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 In case people may think from the above that we are subsidising the anniversary dinner, we would like to point out that the November balance was abnormally large and the money received from ticket sales has more than covered the cost of the occasion.
-====REFLECTIONS AFTER FIFTY YEARS====
+====Reflections after Fifty Years====
 by Joe Turner
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 a "reflection", but his conviction (to paraphrase Kath's words) that not only "...Jong may....", but "..long shall the others who came after, walk the bush tracks, seek out the life that's free, meet perils...." and whatever, even if "....mingled at times with mild profanity".
 Joe Turner (joined 1927).
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-Page 5. TRal SYDNEY BUSHWAIKER December, 1977.
-DIENTY-FiritH BIRTHDAY.
+__Twenty-Fifth Birthday__
 A quarter century! The years are flying - Where are the prophets who so oft have said:
 "The Club is doomed". "The Club is slowly dying"? Believe me, we are not yet wholly dead.
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 And while we celebrate, not yet quite blotto, We would exhort them this all things above: To keep the good old independent motto Of S.B.W. - We won't be druvl
 KATH MCKAY. Written 1952.
-Page 6. THE SYDNEY BUSHWAIKER cleterilbo.7 )1977.
+====PaddyMade====
 BUNYIP RUCKSACK
 This 'shaped' rucksack is excellent for children. Useful day pack. Weight 14-oz
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 Two, three or four man. From 3% to tMlbs
 LIVERPOOL ST.., SYDNEY 26-2686, 61-7215
-Page 7. TEE SYDNEY BUSHWALICER December, 1977.
-WELCOME ABOARD.
-by Lesley Page.
+====Welcome Aboard====
+by Lesley Page
 AO "Your coach is about to depart for a scenic circle tour of Kalianna Ridge, Monolith Valley, Mt. Owen, Bibbenluke Walls, Corang Trig, Cockpit Swamp, Wog Wog Track and Yadboro River", announced coach captain, Charlie Brown, "Executive and economy classes catered for."
 There were twentyfive bodies that set forth Saturday morning. The day promised to be full of climatic contrasts. At 5.30 am our faithful leader awoke us; the air was warm and balmy. At 7.00 we were slogging our way up Kalianna Ridge, whilst Charlie kept mumbling about his
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 Down, down, down we went. The soupy mist disappeared to leave us with a dull day. We had lunch by Yadboro River, thence an easy walk along the river back to the cars. We reached the cars at about 4.30 pm, or to be correct, 5.30 pm Summer Time.
 A really good walk and not as hard as suspected.
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-SOCIAL NOTES.
-by Christine Kirkby.
+====Social Notes====
+by Christine Kirkby
 Don't forget that the Club Xmas Party will be held on Wednesday 21st in the Clubroom. Drink and music provided. Please bring a glass and a plate of party food. Also any photos of the 50th Birthday celebrations as these will be put on display for the evening.
-January 18th. If you cast your mind. back to July you might remember that Fred Lind showed us a few of his slides of the Kali Gandaki area of Nepal. Alan Fall, who went there in January 19777 is going to give us a much more expanded showing of this remarkable area. Come along, all you Nepal fans!
+January 18th. If you cast your mind back to July you might remember that Fred Lind showed us a few of his slides of the Kali Gandaki area of Nepal. Alan Fall, who went there in January 19777 is going to give us a much more expanded showing of this remarkable area. Come along, all you Nepal fans!
 Januaxy_25th.. After the popularity of the last Members' Own Slide Night, we've included one for January's programme. Some people may have slides of the 50th Anniversary weekend and their Christmas trips (if the processing is fast).
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 AW Pools rush in where angels fear to tread. I was the fool this day
 but many a time, as I hung over a breathtaking drop, or slipped, shuddering, across a slimy rock, I felt that ,I might af ny mament join those aLffident angels and rather regretted that I had lately neglected my practice on the harp.
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 As Jack Debert was one of the party it is superfluous to say we were awake early and had. breakfasted and were ready to leave long before respectable people had opened their eyes to the Sabbath. alma Galliot, Edna Garrad and I set off before the others and waited for them where the creek narrowed to a waterfall which plunged into a wide, rockbound pool. When the others joined us we left the creek and struck up the ridge. Although it was so early, it was already hot and I puffed and panted considerably as I struggled on, and secretly congratulated myslef when I found I was not the last arrival at the top. (I was the rabbit out with the tigers which is just about the same as the fox trotting along with the hounds.) Here we had to clamber along single file at the foot of a tall cliff face with a considerable drop to the creek below on our left. There were a few slippery places where Gordon Smith warned us to be careful but I felt that it was quite easy and went on unconcerned.
