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====A Constitutional Contradiction - (3) "... and Stamina?" | ====A Constitutional Contradiction - (3) "... and Stamina?" | ||
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+ | In last month' | ||
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+ | In support of this requirement of physical endurance, it may be argued that, except in cases of illness or injury, a member should be capable of completing any trip undertaken without becoming a burden on the party or leader. A member, yes - but that can scarcely apply to an inexperienced newcomer, who cannot be expected to know if his physical capacity is equal to a trip of unknown proportions. In any case, the trip that proves too much early in his prospective membership may be something he will accomplish with ease a few months later. | ||
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+ | It may also be urged that it is desirable to exclude weaklings and cripples, yet quite a few respected members have been people of indifferent physique, and several have suffered from serious disabilities. | ||
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+ | If it be accepted that there is justification for demanding a measure of physical fitness, probably the best and fairest way of gauging it is by test walks, as the Club has done from its early years. It follows that there should be a wide variety of trips on the programme, allowing the __complete novice__ to make a steady progression through easy day walks where he can acclimatize; | ||
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+ | Unfortunately, | ||
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+ | Are our test walks too severe, as some members aver? The test walks are selected by Committee from the trips available on the programme, and should be similar in scope to the Pattern Walks laid down by a General Meeting. Within those restraints a succession of Committees has, over the years, usually managed to make a fairly discreet choice, but it is not an easy task. | ||
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+ | To make a sound selection, it is obviously desirable that most Committee members should have actually done the Pattern Walks, and some at least should be familiar with the trips to be marked as tests. However, of the three pattern day walks, one has been led only once in the past ten years, and another has never been conducted - the route is rather illogical. Some of the week-end test walks on the various walks programmes have not appeared previously, and others are patently exploratory trips. Their choice is probably due to the fact that a few Committee members know the area concerned in a general way, although they may have only a sketchy idea of the details of the scheduled trip. | ||
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+ | There is, too, an understandable tendency to think of the Pattern Walks as a minimum standard, whereas the Constitution actually says test walks shall be " | ||
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+ | In the circumstances, | ||
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+ | The leadership of test walks may also have a good deal of influence on their suitability for newcomers. Unless we aim to play the game of exclusion really hard, it is important that leaders of test walks be tolerant of the physical shortcomings of prospectives and make sensible allowances for the physique, age and experience of those they accept on their trips. Leaders who are not prepared to accommodate newcomers in this way would do better to ask that their trips should not be indicated as test walks, or alternatively decline to take people whose capacity is unknown to them. | ||
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+ | One of our most valuable member acquisitions of recent years has said to me "On our first walk we were really ruined - but ruined. But we were lonely and in a foreign City, and the walkers were such friendly people .... so we came back." | ||
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+ | That's not a bad image in one way, but maybe it could be improved if we concentrated a little more on being "those friendly people" | ||
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+ | =====The Half-Yearly (September) General Meeting.===== | ||
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+ | If one excludes the rather abortive gathering of September 1st, when ingress to the new Club Rooms was somewhat retarded, the half-yearly meeting was the first opportunity for most people to view the new premises. About sixty people were present when Spiro and Don mounted the pulpit - sorry, dais, to open proceedings with a welcome to new member Peter Chorley. Four other admissions of recent months were still too shy to claim their badge. | ||
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+ | The August minutes were O.K'd, and in Correspondence appeared the Annual Report and Notice of the Annual Meeting of the Nature Conservation Council of N.S.W. There was also an opinion by the Club's Hon. Solicitor that the tentative agreement with the owners of the new Club Room was satisfactory. | ||
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+ | The Treasurer reported finances in August as holding their own, income and expenditure almost equal, and the closing balance $716 in the working kitty. Pat Harrison then presented the August Walks' Report, starting with a trip led by John Holly in lieu of David Ingram in the Woolwash area, and attended by 19; despite Army "Keep Out" notices, a satisfactory trip was conducted. | ||
