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 |**Editor**|Evelyn Walker, 158 Evans Street, Rozelle, 2039.  Telephone 827-3695.|
 |**Business Manager**|Bill Burke, 3 Coral Tree Drive, Carlingford, 2118.  Telephone 871-1207.|
-|**Production Manager**| Helen Gray.|
+|**Production Manager**| Helen Gray|
 |**Typist**| Kath Brown|
 |**Duplicator Operator**|Phil Butt|
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 | The Franklin River Verdict |by Jim Brown |   2|
 | Social Notes for September | |   2|
-| Arthur and Us - Part 1 | Bill Gamble |   3|
+| Arthur and Us - Part I | Bill Gamble |   3|
 | For the Love of the-South-West | Peter Harris |  6|
 | Notes of the June & July General Meetings | Barry Wallace |   6|
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 by Jim Brown
-Of course; bush walkers would never use explosives or firearms, would they? Never!  Well, hardly ever....
+Of course;- bush walkers would never use explosives or fire-arms, would they? Never?  Well, hardly ever....
-This thinking was inspired by the quotation from Phil Butt in the "Sydney Morning Herald" - see the June issue of the magazine. Then I remembered that, if you go far enough back in the Club's history, you will find stories of members. shooting wild duck on the Kowmung River to supplement the rations they had carried through.the granite gorges higher up.	Oh, yes, and of course one of the early lady members carried a revolver as a protection against marauding males..... not Club members, but the seedy itinerants who
+This thinking was inspired by the quotation from Phil Butt in the "Sydney Morning Herald" - see the June issue of the magazine . Then I remembered that, if you go far enough back in the Club's history, you will find' stories of members. shooting wild duck on the Kowmung River to supplement the rations they h65. carried through.the granite gorges higher up.	Oh, yes, and of course one of the early lady members carried a revolver as a protection against marauding- males..... not Club members, but the seedy itinerants who
-sometimes took to the bush during the 1930s Depression years.	In spite of the reputed permissiveness of more recent years, no one seems to think such a precaution necessary now. Maybe we really are better behaved after all.
+sometimes took to.the bush during the 1930s Depression years.	In spite of the reputed permissiveness of more recent years, no one seems to think such a precaution necessary now. Maybe we really are better behaved after all.
-But even in my time with the Club there have been walkers who were fascinated by the Big Bang. For some years there used to be a regular camp at Euroka Clearing in the Lower Blue Mountains (before there was a road there) on the weekend nearest to the 24th May (which used to be Empire Day - Cracker Night - in the days when there were still some vestiges of a British Empire, my children). All comers brought their catherine wheels and Roman candles, port lights and rockets, and made the Blue Labyrinth resound on the Saturday evening.
+But even in my time with the Club there have been walkers who were fascinated by the Big Bang. For some years there used to be a regular camp at Euroka Clearing in the Lower Blue Mountains (before there was a road there) on the weekend nearest to the 24th May (which used to be Empire Day - Cracker Night - in the days when there were still some vestiges of a British Empire,' my children). All comers brought their Catherine Wheels and Roman Candles, Port Lights and Rockets, and made the Blue Labyrinth resound on the Saturday evening.
-On one occasion a lighted firework, thrown with small regard, for the environment, landed in a cardboard box at the edge of the campfire area. The box contained a selection of rockets, most of which took off on horizontal trajectories. One was alleged to have passed through an abdulled tent, happily without causing damage or injury. Thereafter, our favourite camping site at Euroka was defined in the walks programmes as "Fireworks Ridge".
+On one occasion a lighted firework, thrown with small regard ,for the environment, landed in a cardboard box at the edge of the campfire area. The box contained a selection of rockets, most of which took off dn horizontal trajectories. One was alleged to have passed through an abdulled tent, happily without causing damage or injury. Thereafter, our favourite camping site at Euroka was. defined in the walks programmes as "Fireworks Ridge".
-In addition to those who were satisfied with commercial fireworks, there were others who liked louder noises. At a camp in 1952 (I think the Club's 25th Anniversary) someone let off an explosive device, occasioning what might be called in modern legal parlance "public affront or alarm. On being told not to do it again, the perpetrators displayed a suitably meek attitude, but countered with a proposal to blow up fallen trees which were causing serious bank erosion at Blue Gum Forest.
+In addition to those who were satisfied with commercial fireworks, there were others who liked louder noises. At a camp in 1952 (I think the Club's 25th Anniversary) some one let off an explosive device, occasioning.what might, be called in modern legal parlance_"publLa affront or alarm4-:- dff-be-ing-td1d:-
+not to do it again, the perpetrators displayed a suitably meek attitude, but countered with a proposal to blow up fallen trees which were causing serious  bank erosion at Blue Gum Forest.
