of tile ';ret da7s. | ||
- | Ltarl:s ;;save the " | ||
- | b' | ||
- | ioizors six of them -era broken. He r)1F.,cc,d the intact eighteen under | ||
- | a tree seatirr--4146109swego, | ||
- | 4. The Sydney.7., | ||
- | r.n.e Social Secretary opo:otz:di on tlie collected cc)nctos fi he of .T.arry, | ||
- | .,,, | ||
- | -bh s rOOrnb3 C. dal befou. e Chris tmas 9 CA foreshe, | ||
- | On 29 January Spiro as trill i:re a tall.: about. 1.,.aS | ||
- | an a its people, and a Su-riTior be pr.ovi..": | ||
- | with the last, | ||
- | On ' | ||
- | hold, 77i th IThriTy Gole, There 11 be tour oacories s- | ||
- | 1. Landscape | ||
- | 2. 0-verc.;oas anriscarle | ||
- | 3 . rr-1.1.1: | ||
- | 4. Ccan cis | ||
- | F edrati on Thee has been no 7:_e et Zr 7 17 ence no report. | ||
- | Annual :leunior.12 15-16 liarch Bob Youz' | ||
- | In Genera. . ?ere ezhortc.,, | ||
- | Hay CF., | ||
- | accinthp..oned on.: | ||
- | the fo1lo7rirr: Tuesday. he could -.72,11: without ' | ||
- | haveturn,: | ||
- | '0 *1* | ||
- | Da",' | ||
- | -744> | ||
- | VOLUFT:r; 3 70 T. 7.:C2 -.MTG7R - reciu-1-.' | ||
- | Reunion to pro-:? | ||
- | At the I' | ||
- | and return- to ,--,ssist irpation of supper to assist in entertainment at campfire. Deb is -:.-miting on, 53-11504 | ||
- | COI ? | ||
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- | is going to do the -Tal circuit: | ||
- | 55bruary 1969. The Sydney Bush7alker | ||
- | R OF TRAITS elee, | ||
- | Katli 1,16:ay | ||
- | Last year Jim .Brown gave us a very inerestinL talk all about trains, Past an Dresent, so I make no apology for writing of the now, even if locomotion, in 1).7.sh7alking Parlance, means foottravel. | ||
- | 7hen I caele to Testern Australia, no one told eie about the trains. "Oh, Perth is Thvely!" | ||
- | 7ildflo7ers yes, but no mention of trains. | ||
- | I have no to r3st in a peaceful suburb whore the Perth plain meets the c' | ||
- | Giant gums and pines and c-dar trees ', | ||
- | matrons ei bed dovn marketing, | ||
- | still have a feelin; of guilt, and gaze a-.e.)rehensively and left | ||
- | down the vacant permanent ray. | ||
- | Stfatl, | ||
- | ready to supply you with a ticket if -rou have not ad time to buy one at the station 'here you entrain,d5 in fact same platform: dispense with ticketselling altogether r:nd you buy one aboard. Also, they are points of no return only sin:le suburban tickets are iesued. | ||
- | Country t-af.ns are of course loner, and flainted in th-_ sme gay colours. :::cellent they are too, raced with names like Ausralind and The Shopper, subtitled Kovea, which conveys pass:ners from Buribury, a hundeed miles -r so to the south, to Perth and back, just for the day. But it is the loco2otivos that are the crowning glory. | ||
- | In most places engines go by numbers, not by names even Kiplingis famouE locomotive is .007 ( .007, not to to confused with | ||
- | James Demi): and in Pee-th the City Fathers or whoever is responsible for naming streets, show a re, rettable lack of imagination and resort to numbers ( I myse'f live in rift' Road). But it is not so with engines. | ||
- | I was so iffriL,usd with their names that I wrote to the " | ||
- | 6 . The Sydney Bush-Talker February 1969 | ||
- | Australian Gov 7nment acj_lways, and thy sent me a dazzling list. T--ro classes of locomotives; | ||
- | Another class, ten, of them, are named after mountains in ' | ||
- | The possibilities are :,-ndless, and one only wonders -Why other states in Australia do not show similar imaginF, | ||
- | aratah, Doronia, Dillw7nia? Surely they are worth publicisinE. Or bird names, aosella, :ookaburra, B17olga, (but not Galah); or explorers, Sturt, ::yre, Giles? 2ut no, prosaic non-committal numbers are the order of the day. | ||
- | -lere I live, the trains are pleasantly audible, and the suburban services run so :Legularly that when I hear an apologetic " | ||
- | Now, in tho ;ide moonlit niht, I 7-ear a country train choofing round the foothills - who knows but that it is nuroro, wending his -,ay south? ndsod, cistern Australia has many thins to recommend it, and not the least of them are its trains. | ||
- | The latest information we have about Roger Lockwood is that he is temperature con-broiler of an ice-rink in 7rankfurt, Germany. Possibly he uses his toes. 7e also hear that he has been sampling German grog. | ||
F.eqbiva,ry 1 96 9 The Sydney Bushvralker | F.eqbiva,ry 1 96 9 The Sydney Bushvralker | ||
BUSIII-3 BA3RIrCITON | BUSIII-3 BA3RIrCITON |
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