 We qt last came to a halt and Dot, who was in the lead, said we could go no further. Our track along the-cliff face was broken by a waterfall (Arethusa Falls) which came in on our right. At the extreme edge of it was a small but stout tree with wide spreading branches, We waited here while Dot, with consummate ease, skinned up to reconnoitre. After some little time she returned and said we would have to follow suit, it would
-THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER
-Deco ber2 1977.
+====Tiger for a Day====
-TIGER FOR A DAY.
+by Clare Kinsella
-by Clare Kinsella,
-Page, 10. THE SYDNEY BUSHWALKER December, 1977.
 be easy going once we scaled the tree.
 Easy! It didn't take me long to realise that Dot's definition of the word and my own were just a little different: Phillip Bronowski who had accompanied us thus far, allowed us in turn to clamber barefooted onto his shoulders and thence entwito, ourselves in the tree's branches. When I reached this haven Dot who was somewhere up near the sky, called down to me. "Now Clare just put your right foot on this ledge, give me one hand and hang onto the rope with the other". I glanced up and saw a slight indentation in the rock some feet above me. I wondered what dictionary Dot used and then, as I essayed this Gargantuan stretch at an angle of 89.90, I wished fervently that the Lord had provided me with elastic legs. However I scrambled up with no grace and a few grunts and joined Dot, Doris, Edna, Hilma and Alex at the entrance to a narrow canyon with a turbulent Greek twisting among the rocks. Jack and Gordon soon joined us, Phillip
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 At last we reached the tree Doris and. Hilma were already down. Dot Popped her head up and said, "Come on, we'll show these men we can get down without a rope". Edna went first and as I waited I was for the second time overcome with panic, my knees shook and my stomach turned like a paddle wheel, I felt an overwhelming desire to burst into tears. Instead I burst into song and pitted my puny voice against the tumult of the falls. Then the thought came to me that I at least could hear my own voice weak though it might be, I could control my actions but the waterfall rushed on insentient this reflection calmed me and an "I am the coptain of my soulish" feeling came over me. All the same I longed for Alex to come with the rope. He didn't, and I got down the tree without mishap. I've heard of returning exiles kissing the soil of their native land. When I felt earth beneath my feet again I felt glad but did n! - kiss it, instead I sat on it whenever possible. Narrow ledges which I had disregarded in the morning now appeared terrifying risks* I took them sitting down with the result that when we got back to the camp spot I had no seat in my pants, and I just didn't care.
 The Horse Track was never ending to me? the tigers of course took it . like an early morning stroll* We just caught the last train at Katoomba after ledk to neck race in a car from Blackheath. The trip was officially over but it wasn't over for me for many a long day or night. For long after I had only to close my eyes and pictures would rush before me with kaliedescopic variety, precipitous drops, hurtling falls, forming and reforming, always different, always the same. But now I have settled down to a quiet life. I feel that I have "lived" I have been a !!iger for a day;
-st3u.,) vna.,3 * * * * * * * *
-"SUCKED UP'.
+===="SUCKED UP'====
-by Sixpenny Bob.
+by Sixpenny Bob
-Have you been to Kanangra and. back in a weekend? If not, one sound word of advice, don't ever attempt it.
+Have you been to Kanangra and back in a weekend? If not, one sound word of advice, don't ever attempt it.
 It was one of those spinebashing weekends at Earley, when our cobber, Eric Pegram, suggested the trip to Stan Madden and myself (the two suckers).
 Immediately the trip was suggested we were eager to be off on the road. The next few weeks were filled with. preparations for the -trip and discussions of routes to be taken, gear needed, etc.
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  Although at the time I was thinking it was going to be the last walk I'd ever do, on looking back it was an experience none would have missed, and at the same time I say that our next trip there will be by car all
 itk the way there and back.
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-Page 15. THE SYDNEY BUSHWALUR December, 19776
-MONEY MATTERS OR COINAGE CONFUSION.
+====Money Matters or Coinage Confusion====
-by Gordon Lee.
+by Gordon Lee
-We !re lucky, we communicate in a language sometimes referred to as English. When divested of the "Strine" overtones and weeded of "Ockerisms", whrit is left is generally unintelligible to most Australians, but understandable to most English-speaking Asians. So it is possible to get away with a monolinguistic approach. However one obstacle that was almost impossible to surmount without some effort was nuMber.
-Every country I travelled through had a different number system.
+We're lucky, we communicate in a language sometimes referred to as English. When divested of the "Strine" overtones and weeded of "Ockerisms", what is left is generally unintelligible to most Australians, but understandable to most English-speaking Asians. So it is possible to get away with a monolinguistic approach. However one obstacle that was almost impossible to surmount without some effort was number.
-To transact anything involving money it was generally necessary to do so in the native language, disregarding dialect. So it became one of the first chores when crossing a border to "swot" up on their number system. Some of these were more confusing than others.