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+ | Over the week-end 6-8 August Max Crisp had a party totalling 14 in the territory around Gudgenby, south of Canberra. Some snow fell during the Saturday night. Also on that week-end Phil Butt had one of his cross-country skiing instructionals, | ||
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+ | Dot Noble was up an over the Guouogang ranges with 14 folk on the 13-15 week-end - night camp on Saturday was made on a ridge, and breakfast Sunday was taken on Kanangra River. An Instructional week-end set down for Moorabinda under Betty and Ernie Farquhar was instead organised by David Ingram, while the Sunday trip, Jack Gentle' | ||
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+ | The third week-end was severe weather-wise - the famous Sydney hail-storm occurred Saturday morning - and Alan Round' | ||
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+ | So to the final week-end, when Bob Younger' | ||
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+ | The September Federation Report was published in the previous magazine but during the discussion of it Pat Harrison mentioned a report that Clutha Organisation was understood to be seeking coal mining leases near the main Blue Mountains ridge between Valley Heights and Wentworth Falls. Also inspired by Federation Report was an official recording in the Club minutes of appreciation for the work of Elsie Bruggy and Heather White as S & R Contacts when an alarm was sounded. | ||
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+ | Dot Butler mentioned a trip to Coolana when the newly planted trees were watered: some had been " | ||
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+ | The main affair of the evening was the discussion about the Club Rooms. Because it was regarded as a matter of immediate interest, and time permitted, a summary of the debate was given in the September issue. The resolution adopted means that we stay at St. Leonards for a period of 12 months, see how attendance and membership are affected, and then review the situation. One got the feeling that some people who came prepared to vote against a move from the City decided, after seeing the place, to support the motion, or, alternatively, | ||
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+ | Spiro now said that Barbara Bruce had resigned as Membership Secretary - presumably the first casualty of the new location, which certainly could have problems for a Kirrawee resident. Geoff Mattingley was elected in her stead after saying he would need more effective assistance than the old Membership panel had provided (sometimes, he said, "as useful as pockets in a singlet" | ||
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+ | Before winding up, a vote was taken on the site of the 1972 Reunion, which went to Macarthur' | ||
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+ | =====From Running Stream To Culoul Range.===== | ||
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+ | by Pat Harrison | ||
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+ | __Friday 17th September__ | ||
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+ | __8.00 p.m.__ at Gerry Sinzig' | ||
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+ | __11.15 p.m.__ at Running Stream. Parked car and made ourselves ready. | ||
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+ | __11.30 p.m.__ set out by torchlight on a pitch-black night, and picked up the vehicular track (hard to see in the dark) and kept going at a steady clip for Barnes' | ||
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+ | __Saturday, 18th September__ | ||
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+ | __12.50 a.m.__ arrived at the shed on Barnes' | ||
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+ | __1.00 a.m.__ All of us in our sleeping bags. | ||
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+ | __5.30 a.m.__ Bob up and lit fire. Others up excepting me. My only concession to cookery being a cup of tea, I could stay longer in bed. Frank had a very cold night. The feathers of his Hotham (as often happens) had worked under him and he only had a piece of japara between him and the chill of Spring. | ||
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+ | __6.35 a.m.__ Away to a fine but cloudy morning. Grand, coloured, bluffs all around us. Wattle in bloom. Birds everywhere. The Capertee carrying a goodly volume of water and running strongly. What a great day to start a walk! | ||
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+ | __7.48 - 8.03 a.m.__ Near the top of the big bend of the Cappertee. Denis saw two dingo pups. | ||
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+ | __9.00 a.m.__ Passed our 1969 camp among the turpentines at grid reference 413013. | ||
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+ | __9.25 - 9.45 a.m.__ Morning tea at reference 430007. | ||
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+ | __10.40 - 10.55 a.m.__ At the creek which comes from Mount Morgan, grid reference 432983. | ||
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+ | __12.15 - 1.45 p.m.__ Junction of the Wolgan and Capertee Rivers. Now a glorious sunny day. Too cold to swim, but we washed, boiled the billy, and lay in the sun. | ||
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+ | __3.00 p.m.__ Near the end of the big bend on the way to Girribung Creek. | ||
