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 And who said boots were mandatory in the N.Z. mountains, with this recollection of John by Bill: "Looking back downhill, I saw this bloke in sandshoes, no socks, jogging uphill and then proceeding to kick his way across a steep slope of packed snow." Ouch! (Mt.Hart, Milford Track, March 1976)
+=====Letter To The Editor.=====
-LETTER TO THE EDITOR	from Tom Herbert.
+from Tom Herbert.
-Dear
-.	Herewith is a photo copy of Jack Debert's letter to the Sydney Morning Herald. The letter was written in 1929, 50 years after the dedication of the National Park in 1879.
+Dear Helen,
-The address shown on the letter is 258 George Street and this was . the Boy Scouts' Rooms where the S.B.W. had its first meeting place. I think. Jack's letter-was.good-publIc-relationswork f6r- the S.Bar. giving its philo7 sophy and its address.	Best wishes.	TOM HERBERT.
-NATIONAL PARK.
+Herewith is a photo copy of Jack Debert's letter to the Sydney Morning Herald. The letter was written in 1929, 50 years after the dedication of the National Park in 1879.
-To the Editor of the -Herald.
-In reference to "Rtgu'letter in'SaturdaYls "Herald", I would
+The address shown on the letter is 258 George Street and this was the Boy Scouts' Rooms where the S.B.W. had its first meeting place. I think Jack's letter was good public relations work for the S.B.W. giving its philosophy and its address.
-advise him that when in future desirous of showing our National Park
-to visitors, he would take them to some of the more unfrequented
+Best wishes.
-spots. While appreciating the difficulties under Which the National
-Park Trust labours, owing to lack of finance, it is fully recognised that the most beautiful parts of our wonderful National Park are those untouched by the hand of man. It is regrettable that the remarks of Mr. W. P. Leighton Bailey concerning an ungrateful public are only too true, and it is a great pity we cannot educate the frequent visitors of our park to be more alive to its beauties, and the need for assisting in keeping clean this great playground.
+Tom Herbert.
-I would like to draw attention to the fact that two years ago Wattamolla was a perfect camping place, but of late, owing to the greater number reaching the place by motor car, it has been utterly
-ruined by a careless public, who seem to think that a picnic involves
+====National Park.====
-the leaving about of hosts of paper, empty tins, and broken bottles. Those who see Wattamolla at present, for their first time, think it very beautiful, but had: they seen it two years ago, they would have been enraptured with its beauties, which were then unspoilt by the untidy picnicker.
-Sydneysiders, in the main, are unaware of the true beauties of National Park, but those-who have traversed the many creeks and unfrequented ridges, realise what a fine inheritance has been banded pm by the far-seeing statesman, who, in 1879, declared open to the public the first stretch of country, namely, eighteen thousand =lies in extent. Of recent years, a further eighteen thousand acres have been added, and it is to be hoped that that glorious stretch of coastline, from the existing southern boundary at Garie, to a point just north of Stanwell Park, will be taken over by the park trust. This would then ensure that a number of beaches in proximity of the city would ever remain in a natural state.
+__To the Editor of the Herald.__
+In reference to "R's" letter in Saturday's "Herald", I would advise him that when in future desirous of showing our National Park to visitors, he would take them to some of the more unfrequented spots. While appreciating the difficulties under which the National Park Trust labours, owing to lack of finance, it is fully recognised that the most beautiful parts of our wonderful National Park are those untouched by the hand of man. It is regrettable that the remarks of Mr. W. P. Leighton Bailey concerning an ungrateful public are only too true, and it is a great pity we cannot educate the frequent visitors of our park to be more alive to its beauties, and the need for assisting in keeping clean this great playground.
+I would like to draw attention to the fact that two years ago Wattamolla was a perfect camping place, but of late, owing to the greater number reaching the place by motor car, it has been utterly ruined by a careless public, who seem to think that a picnic involves the leaving about of hosts of paper, empty tins, and broken bottles. Those who see Wattamolla at present, for their first time, think it very beautiful, but had they seen it two years ago, they would have been enraptured with its beauties, which were then unspoilt by the untidy picnicker.
+Sydneysiders, in the main, are unaware of the true beauties of National Park, but those who have traversed the many creeks and unfrequented ridges, realise what a fine inheritance has been handed on by the far-seeing statesman, who, in 1879, declared open to the public the first stretch of country, namely, eighteen thousand acres in extent. Of recent years, a further eighteen thousand acres have been added, and it is to be hoped that that glorious stretch of coastline, from the existing southern boundary at Garie, to a point just north of Stanwell Park, will be taken over by the park trust. This would then ensure that a number of beaches in proximity of the city would ever remain in a natural state.
 I am, etc.,
-J. DEBERT.
-Hon. Secretary, Sydney Bush Walkers. 258 George-street, Sydney.
+J. Debert. Hon. Secretary, Sydney Bush Walkers. 258 George Street, Sydney.
-Sept. 17.	1929.	It
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+Sept. 17. 1929.
-Fellow Members,	.
-This unsigned letter arrived recently and it is just too good to throw away. Although frivolously written it has a
+=====Letter to the Editor.=====
-grain of common sense and besides, there are not enough walks' articles coming through. I ask the author to own up - this could be the start
-of something big! EDITOR.)
+====In Reply To The Article On Calendar Reform====
-Letter to the Editor.
-IN REPLY TO TEE ARTICLE ON CALENDAR REFORM.
+(Fellow Member,
+This unsigned letter arrived recently and it is just too good to throw away. Although frivolously written it has a grain of common sense and besides, there are not enough walks' articles coming through. I ask the author to own up - this could be the start
+of something big! Editor.)
