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This letter is going back per Ada and she leaves us to-day, so having stodged ourselves on Pompalonas (a species of fried scone about the size of a pancake) I have a brief lull in which to write. Bertie is just approaching his 19th. pompa. thereby surpassing all his previous records, as 2 are considered a fair meal. Gordon is a close second, but realises that he hasn't much of a chance. | This letter is going back per Ada and she leaves us to-day, so having stodged ourselves on Pompalonas (a species of fried scone about the size of a pancake) I have a brief lull in which to write. Bertie is just approaching his 19th. pompa. thereby surpassing all his previous records, as 2 are considered a fair meal. Gordon is a close second, but realises that he hasn't much of a chance. | ||
- | We are all congregated in a mall one-roomed hut about 12 x 16 - fifteen of us, eleven in our party and 3 other lads. We slept last night packed in like sardines. The hut 5s situated up above the Rees River with great snow-capped peaks 7 and 8 thousand feet high all around. The river is a green milky flood rushing along at a vast speed - you can hardly stand against it knee deep. Gordon is just reading out a notice pinned up on the hut wall - the wrapper from a Palmolive Soap cake. It says " | + | We are all congregated in a mall one-roomed hut about 12 x 16 - fifteen of us, eleven in our party and 3 other lads. We slept last night packed in like sardines. The hut is situated up above the Rees River with great snow-capped peaks 7 and 8 thousand feet high all around. The river is a green milky flood rushing along at a vast speed - you can hardly stand against it knee deep. Gordon is just reading out a notice pinned up on the hut wall - the wrapper from a Palmolive Soap cake. It says " |
(Picture of a crampon spikes) | (Picture of a crampon spikes) | ||
- | We had a wet day yesterday - the first so far. Tell Marie this and make her weep, We had another wet afternoon last week and showers at night, but the days have been perfect - bright sunshine and fresh breezes off the snow fields. We are all sunburnt to an unrecognizable | + | We had a wet day yesterday - the first so far. Tell Marie this and make her weep, We had another wet afternoon last week and showers at night, but the days have been perfect - bright sunshine and fresh breezes off the snow fields. We are all sunburnt to an unrecognisable |
The others spent the day playing cards, chopping wood, washing up etc. | The others spent the day playing cards, chopping wood, washing up etc. | ||
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boots are size 12 1/2 - almost big enough for young Bruce to sleep in. This rope load took things easier but I doubt if Gordon enjoyed it as much as we did. | boots are size 12 1/2 - almost big enough for young Bruce to sleep in. This rope load took things easier but I doubt if Gordon enjoyed it as much as we did. | ||
- | A note re Sandflies: We collected and squashed a representative collection | + | __A note re Sandflies:__ We collected and squashed a representative collection on the Milford Track, which George wants sent on to Billy Mullins. They will be found enclosed. There were very few and we had a job to snare the enclosed specimens. They don't attack when you are walking |
- | on the Milford Track, | + | you are eating and making a nuisance |
- | J.,?Il!t attack when you are 111kinL; | + | |
- | YOU ar-c, i,11(1-0 Inakirg 1111-LPfMCO | + | |
- | down below, which I can witnoss | + | |
- | throat, accusing him of publishing libellous statements. Gordon is saying in his letter that Bertie was sea-sick after his fourth pint of icecream on the Ayvatea | + | |
- | scruffing, and Bertie has his Milford bruise, his Homer scratch, his Kinloch contusion, | + | |
- | etc. etc. | + | |
The 2nd. batch of boys are just cooking their breakfast. Bert has been banished outside by Gordon to wash up, lest he become hungry again and so disgrace us. | The 2nd. batch of boys are just cooking their breakfast. Bert has been banished outside by Gordon to wash up, lest he become hungry again and so disgrace us. | ||
- | We have had swims in all the lakes and rivers and the sea encoun+, | + | |
- | way. The water is absolutely frigid - the sea no less than tho snow fed lakes and rivers - its current sweeps up direct from the South Pole. We dived in pink nn1s),' | + | We have had swims in all the lakes and rivers and the sea encountered |
- | and come out blue and stiff wi-hhout | + | |
- | There' | + | There' |
- | ---(indicaing | + | |
- | George has been -HI:Ds iljs-013scs | + | -------- (indicating |
- | them - you /11 alJ be ool2liv r'r3y n3 PGT. holiday. | + | |
- | The beech forestl, hez e arc: tImazinsLy | + | George has been some high-class photographs - just wait till you see them - you'll all be coming over here for a |
- | through the tiny dots of ,Q1(1. the pjeun(1 undefrfoot | + | |
- | This is s lard L.2 stress | + | The beech forests here are amazingly beautiful |
- | fern-like moss which clo-shes | + | |
- | wb1). ,r\Rry k:j ightest bresthof | + | This is a land of stream |
- | tiny white flower heads, giving the appearance of pins. | + | |
- | In the yet and dripping | + | In the yet and dripping |
- | thick. You can leap on it and bounce up and dorm. It would be marvellous to sleep | + | |