-Even now my mind boggles when I think of the Nepalese way of computing; ek, dooce, tin, char, parnsh, chah/oo, saht, aht, nor, aarse - one to ten. As for the numerals, they were in Sanskrit. Take a tin of worms. Spread them in a line, then read from right to left - sanskrit. In Nepalese it didn't end there. When counting objects another system was employed. One of something was "yohtah", two - "doocetah", three -
+Every country I travelled through had a different number system.  To transact anything involving money it was generally necessary to do so in the native language, disregarding dialect. So it became one of the first chores when crossing a border to "swot" up on their number system. Some of these were more confusing than others.
-"tinohtah". No use using this to count people, this required another set of names.
+Even now my mind boggles when I think of the Nepalese way of computing; ek, dooce, tin, char, parnsh, chah/oo, saht, aht, nor, aarse - one to ten. As for the numerals, they were in Sanskrit. Take a tin of worms. Spread them in a line, then read from right to left - sanskrit. In Nepalese it didn't end there. When counting objects another system was employed. One of something was "yohtah", two - "doocetah", three -"tinohtah". No use using this to count people, this required another set of names.
 When confronted and confounded by optical as well as aural oddities the task of communicating numerically sometimes degenerated to the use of what must have been to the bystander a very complicated series of digital exercises.
-"Thai" is tonal. If all the rest weren't enough to force you to
-the point of commital then this added horror was "the straw". -"Ke means egg but "Kr means chicken, so your breakfast egg could turn out to be neck, breast and parson's nose simply because you'd sung it the wrong way.
+"Thai" is tonal. If all the rest weren't enough to force you to the point of commital then this added horror was "the straw". "Ky" means egg but "KY" means chicken, so your breakfast egg could turn out to be neck, breast and parson's nose simply because you'd sung it the wrong way.
 The two most logical and straightforward enumerations were at either extremity of the journey - Afghanistan and Indonesia. Indonesian is made the more easy because the numerals are Arabic, the same as ours. However between these two there was plenty to baffle a poor simpleton such as I. So lend an ear if you wish to hear the ballad of a muddled mathematician.
-Confused Coin&.
-Use "say", "taegar" or "tin", For the country you're in,
+__Confused Counting__
-TO count the amount of your pay. In Nepal your quota
+Use "say", "taegar" or "tin",
+For the country you're in,
+To count the amount of your pay.
+In Nepal your quota
 May only lie "yohtah",
 Have a care and not throw it away.
-Page 16. 'THE SYD1TEY BUSHWALKER December, 1977.
 In India the "anna"
 Was quite an old manner
 To balance at end of the day;
-Sixteen ofthese made up your "Rupees" If someone you had to repay.
+Sixteen of these made up your "Rupees"
+If someone you had to repay.
 But today it's the "paisa"
-You get in your pay sirs
+You get in your pay sir!
 As you count in the now modern way.
 When adding "Afghani"
-You've obliged to use Farsi, But please, watch what you say; Use "hasht" for a "haft"
+You've obliged to use Farsi,
-And they'll think you are daft, And maybe will put you away.
+But please, watch what you say;
-Whether "empart" or flenarm"?
+Use "hasht" for a "haft"
+And they'll think you are daft,
+And maybe will put you away.
+Whether "empart" or "enarm"?
 May pose quite a problem
-In Java or Bali, but not Mandalay. Here the business you're at
+In Java or Bali, but not Mandalay.
+Here the business you're at
 May be solved by a "chat",
 When computing at work or at play.
-If you laugh or you grin At the trouble we're in,
-Be warned and don't got blase; If the:"Iand of the gin" Lets the Japanese in, Well, the "dee ye ken", It'll all be in "yen",
+If you laugh or you grin
+At the trouble we're in,
+Be warned and don't got blase;
+If the "land of the gin"
+Lets the Japanese in,
+Well, the "dee ye ken", It'll all be in "yen",
 And your grin may be turned the other way.
+Q.E.D.
 For those ignorant peasants illiterate in Farsi, Urdu, Bahasa Indonesia, Nepali and Burmese I append the following glossary:-
-Say, teega, tin: 3 in Farsi, Indonesian and Nepali/Hindi. Ydhtahs Nepali, counting objects.
+Say, teega, tin: 3 in Farsi, Indonesian and Nepali/Hindi.
+Yohtahs: Nepali, counting objects.
 Anna: Out of date coin in India.
-paisa =I Rupee or Afghani.
+paisa = 1 Rupee or Afghani.
-Afghani: Unit of currency ih Afghanistan.
+Afghani: Unit of currency in Afghanistan.
-Hasht, hafts Farsi 7 and 8.
+Hasht, haft: Farsi 7 and 8.
 Empart and enarm: 4 and 6 in Indonesian.
-Chat or more properly Kyats Unit of currency in Burma. "Land of the gin": Australia.
+Chat or more properly Kyat: Unit of currency in Burma.
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+"Land of the gin": Australia.