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+ | __3.50 - 3.55 p.m.__ At grid reference 480965. Rough going and high sidlings. | ||
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+ | __4.07 p.m.__ Made camp at reference 484965, opposite mouth of Girribung Creek. Don and party not at rendezvous. We had expected him to be there long before we arrived. Beautiful flat campsite. Sandy beach, couch grass, casuarinas, and small overhangs nearby. Waded the knee deep Colo, flowing strongly, to get water from Girribung Creek. Billy on. Plunge and wash in river. | ||
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+ | __5.10 p.m.__ Don and John Powell emerged from the rock and scrub downstream. I went to meet them, and greeted Don with: " | ||
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+ | We put a billy on for Don, and he then proceeded to tell us all the lies in the world about where he had left our car .... he had taken the wrong turning, he did not find my note near Hollow Rock, he had been walking since 6.45 a.m. (__this__ was hard to believe), he had come down the wrong creek, etc., etc., etc., etc. In all these prevarications he was ably supported by his four myrmidons. | ||
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+ | __7.00 p.m.__ Don partly made up for his lies by giving me a plateful of a special dessert he had been cooking for about an hour. | ||
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+ | __7.15 p.m.__ Gerry very sick, and had been all afternoon. Had nausea and vomiting, which has been going around Sydney. | ||
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+ | __7.40 p.m.__ Having given up trying to get the truth from Don as to where he had left the car or which creek he had come down to the Colo, I go to bed under the nearby narrow overhang. | ||
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+ | __Sunday, 19th September__ | ||
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+ | __5.30 a.m.__ Up and lit fire in warm ashes. Don has completely redeemed himself. My note, which I had left at Hollow Rock, hangs on a stick stuck in the sand near the fire. | ||
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+ | __6.45 a.m.__ My party sets out for the Wollemi Junction. Gerry very sick, but decides to head for Glen Davis. Don still in bed. | ||
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+ | __7.45 - 7.55 a.m.__ Drink at creek at reference 502958. Roughish going. Scrub, rocks, high sidlings. We kept to the right bank all the way. Don had crossed here and there. | ||
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+ | __11.00 a.m. - 11.45 a.m.__ At Wollemi Junction. Glorious morning, glorious place, big sandy beach. Had a plunge, then morning tea, then a long sunbake which made us very indolent and loathe to get going again. | ||
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+ | __12.30-1.45 p.m.__ Lunch at foot of Culoul Pass - reference 534948. Waded chest-deep river, scrambled over the huge boulders to the foot of the pass, put our clothes on again, then scrambled up the big blocks of stone that choked the mouth of the creek. Frank now with the nausea trouble. He had not complained, and it was some time before we woke up to what was wrong with him. What an agonising effort it must have been for him to haul himself up that steep and bouldery creek and then through the two upper cliff lines to the ridge top! | ||
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+ | As we left the creek to go up to the first cliff line I saw what I thought was a poisonous Broad-headed Snake, and I dropped a big rock on it. However, the rock bounced off and the snake took off downhill in the direction of Bob and Barry. It turned out to be a huge Diamond Snake, of about 10-feet in length, and I never saw anyone move so fast as Barry and Bob. | ||
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+ | __4.45 p.m.__ The car and the end of a great trip. Frank sick all the way home, and on Monday I had the same wog. | ||
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+ | The next Colo trip is in November, and goes from the Culoul Range down to Angorawa Creek. Who's coming? | ||
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+ | =====Poem To The Editor.===== | ||
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+ | In all my life I've never known\\ | ||
+ | Anything so stimulating as Owen's poem:\\ | ||
+ | But he has no knowledge of Biblical lore\\ | ||
+ | For much has been written on this subject before.\\ | ||
+ | Velikovsky ... a Russian man of note...\\ | ||
+ | Made a statement in a book he wrote.\\ | ||
+ | It caused a sensation and much derision,\\ | ||
+ | Its title, I believe, is " | ||
+ | In the book, a comet was to blame\\ | ||
+ | For the pillars of cloud and the other of flame.\\ | ||
+ | The earth while passing through the comet' | ||
+ | Was the cause in Egypt of much travail.\\ | ||
+ | There the plagues of which you're aware\\ | ||
+ | Were only gases polluting the air.\\ | ||
+ | Meteorite dust caused much aberration\\ | ||
+ | While earthquake' | ||
+ | I recommend the book to all Bushwalkers\\ | ||
+ | (Especially poets who are non-stop talkers.)\\ | ||
+ | Velikovsky' | ||
+ | Regards to all ... Ken Ellis ... Weipa. | ||
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+ | ----- | ||