-Being at the time the S.B.W. representative on the Blue Gum Trust, I undertook to put the proposal to the Trust. Admittedly, I did so with fingers crossed and uttering a small prayer. However, the idea was readily adopted, and on the weekend of 25/26 April, 1953, the dynamiters went into action. Actually, it was gelignite which was used and, because it is apparently sensitive stuff, it was claimed that some of the party cuddled up to it in their sleeping bags at the top of the Perry's Lookdown track on the Friday night. (Shades of the old drill sergeant rasping "Right! The rifle is the soldier's best friend.	In very cold weather, or if anyone is likely to steal it, you **//will sleep//** with your rifle. After all, you'd sleep with your best friend, wouldn't you?")
+Being at the time the S.B.W. representative on the Blue Gum Trust, I undertook to put the proposal to the Trust. Admittedly, I did so with fingers crossed and uttering a small prayer. However, the idea was readily adopted, and on the weekend of 25/26 April, 1953, the dynamiters went into action. Actually, it was gelignite which was used and, because it is apparently sensitive stuff, it was claimed that some of the party cuddled up to it in their sleeping bags at the top of the Perry's Lookdown track on the Friday night. (Shades of the old drill sergeant rasping "Right t The rifle_is the,soIdier's - best friend.	In very cold weather, or if anyone is likely to steal it, you WILL SLEEP with your rifle. After all, you'd sleep with your best friend, wouldn't you?")
-The Blue Gum affair wasn't quite as simple as it sounds. A drill was needed to burrow into the hardened, saturated wood of the partially submerged logs and a chain block was used to shift some Of the more massive lumps of timber. It was reckoned at the time that Colin Putt, who carried the chain block, had a load of nearly 100 lbs -(about 44 kg) on the way down to the forest. I think it was Peter Stitt who carried the petrol-engined drill, and he must have had 75 lbs (33 Kg) on his back.	Several times over the weekend the cry arose "To the hills!" as the 31 workers were cleared from the explosion area. '	.	:
+The Blue Gum affair wasn't quite as simple as it sounds. A drill was needed to burrow into'tfle hardened, saturated wood of the partially submerged logs and a chain block was used tb'Shift'sate Of the more massive lamps of timber. It was reCkbned at the time that Colin Putt, who carried the chain block, had a-load of.nearly 100.1bS -(about 44 Kg) on the way down to the forest. I think it was Peter Stitt who carried the petrol-engined drill, and he must have had 75 lbs (33.Kg).an his .back.	Several times over the weekend the cry arose "To the hills:" as the 31 workers were cleared fromthe explosion area. '	.	:
-At one stage on the Sunday morning a rumour spread around "They've poured the jelly down Brian Anderson's shorts". For a time Brian must have wondered if he had halitosis, before it was explained that one of the girls had been trying to make edible jelly, which wouldn't set, and in a moment of devilment had poured the billy down the back of Brian's shorts.
+At one stage on the Sunday morning .a rumour Spread around "They've poured the jelly down Brian Andersons shorts".- For a time Brian must have . .wondered if he had halitoSis, before it was explained that one of the girls had been trying to make edible jelly,, which wouldn't-set, and in a moment of devilment had poured the billy down. the back of Brian's shorts.
-Honour - or the urge to make a **big bang** - must have been satisfied at Blue Gum. Although we had almost 50 people there for a subsequent working bee in 1955 to consolidate the work on the "silt pack", there were no more loud noises. Our mantle passed to one of the Speliological Societies which was reported in 1955 to be using explosives to form a passage between two natural caves at Bungonia. Being reformed characters, we could afford to chuckle at Geoff Wagg's explanation in one of the Chronic Operas (to the tune of "For he's gone and married Yum Yum" - from The Mikado):-
+Honour - or the urge to make a **big bang** - must have been satisfied at Blue Gum. Although we had almost 50 people there for a. subsequent working bee in 1955 to consolidate the work on the "silt pack", there were no. more loud noises.	Our mantle passed to one of the Speliblogical Societies which was reported in 1955 to be using explosives to form a passage between two natural caves at Bungonia. Being reformed characters, we could afford to chuckle at Geoff Wagg's explanation in one of the Chronic Operas (to the tune of "For.he's gone and married Yum Yum" - from The Mikado):-
 | "Oh, we're going to make a big hole, big hole, |
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 | We've explored every cave that is known, is known, |
-| With din everlasting and drilling and blasting |
+| 7th din everlasting and drilling and blasting |
-| We're making a few of our own..... |
+| We're making .a few of our own |
 As Hamlet says with his last breath "The rest is silence".
