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-[Bull coming up to two bushwalkers disguised in a cow suite. Sign saying "Walkers Prohibited" in background.]
+[Cartoon of a bull coming up to two bushwalkers disguised in a cow suit. In the background is a sign saying "Walkers Prohibited".]
 "You and your bright idea for sneaking through unnoticed!!"
-(Editors' Note: Lots mor cartoons are required for future issues. Commit your sense of humour to paper and send in your contributions soon.)
+(Editors' Note: Lots more cartoons are required for future issues. Commit your sense of humour to paper and send in your contributions soon.)
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+=====January General Meeting.=====
-JANUARY GENERAL MEET NG.
 by Jim Brown.
-"Happy New Year" said President Barry Wallace as introductory to the January meeting. He voiced apologies from office bearers Helen Gray, Spiro Hajinakitas and Frank Roberts, and said we had no new members to welcome, it being thought that the January meeting was not a propitious
-one for admissions. Briskly we dealt with December's minutes, with nothing arising, and from correspondence we learned:-
+"Happy New Year" said President Barry Wallace as introductory to the January meeting. He voiced apologies from office bearers Helen Gray, Spiro Hajinakitas and Frank Roberts, and said we had no new members to welcome, it being thought that the January meeting was not a propitious one for admissions. Briskly we dealt with December's minutes, with nothing arising, and from correspondence we learned:-
-(a) River Canoe Club had invited us to attend the official opening of their new Club Room at Tempe at 2.0 p m., Saturday, February 28th (it may be recalled the old club house on the same site was burned down by vandals in August 1973).
+(a) River Canoe Club had invited us to attend the official opening of their new Club Room at Tempe at 2.0 p.m., Saturday, February 28th (it may be recalled the old club house on the same site was burned down by vandals in August 1973).
 (b) Spiro had proposed a minor constitutional amendment for consideration at the Annual Meeting in March.
-(c) National Parks and Wildlife Service has closed Blue Gum Forest to camping from let Deoember last for an unspecified period. Three alternative sites in the Upper Grose valley are available for camping provided permits are obtained from the Se/Vice's Blackheath office.
-(d) Cosmorama Press, Helensburgh, is producing Vol02 of its booklet "A Guide to Bushwalking" and invites contributions of material.
+(c) National Parks and Wildlife Service has closed Blue Gum Forest to camping from 1st Deoember last for an unspecified period. Three alternative sites in the Upper Grose valley are available for camping provided permits are obtained from the Service's Blackheath office.
-Having decidod to do nothing as a Club about item (a), we went on
-to the Financial Statement, which showed a small rise to a total of $1541 in working funds at the close of December.
+(d) Cosmorama Press, Helensburgh, is producing Vol. 2 of its booklet "A Guide to Bushwalking" and invites contributions of material.
-At this stage, as the Walks Secretary was out sailing on the Harbour, the normal progression of events got somewhat inverted, and at one stage there was an announcement for the benefit of day walkers that the Sunday morning train to Goulburn now departs Sydney at 8.05 a m., about i hour earlier than previously.
-Federation's Newsletter was mentioned, and after a request for a summary of its contents, Barry explained it consisted of 5 pages of close typescript, but the main features were-
+Having decided to do nothing as a Club about item (a), we went on to the Financial Statement, which showed a small rise to a total of $1541 in working funds at the close of December.
-(i) A representative will work with the Australian Standards Association on uniform track signs.
+At this stage, as the Walks Secretary was out sailing on the Harbour, the normal progression of events got somewhat inverted, and at one stage there was an announcement for the benefit of day walkers that the Sunday morning train to Goulburn now departs Sydney at 8.05 a.m., about 1/2 hour earlier than previously.
+Federation's Newsletter was mentioned, and after a request for a summary of its contents, Barry explained it consisted of 5 pages of close typescript, but the main features were:-
+(1) A representative will work with the Australian Standards Association on uniform track signs.
 (2) Negotiations are taking place with the Water Board about access by walkers to certain parts of the Burragorang catchment, such as Jooriland.
-(3) The Tasmanian Govt0 is contributing towards construction by Tasair of an airstrip on Port Davey - walkers are asked to boycott Tasair.
+(3) The Tasmanian Govt. is contributing towards construction by Tasair of an airstrip on Port Davey - walkers are asked to boycott Tasair.
 (4) Search & Rescue seeking closer co-operation with Police and Parks Wildlife Service.
 (5) Various conservation bodies would appreciate advice from walkers as to changes in roads and structures adjacent to Parkland reserves.
 (6) The military firing range at Tianjara has amended its boundary to a line west of the Newhaven Gap road.
 (7) At Easter a group of conservationists will organise air travel to and from the disputed National Park area on the Queensland border.
 (8) Further campaigning against deliberate burning off practices is being undertaken.
-Page 1 2 THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER February, 1976.
-At this stage Barry decided to start on the Walks Report, but Bob Hodgson arrived one weekend later (i e. after doings on one weekend had been covered).
+At this stage Barry decided to start on the Walks Report, but Bob Hodgson arrived one weekend later (i.e. after doings on one weekend had been covered).