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+ | __VACANCY__ for one Federation Delegate, so that this Club will have its full entitlement of representation on Federation Council... see Federation Report for details. Remuneration NIL. Prestige tremendous. | ||
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+ | Did you hear that Julie Frost was underneath a portion of a tree that fell on her tent on the windy October holiday weekend? It happened on the Wollondilly River at Barallier.... but it could happen anywhere, so it pays to be careful where you pitch your tent in breezy weather. Result in Julie' | ||
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+ | =====Ausventure.===== | ||
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+ | (Advertisement) | ||
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+ | ==Staff Wanted:==== | ||
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+ | "The values of a wilderness outing are too often measured solely in terms of the number of miles travelled, the number of peaks climbed or the number of pictures taken. Too little attention is given to the long term significance of wilderness on our lives. Many have suggested that the opportunities of adventure and physical and spiritual challenge provided by man's contact with nature may well define his humanity; without this contact man may indeed find himself out of his element." | ||
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+ | __Adventure Wilderness Outings And Camps.__ | ||
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+ | IF you have a background of enjoyment of the Australian bush environment, | ||
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+ | IF you agree with the philosophy expressed above, and | ||
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+ | IF you are over the age of 21 years and have experience of leading bushwalking parties, | ||
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+ | IF you would like to pass on some of all this to young men and women aged 16-19 who in the main are totally inexperienced in these things, and | ||
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+ | IF you would like to spend 2 or 4 weeks in January, 1972, as a paid member of our staff running the Ausventure Wilderness Camp, (the aim is an enjoyable holiday, a memorable social experience and the satisfaction of having learned to live and travel with safety) | ||
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+ | THEN please 'phone 960-1677 by day, or 969-3826 after hours. | ||
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+ | Warwick Deacock, Ausventure | ||
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+ | =====Things Are Not Always What They Seem.===== | ||
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+ | (The following is a letter from a very senior member of the Club. In it he throws some light on a mysterious letter he received recently from another Club member. The writer suggests others may have received similar proposals, and be interested in his experiences when he followed up the invitation.) | ||
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+ | I was intrigued by a letter, that was sent to me, with a mixture of Conservation, | ||
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+ | Who would not be intrigued with "Here you will learn that you can increase your monthly income 2 or 3 times"? | ||
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+ | On Wednesday I was telephoned and asked if I was free that evening. I was. It happened to be my first free night for five weeks. Still being intrigued, I agreed to be picked up at 6.45 p.m. from my home. | ||
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+ | I ate a light meal because my caller had not mentioned dinner. It had more than crossed my mind that an appointment at that hour from one who had already had the benefit of having his salary doubled or trebled, would of course be the gracious host and provide the background information in the proper atmosphere of dinner, wine, and the offer of a cigar. | ||
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+ | A car called and a quite unknown man presented himself at my front door and suggested we go down. I popped into the little Mini car and off we rattled. I had winkled out the information that he lived at Northbridge, | ||
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+ | "Hey! Where are we going?" | ||
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+ | "Off to Rydalmere." | ||
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+ | I did not particularly want to go to Rydalmere - but two or three times my salary! | ||
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+ | Maybe it must be discussed in some special place or behind security bars. One just can't have the whole community doubling and trebling its salary. What would happen to the cost of living? | ||
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+ | The usual conversation ploys to get more details were useless. It was quite obvious that it was all to be a great and intriguing surprise. I was a little suspicious for good things can usually be spoken about, and especially when this was the time chosen to give Background Information. I went quietly, for after all I was to be the richer by all this wealth. | ||
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+ | We pulled up in a side street, several other cars about indicated that other people wanted to do just the same thing. Perhaps it was a memory training scheme, or even a new yogi sect to give one inner calm when all about are getting ulcers from the constant rat race. As Walkers we understand the call of the Unknown. | ||