- | on if it were not full of water. | + | Gordon and Bert and I (Dot) climbed a hill overlooking Milford Sound, so as to get a view of the waters of the Sound. The hill was about 2,500 ft. and this we expected would take us at the most a couple of hours, which we had to fill in before tea. So we set out, following up a watercourse then cut off into the bush. Gee, did you ever imagine bush could be so dense and matted - it grew up almost perpendicular slope so that we practically climbed up from tree to tree. We slipped up perpendicular |
- | Gordon and Bert and I (Dot) climbed a hill overlooking Milford Sound, so as to get a view of the waters of the Sound. The hill was about 2,500 ft. and this we expected would take us at the most a couple of hours, which we had to fill in before tea, So we set out, following up a watercourse then cut off into the bush. Gee, did you ever imagine bush could be so dense and matted - it grew up almost perpendicular slope so that we practically climbed up from tree to tree. We slipped up perpendicular | + | |
- | 0 occasions, Gordon going through up to the waist-line, cursing and swearing and nearly breaking his legs and Dot frequanny | + | You should |
- | mossy hole. Nevertheless it was the best bush I have ever climbed in - nice and soft on the bare feet and nothing to cut or scratch the flesh. I wish we grew such in | + | |
- | good old N.S.W. | + | There is a poor lone lad with an enormous pack down in the valley unable to cross the flooded river. Bert and Roy have just gone down with the rope and ice-axes to help get him over - great excitement. |
- | 9 | + | |
- | You should | + | They carry enormously heavy packs here - having no Paddy Pallin to advise and direct them. If this boy falls in and wets his pack I pity him he won't be able to rise from the ground. Imagine a 60 lb pack dry - and then imagine it wet. Hell! said the Duchess! |
- | 5poon pli eula uu w9 bqh hc,vc, row by little lost various items of | + | |
- | ci,14.,1e oz- so that wc1 taku it im -arns with sponui | + | The high alpine meadows here are unsurpassed by anything I have ever seen. The grass is thick and soft and green and when the wind blows over it, it ripples |
- | i;c, ' | + | |
- | outside. Even Gordon, thirsty as he was, declined to drink the varnish flavoured beverage. | + | The birds here are all very different from ours. There are big heavy game fowl ones called wekas which are so tame they will come right up to the doorway of the huts (incidentally huts are a great idea here. When it rains __it rains__ |
- | There is a poor lone lad with an enormous pack down in the valley unable to cross the flooded river. Bert and Roy have just gone down with the rope and ice-axes | + | |
- | to help get him over - great excitement. | + | Up in the mountain passes and on the peaks are the keas, a symbol of the untamed rocky peaks as they rasp (?) defiance at our approach. They are of a grey-brown colouring, with a flash of pink underparts when in flight, like a sunset tinged cloud (Brenda thinks I said they had pink underpants - we are __not__ |
- | They ca1q7. | + | |
- | rise from the ground. Imagine a 60 Ito pack dry - and then imagine it wet. HellI | + | The mountain passes are dotted with millions of Alpine daisies and snow lilies - very beautiful and dainty. |
- | said the Duchess1 | + | |
- | - | + | |
- | The high alp1i mojvc Lr are unsurpassed by anything I have ever seena | + | |
- | The grass is -thick and soff. siC !, | + | |
- | the surface of the sea,. Big milito | + | |
- | their strong sweet perfume | + | |
- | flower to flower weighing down the clover heads where they settle with a louder and more persistent buzz. There are bushes of wild briar roses whose keen strong | + | |
- | rose in my shirt so I won't forget you My word you'd all like it over here. No | + | |
- | doubt ours will be the fore-runner of other S.B.W. parties in the future. Gordon is xeeping | + | |
- | z idi' | + | |
- | The birds here are all very different from ours. There are big heavy game | + | |
- | fowl ones called wekas which are so tame they will come right up to the doorway of the huts (incidentally huts are a great idea here. When it rains it rains and to try | + | |
- | to cook outside on a wet day would be impossible.) | + | |
- | Up in the mountain passes and on the peaks are the keas, a symbol of the | + | |
- | untamed rocky peaks as they rasp (?) defiance at our approach. They are of a grey- | + | |
- | brown colouring, with a flash of pink underparts when in flight, like a sunset tinged cloud (Brenda thinks I said they had pink underpants - we are not amused). | + | |
- | The mountain passes are dotted with millions of Alpine daisies and snow lilies - | + | |
- | very beautiful and dainty, | + | |
This letter is necessarily patchy as I am just jotting down things as they are recalled to mind, and time is short. Ada will be ready to go very soon. | This letter is necessarily patchy as I am just jotting down things as they are recalled to mind, and time is short. Ada will be ready to go very soon. | ||
- | Our next address will be c/o The Hermitage, Mt. Cook till 28th. January) | ||
- | after which it will be c/o G.P.O. Wellington. | ||
- | Hoping to hear from some or all of you, and kin regard and the Compliments of the Seasot to the Mob, | ||
- | From the VIlhole Pack, | ||
- | Per D. ENGLISH. | ||