 Dear Sir,
-The recent article on Calendar Reform in the August magazine, while interesting from a philosophical point of view, is simply a waste of time, and why anybody should try to convert the world is simply beyond me, although I 'do know that Albert Einstein and 'Immanuel Velikovsky both were in favour of it. It is as pointless as the fortune left behind by George Bernard Shaw to change the English alphabet. Surely the author realises there are more pressing problems than his hobby horse.
-I have an idea that is equally important, and, unlike his, does not involve changing God's rule in any way. It is this. Why doesn't our planet have a name? Before you laugh and say "Earth", think what the Russians, the. Opts, the Aleuts, the Magyars, and the Tuaregs call it. Not to mention theAiabs, the Hindus or the Gurindji. Obviously it is quite clear that every tongue has "earth" in its own language, and it may even be possible that some primitive culture has a genuine name for our planet. That is needed NOW is - an International Name and that is the responsibility of the various nations on this planet, with the urgings of the citizenry. YOU.
+The recent article on Calendar Reform in the August magazine, while interesting from a philosophical point of view, is simply a waste of time, and why anybody should try to convert the world is simply beyond me, although I do know that Albert Einstein and Immanuel Velikovsky both were in favour of it. It is as pointless as the fortune left behind by George Bernard Shaw to change the English alphabet. Surely the author realises there are more pressing problems than his hobby horse.
- Let this magazine lead the world. Let us be the hiccup that shook the, civilized ramparts. Let us fire an arrow of intellect into the scientific and literary world. Let this be a trumpeting call that will outblast and outlast-Rolandis famous call through the centuries.
-What can you do? Write letters to the editor of your favourite newspaper, make reverse charged calls to your Federal and State members, tell the localcrackpot, shout it aloud from the ziggurats, write intellectually to Max Harris
+I have an idea that is equally important, and, unlike his, does not involve changing God's rule in any way. It is this. Why doesn't our planet have a name? Before you laugh and say "Earth", think what the Russians, the Copts, the Aleuts, the Magyars, and the Tuaregs call it. Not to mention the Arabs, the Hindus or the Gurindji. Obviously it is quite clear that every tongue has "earth" in its own language, and it may even be possible that some primitive culture has a genuine name for our planet. What is needed NOW is - an International Name and that is the responsibility of the various nations on this planet, with the urgings of the citizenry. YOU.
-or grammatically to Patrick White (or vice verwa). Refuse to let Joan sing at your wedding free, and SHOCK the Establishment. Get the local school councOs
-to brainwash the next generation (look how the litter problem has been solvein only 20 years!), blackmail your worst politician, get influential millionaires to forgo frippery and sally forth forthwith.
+Let this magazine lead the world. Let us be the hiccup that shook the civilized ramparts. Let us fire an arrow of intellect into the scientific and literary world. Let this be a trumpeting call that will outblast and outlast Roland's famous call through the centuries.
-Civil disobedience there can be too, but in a very subtle way that even tinid typists can do by simply placing the stamps upsidedown each time they mail a letter and showing the world that they are members of S.N.O.O.P. (Society fOr the Naming Of Our Planet). Imagine the whole population of Sydney leaving - their phones off the hook. Even a baby could be involved, and could ask his father without shame when he grew up - "What did YOU do in the SNOOP campaign!' anci the father could puff out.his chest and say, "I involved you, my cherub,-i. into giving our Planet a name by making you take the phone off the hook, when you were but a dimpled babe".
-Even young ladies can emulate their great-grandmothers of the Suffragette Movement by doing all sorts of things, although.I am not in favour of them
+What can you do? Write letters to the editor of your favourite newspaper, make reverse charged calls to your Federal and State members, tell the local crackpot, shout it aloud from the ziggurats, write intellectually to Max Harris or grammatically to Patrick White (or vice versa). Refuse to let Joan sing at your wedding free, and SHOCK the Establishment. Get the local school councils to brainwash the next generation (look how the litter problem has been solved in only 20 years!), blackmail your worst politician, get influential millionaires to forgo frippery and sally forth forthwith.
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+Civil disobedience there can be too, but in a very subtle way that even timid typists can do by simply placing the stamps upsidedown each time they mail a letter and showing the world that they are members of S.N.O.O.P. (Society for the Naming Of Our Planet). Imagine the whole population of Sydney leaving their phones off the hook. Even a baby could be involved, and could ask his father without shame when he grew up - "What did YOU do in the SNOOP campaign?" and the father could puff out his chest and say, "I involved you, my cherub, into giving our Planet a name by making you take the phone off the hook, when you were but a dimpled babe".
-copying Lysistrata. That would be going too far.
-Let this be a broadsheet. A pamphlet announcing to the world that the light at the end of the tunnel is the 1st January 2000 when the Naming of Our Planet can come true. L. whole new world crusade to round off the 20th century and all from your own S.B-.W. magazine. Let TREK follow
+Even young ladies can emulate their great-grandmothers of the Suffragette Movement by doing all sorts of things, although I am not in favour of them copying Lysistrata. That would be going too far.
-into the new millenium with SNOOP as our rallying cry.
-As for the small problem of WHAT to call our planet, I will leave that to you, gentle reader. Just write your selection on a piece of paper and thail it to the Editor. An easy decision.
+Let this be a broadsheet. A pamphlet announcing to the world that the light at the end of the tunnel is the 1st January 2000 when the Naming of Our Planet can come true. A whole new world crusade to round off the 20th century and all from your own S.B.W. magazine. Let THEM follow into the new millenium with SNOOP as our rallying cry.
+As for the small problem of WHAT to call our planet, I will leave that to you, gentle reader. Just write your selection on a piece of paper and mail it to the Editor. An easy decision.
 Long Live Our Magazine.
 (Unsigned for ethical reasons)
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 THE HALF-YEARLY GENZEAL1CHETING.
 by Barry Wallace.