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+ | I thought it very nice for Bestline Products Pty. Ltd. to lend their premises to help we strugglers to learn "How to increase your monthly income by 2 or 3 times" and with a nod here and there, I was ushered in. | ||
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+ | Here all was revealed in one clear, clean, flash! | ||
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+ | The chairs were arranged for a friendly talk. A small table with a bowl of water on it. Carefully chosen curtains for a pleasing backdrop. Bright personality-oozing people, sparkling smiles, brittle joyful greetings and a marvelous air of synthetic bonhomie. | ||
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+ | We were all welcomed and given a thoughtful talk on how the Bestline Company had made such a marvelous success since its founding in U.S.A. in 1964. Then just a little demonstration of how absolutely marvelous these bio-degradable products were! How only the very best ingredients were used. How every household cleaning cupboard should be checked, valued and then multiplied by six million and there was the market potential!! | ||
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+ | Just look at the products, which by a coincidence had been built into a large pyramid on the side of the stage. All of those were just waiting to be snapped up by your friends. | ||
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+ | Just arrange a little morning coffee party for only 10 people who on the average buy $8.70 per head. Thus income is $87.00 and you get $25.00 for yourself. Only arrange two per week and you already have $50 a week. This was shown on a glamorous movie to be so easy. Not one word however about the easy way to loose your friends. So it went on. All the very best techniques and gimmicks of a well-planned American Sales plan. Just like " | ||
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+ | I was quite fascinated to see these all at work. We were told we would be seen the next morning at the same place and then shown how to increase our selling power. | ||
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+ | It seemed too good to miss, but do you know, I just did not have the heart to let my present boss down, and so firmly told my personal host not to call for me on Thursday morning. | ||
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+ | He drove me home, not quite realising what had gone wrong and just why I hadn't immediately joined the ranks of the Happy Prosperous Bestline Products Sellers. | ||
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+ | I did, however, provide a drink and a couple of biscuits to show there was no hard feeling at all. But just an interest in Conservation and an interest in increasing my monthly income by 2 or 3 times. | ||
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+ | I wonder if any other club members have had a similar experience. | ||
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+ | "M. Bacon" | ||
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+ | =====Book Review.===== | ||
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+ | (Towards the end of August - just too late to get into the September issue - David Peacock wrote from Brisbane, giving a review of a recently published book on the subject of environment and adding some comment of his own.) | ||
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+ | "I feel a book review section in the magazine concerning topics dear to the hearts of bushwalkers may prove interesting, | ||
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+ | ====The Doomsday Book==== | ||
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+ | by Gordon Rattray Taylor. Thames & Hudson, 1970, pp. 335 $6.25 (in Brisbane) | ||
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+ | This book is concerned with the abuse that man is heaping on his environment. The author is pessimistically biassed as to the future of the human race, but he does, however, bring to the attention of his readers many features contributing to the questions which have previously been studied in isolation. | ||
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+ | As an example, how many people know that earthquakes have been caused by the formation of artificial lakes or that dust and the burning of wastes are causing a gradual fall in temperature over the earth, which had led scientists to the conclusion that there may be the start of an ice-age before the end of the century. | ||
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+ | The book also looks at the effects of pesticides and radioactive wastes, pollutants, predominantly the heavy metals, and the " | ||
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+ | At times the book can be frightening and to the point. For instance, cadmium sulphate is teratogenic - that is, it induces monstrous deformations of the foetus. Do you want a mentally-retarded child? Do you want your daughter to die of leukemia? Do you want to die in convulsions due to the unrestricted use of pesticides? If not, then I recommend you read this book and take relevant action. | ||
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+ | For, to quote the best line of the book "it is the future of the human race that we have been talking about." | ||