 On the 12/14 December, Barbara Evans' party of 13 went to a leisurely camp in the Wolgan valley and visited the Glow Worm Tunnel. The weather was hot, but the ferny glen just below the tunnel proved comfortable. It was still too warm on Sunday to take much interest in the ruins. The day walk, Victor Lewin's trip in Govett's Leap Creek, had 14 starters and the upper reaches of the creek were very interesting, but the slow going approaching the main waterfall prevented the party getting right up to its base.
-Hans Stichter's Upper Cox's River trip on December 20-21 had 10 in attendance. Wild life sighted included a couple of dingos on the Cox and to fill in time some of the party penetrated a distance up Jenolan River canyon. There were two events on the Sunday, one being Roy Braithwaite's Cowan-Brooklyn jaunt, on which high tide at Porto Bay added to the length of the first stages according to the member who reported, it seemed well up to test walk standard, especially as the party was kept moving from about 9.30 a m. at Cowan until 3.15 p m. when a belated lunch break was held at the old railway dam. Gordon Broome reported that Wilf Hilder had 8 folk on his map reading excursion on the West Head peninsular, where very heavy scrub was encountered. Gordon held the view that such instruction was most valuable to would-be bush navigators.
-Next programmed attraction was the 4-day Christmas trip all the way down the Grose. Leader Joe Marton managed to shatter his thumb at work a day or so before Christmae and Victor Lewin inherited the trip which started with 69 one of whom withdrew at Blue Gum. A lengthy verbal report was given, describing how there was some doubt whether the train would stop at Hartley Vale (it is no longer an official station). It did, and on Christmas Day the party went into the top of Grose Valley via The Engineers Track, finding some prickly going in lawyer vine when the track petered out. They camped near Blue Gum about 700 p m. and next day, after Victor had done a little unintended bull-dogging, ended below Kolongo Walls. The third day took them to Linden Creek and on the last day, after lunch near Burralow Creek, and a dispute with a landowner who wouldn't let them cross his property, they fetched up at an orange orchard by the Nepean and were given a lift by No.6, who had defected at Blue Gum 3 days before Evidently going on the Grose has become slower and harder in recent years (an opinion shared by your reporter) and Victor suggested 5 days would give a more restful journey.
+Hans Stichter's Upper Cox's River trip on December 20-21 had 10 in attendance. Wild life sighted included a couple of dingos on the Cox and to fill in time some of the party penetrated a distance up Jenolan River canyon. There were two events on the Sunday, one being Roy Braithwaite's Cowan-Brooklyn jaunt, on which high tide at Porto Bay added to the length of the first stage: according to the member who reported, it seemed well up to test walk standard, especially as the party was kept moving from about 9.30 a.m. at Cowan until 3.15 p.m. when a belated lunch break was held at the old railway dam. Gordon Broome reported that Wilf Hilder had 8 folk on his map reading excursion on the West Head peninsular, where very heavy scrub was encountered. Gordon held the view that such instruction was most valuable to would-be bush navigators.
+Next programmed attraction was the 4-day Christmas trip all the way down the Grose. Leader Joe Marton managed to shatter his thumb at work a day or so before Christmas and Victor Lewin inherited the trip which started with 69 one of whom withdrew at Blue Gum. A lengthy verbal report was given, describing how there was some doubt whether the train would stop at Hartley Vale (it is no longer an official station). It did, and on Christmas Day the party went into the top of Grose Valley via The Engineers Track, finding some prickly going in lawyer vine when the track petered out. They camped near Blue Gum about 7.0 p.m. and next day, after Victor had done a little unintended bull-dogging, ended below Kolongo Walls. The third day took them to Linden Creek and on the last day, after lunch near Burralow Creek, and a dispute with a landowner who wouldn't let them cross his property, they fetched up at an orange orchard by the Nepean and were given a lift by No.6, who had defected at Blue Gum 3 days before. Evidently going on the Grose has become slower and harder in recent years (an opinion shared by your reporter) and Victor suggested 5 days would give a more restful journey.
 Alan Pike's Christmas trip to the Wollondilly was altered when the leader couldn't go, but a party of four spent a leisurely three days near Shawney's Creek, where the owner of a small piece of river frontage indicated other campers were unwelcome.
-The final weekend to be considered was 9-11 Jan. Oliver Crawford's Budawangs trip had been postponed one week, but there were 38 in all on the two day walks s 27 to Marley with Kath'Brown on an uneventful trip, while
-Hans Stichter had 11 on his Blue Gum jaunt, and again nothing unusual happened.
+The final weekend to be considered was 9-11 Jan. Oliver Crawford's Budawangs trip had been postponed one week, but there were 38 in all on the two day walks: 27 to Marley with Kath Brown on an uneventful trip, while Hans Stichter had 11 on his Blue Gum jaunt, and again nothing unusual happened.
-Then the usual announcements and the meeting gently ebbed away at 9.20 p m.
-Page 13. TEE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER February, 1976.
+Then the usual announcements and the meeting gently ebbed away at 9.20 p.m.
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 ONE MONDE{ WITHOUT HUSBAND AND CHILDREN
 OR TEE S.B.W. INDIA TRIP