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 ===== Continuing Education Programme, University of Sydney =====
-Over the next few months several courses of lectures, discussions and outings are to be held by the University of Sydney in its Continuing Education Programme. Anyone over the age of 18 may enroll for these courses. Some of these courses may be of interest to people engaged in outdoor activities such as Bush Walking. Further information may be obtained by writing to the University or by phoning 692-2907.
+Over the next few months several courses of lectures, discussions and outings are to be held by the University of Sydney in its Continuing Education Programme. Anyone over the age of 18 may enrol for these courses. Some of these courses may be of interest to people engaged in outdoor activities such as Bush Walking. Further information may be obtained by writing to the University or by phoning 692-2907.
-| **__Birds__** | - 9 meetings $35.00. Tuesdays at 7 pm, commencing 6th September. Classification and distribution of birds, their habitats and breeding behaviour. |
+**__Birds__** - 9 meetings $35.00. Tuesdays at 7 pm, commencing 6th September. Classification and distribution of birds, their habitats and breeding behaviour.
-| **__Bird-Watching Week-End__** | - Oberon:State'Forest, Friday 14th October to Sunday 16th October. Basic accommodation at camps sleeping bags and similar equipment must be brought. Cost-$60.00. |
-| **__Seashore Ecology__** | - 6 meetings $45.00.	Tuesdays at 6 pm, commencing 1st November.	Study of animals and plant of NS.W. Seashore - life history, environments, behaviour and interaction of these organisms. |
+**__Bird-Watching Week-End__** - Oberon:State'Forest, Friday 14th October to Sunday 16th October. Basic accommodation at camps sleeping bags and similar equipment must be brought.	Cost-$60.00.
-| **__Hill End - The Study of a Goldfield__** | - October. Participants make food, accommodation. Study Cost $40.00. Week-end Saturday/Sunday 8/9th own arrangements for transport, of mining developments from 1851. |
-| **__Anthropology - Aboriginal Art__** | - 9 meetings, $30.00. Thursdays 10.30 am from September 8th. Survey of aboriginal rock carvings, painting  and bark art. |
+**__Seashore Ecology__** - 6 meetings $45.00.	Tuesdays at 6 pm, commencing 1st November.	Study of animals and plant of NS.W. Seashore - life hiStorY, environments, behaviour-and interaction of these organisms.
+**__Hill End - The Study of a Goldfield__** - October. Participants make food, accommodation. Study Cost $40.00. Week-end Saturday/Sunday 8/9th own arrangements for transport, of mining developments from 1851.
+**__Anthropology - Aboriginal Art__** - 9 meetings, $30.00. Thursdays 10.30 am from September 8th. Survey of aboriginal rock carvings, painting  and bark art.
 __Congratulations__ to Margaret and Bob Hodgson on the birth of their first child, a daughter,Jennifer Louise, last month.
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 Let's put our dancing shoes on and get together for the Bushwalkers Ball (it's country dancing, really).
-| Date: | Friday, 23rd September 1983 |
+| Date: | Friday, 23rd Saptember 1983. |
-| Venue: | Lane Cove Town Hall, Longueville Road, entrance in Phoenix Street. Council car park at rear and in Little Street. |
+| Venue: | LANE 'COVE TOWN HALL.
+Longueville Road, entrance in Phoenix Street. Council car park at rear and in Little Street. |
 | Time: | 8 pm |
 | Cost: $7.00 single - B.Y.O. + Plate |
 | Dress: | Casual or semi-formal (whatever you fancy!) |
-| Tickets: | Barbara Bruce - phone bookings 925-2520 (Bus.) or 546-6570 (H).
+| Tickets: |Barbara Bruce - phone bookings 925-2520 (Bus.) or 546-6570 (H)..
-| | Denise Shaw - phone 922-6093 (H) |
+| | Denise Shaw - phone 922-6093.(H). |
 The tickets will also be on sale in the clubroom.
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 ==== Walks Note ====
-Gordon Lee, following a recent walk in the Budawangs area, reports that Sluice Box Falls on Kilpatrick Creek  are not shown on the new Endrick 1:25000 map in the correct location.
+Gordon Lee, following a recent walk in the Budawangs area, reports that Sluice Box Falls on Kilpatrick Creek, are not shown on the new Endrick 1:25000 map in the correct location.
 ===== Notice =====
-==== Half-Yearly General Meeting ====
+====Half-Yearly General Meeting ====
 __The Sydney Bush Walkers__
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 No notices of Amendments to the Constitution have been received.
-th August, 1983
+th August, 1983.