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+ | Well, now that I've said all that, I would like to make a few suggestions with particular reference to the Sydney Bushwalkers. | ||
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+ | Firstly, I feel that the Club should establish a Committee concerned with eco-sociological problems due to man's technology. Perhaps maybe, a new club could be formed, which may be better. | ||
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+ | Secondly, a questionnaire could be drawn up with reference to points such as - do you know what cadmium is? Do you know what the effects of dieldrin are? Would you be prepared to pay more for your electricity? | ||
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+ | Thirdly, the society could try to coordinate the activities of other conservation clubs forming a federation for, as everyone knows, united action is the goal. | ||
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+ | Fourthly, the Club could prove its good intentions by suggesting various schemes to make the best use of the environment, | ||
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+ | Finally, it could collect books and papers relating to the cause, so as to have a backbone of solid fact to back up its claims. | ||
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+ | I am sure other people could enlarge on the above, and I hope they do so. Unfortunately, | ||
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+ | I even propose that a convention be organised with members from all conservation societies in the Eastern States attending. It may prove to be extremely valuable. The venue would preferably be Sydney, with perhaps a society as I have outlined as hosts. Surely, members of the S.B.W. could house a " | ||
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+ | I am trying to outline a questionnaire similar in form to the one I have mentioned, and hope to get the Brisbane Bushwalkers interested - I will send a copy down if required. | ||
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+ | If this little lot can be published, it might stir up some action: if not, I'll come down for a weekend, and try to lend a hand. | ||
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+ | Sincerely, David W. Peacock | ||
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+ | =====Coming Walks.===== | ||
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+ | by Pat Harrison, Walks Secretary | ||
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+ | |**November 5, 6, 7|The month begins with Roy Higginbottom' | ||
+ | |November 5, 6, 7|Neville Page has a walk around Pigeon House and Byangee Walls in the Clyde River valley. The Castle looks more impressive from the Yadboro side.| | ||
+ | |November 7|Waterfall to Audley with Joan Cordell. Track all the way and plenty of time for lunch and nattering.| | ||
+ | |***November 12, 13, 14|Don and I have the second leg of our double this weekend. Rockhopping on the Colo and in Boorai and Angorawa Creeks and some sandy beaches on the Colo, but the scenery is worth all the effort.| | ||
+ | |November l3, 14|A Saturday morning start for Alan Hedstrom' | ||
+ | |*November 14|Jim Callaway starts at Garie Beach and ends at Heathcote. The usual Royal National Park scenery.| | ||
+ | |*November 19, 20, 21|Bob Younger goes out from Hilltop and down Martin' | ||
+ | |*November 20, 21|Neville Page heads an old favourite from Wentworth Falls to Katoomba over Mount Solitary. Train leaves at 12.50 p.m. on Saturday.| | ||
+ | |November 21|Meryl Watman has a swimming trip from Heathcote to Engadine via Karloo Pool, Kangaroo Creek, and Tukawa Rill. If the day is hot, you can cool off; if not hot, you can enjoy a pleasant walk.| | ||
+ | |November 26, 27, 28|Max Cripp' | ||
+ | |**November 28|Peter Levander' | ||
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+ | =====Paddy Made.===== | ||
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+ | A lot of people do most of their walking during the cooler months, and "taper off" their activities in the heat of summer. | ||
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+ | If you're amongst those, Paddy hopes you've had a really satisfying autumn and winter of walking, and are making the most of your last enterprising Spring trips before your summer " | ||
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+ | Of course, there are others who persist in walking all the year round, but use some discretion about the places to go and the hours to walk in the hot season. | ||
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+ | Then there are some who wouldn' | ||
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+ | Now, whether you're " | ||
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+ | Paddy Pallin Pty. Ltd. Lightweight Camp Gear. | ||
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+ | 69 Liverpool Street, Sydney. Telephone 26-2685. | ||
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+ | =====Federation Notes - September 1971.===== | ||
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+ | by Ray Hookway and Heather Williams | ||
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+ | Sixteen delegates representing eleven clubs attended the September meeting despite the lack of cooperation from striking railway men. New delegate Heather Williams representing the Sydney Bush Walkers was made welcome. | ||
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+ | ====Minto Wallerawang Power Line.==== | ||
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+ | Federation are still seeking exact details of the route from the Electricity Commission but it is now known that the final route has been decided upon. The 330,000 volt line is to cross the Megalong Valley, pass through Medlow Gap, drop down towards the Cox and cross the Cedar and Kedumba valleys towards and or the Kings Tableland escarpment to Minto. At the request of the Blue Mountains Council, the Commission has moved the proposed route further south than originally planned, but they appear determined to make no more changes. The above area is not in either the Kanangra Boyd nor the Blue Mountains National Park, but lies mainly in the Water Board Catchment area. The Commission says that tree clearing will be minimal and towers will, be painted a dull colour to blend in with the background, but this will net detract from the overall depressing picture. | ||
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+ | The Colong battle may have been won but it seems that there are always other vandals hovering in the wings to take over the despoilation of our National Parks and surrounding areas. | ||
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+ | Steps should immediately be taken to include the Jamison, Kedumba and Cedar valleys in the National Park, if only to retain the economic viability of Katoomba as a tourist resort. | ||
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+ | Club members are urged to make conservation a personal issue. Write to your local member. Write to the Minister for Lands. Discuss conservation with your friends. There is plenty of subject matter. Myall Lakes.... Clutha-on-the-south-Coast... Clutha-on-the-Mountains... The Boyd-Kanangra National Park... and now the Electricity Commission' | ||
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+ | ====Snowmobiles.==== | ||
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+ | Following receipt of correspondence regarding the use of over-snow vehicles on the Bogong High Plains, Federation are to write again to the Minister for Lands requesting stricter controls on all all-purpose vehicles in N.S.W. parks. Visitors to Barrington Tops will be well aware of the danger and nuisance caused by unregistered trail bikes in that area. | ||
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+ | ====Federation: | ||
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+ | 470 people attended the Ball and voted it the best ever. Biggest party was 61 from Springwood. A party from the Kamerukas celebrated the Club's 25th anniversary. | ||
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+ | The S.& R. raffle held in conjunction with the ball raised over $380., also the best result ever. Winning numbers were drawn by Alison Edgecombe who sold the most tickets: | ||
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+ | 1st prize was won by L. Stirk, 8 Napoleon Street, Rozelle. | ||
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+ | 2nd prize was won by Phil Wicks, St. Patricks College, Manly. | ||
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+ | Next year's ball will be held at the University of N.S.W. Roundhouse. Make a resolution to be there...... | ||
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+ | ====Federation Delegate.==== | ||
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+ | Jim Callaway has found it necessary to resign as S.B.W. delegate to Federation and a replacement is required. This is your chance to participate in a small way in current conservation issues. Only one meeting a month is held on the third Tuesday of every month so calls on your time are minimal. Why don't YOU volunteer? | ||
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+ | ====National Parks Association.==== | ||
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+ | An application from the N.P.A. for affiliation with Federation will be discussed at the October Federation meeting. | ||
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+ | ====Lake Pedder Protection Measures.==== | ||
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+ | Additional postcards of Lake Pedder being sold at 20c. each as part of the campaign to save something of this scenic attraction, are available from J. Bonmitcha, 54 Swanston Street, Newtown, Hobart, 7008. | ||
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+ | =====Membership Notes.===== | ||
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+ | Due to pressure of other business, the new Membership Secretary, Geoff. Mattingley, | ||
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+ | =====Despatch on Coolana.===== | ||
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+ | Ramon U' | ||
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+ | |$|Thick grass on the camping flat completely burned off, but new green shoots coming through.| | ||
+ | |*|Parts of the river floor have been bulldozed out for about two miles down stream commencing just below the bend at Coolana (the reason for this work unknown)| | ||
+ | |$|Very good roads have been built on both sides of the river downstream from Hampton Bridge. The road on the southern side goes on about 12 miles beyond Coolana, and where it passes through the cliff line there is attractive walking country.| | ||
+ | |*|Some landholders in the valley are moving out.| | ||
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+ | One of the walking movement' |
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