+ | Our next address will be c/o The Hermitage, Mt. Cook (till 28th. January) after which it will be c/o G.P.O. Wellington. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Hoping to hear from some or all of you, and kin regard and the Compliments of the Seasot to the Mob. | ||
+ | |||
+ | From the Whole Pack,\\ | ||
+ | Per __D. ENGLISH.__ | ||
===== Wading Harry' | ===== Wading Harry' | ||
By Jack Debert. | By Jack Debert. | ||
- | Frantic rush at the start - usual holiday night crowd at the Railway. 6-30 train was so crwoded | + | Frantic rush at the start - usual holiday night crowd at the Railway. 6-30 train was so crowded |
- | The party alighted from the train into rain at Katoomba. Gordon almost immaculately dressed in white shorts and shirt made locals shiver and smile. Everyone else in the party already had ground sheets out and looked ready for dirtiest weather imaginable. But Gordon is tough. Rain was falling as the party proceeded on their way in the damp darkness. Nellie' | + | |
- | Lo and behold dawn broke and Jack was not the first up for Roley had the fire | + | The party alighted from the train into rain at Katoomba. Gordon almost immaculately dressed in white shorts and shirt made locals shiver and smile. Everyone else in the party already had ground sheets out and looked ready for dirtiest weather imaginable. But Gordon is tough. Rain was falling as the party proceeded on their way in the damp darkness. Nellie' |
- | burning brightly before Jack even got out of the tent. The morning was dullish but showed every indication of clearing up. There was no urgent need to make a very early start - so after a large breakfast of delicious steak topped off with a variety of tit bits that tend to make our meals most appetising; a start was made at 7-22. The trip through Euroka down Black Jerry' | + | |
- | The party was moving too rapidly so a halt was made for 15 minutes to enable the official photographer, | + | Lo and behold dawn broke and Jack was not the first up for Roley had the fire burning brightly before Jack even got out of the tent. The morning was dullish but showed every indication of clearing up. There was no urgent need to make a very early start - so after a large breakfast of delicious steak topped off with a variety of tit bits that tend to make our meals most appetising; a start was made at 7-22. The trip through Euroka down Black Jerry' |
- | how on these long so-called tough trips the self-called " | + | |
- | to be up and away and it proved to be the same on this occasion. It was thought that lunch might be had at the junction of Cox and Harry' | + | The party was moving too rapidly so a halt was made for 15 minutes to enable the official photographer, |
sipping saline and chewing chocolate for a full 30 minutes at Harry' | sipping saline and chewing chocolate for a full 30 minutes at Harry' | ||
- | ("If this resting goes on much longer we shall never get through in time and won't the knomalls | + | ("If this resting goes on much longer we shall never get through in time and won't the know-alls |
- | On the first stages of Harry' | + | |
- | and it was delightfully pretty and to all intent and purposes a miniature Cox. ThEn | + | On the first stages of Harry' |
- | came the gorge and the eaBiest | + | |
- | stop in admiration of a mosi-, narvollous | + | Well over an hour was taken for lunch and apart from much water wading the going was very easy up to Bee's Nest Creek and Gordon and Jack were very intrigued as to just when they were to hit the rough country they had heard so much about. As mile after mile of beautiful country Was covered the two old stagers realised someone had erred badly or else the roughness came suddenly and must be bad. Shortly after lunch the party encountered a stockman complete with horse, dogs and cattle. He was tremendously interested to hear that they intended going through along the river to the Caves. "It just cannot be done', he remarked. "Why you cannot drive a rabbit through it. The cliffs come down like this". (at the same time forming a V with his hands). |
- | 150 feet high on either side of -t river, no more than 30 yards wide, and looking on the eastern cliff JeoL coy-J-1150d 4-00 :, | + | |
- | to see. The walking was still vory (-3q.,; | + | Bee's Nest Creek is a glorious spot. Jack intends going back there to camp someday. There' |
+ | |||
+ | Well, it was not long before the party struck all the joyous roughness their hearts desired. For shortly after passing Bee's Nest Creek the river entered into a granite canyon. Nature must have been in a playful mood when she tossed a few of those granite boulders about and the constant running of the river in smoothing down the rocks completed the task. Over waist-high wading, slippery dips that outdo Luna Park, narrow ledges, clambering and climbing made the going very slow. It was here that Roley perilously perched in a slippery slipping situation had no less than 40 odd birthdays at once. It was no laughing matter for Roley, but Bush Walkers are ever ready to laugh at a brother' | ||
+ | but already she had a reputation for going en tough trips and getting there even on one occasion going on a Bill Mullins' | ||
+ | Even Bert - a tremendous eater - was satisfied. It was a glorious night and after the usual varied discussions around the fire the party turned in to their respective tents which had been erected in Abdul fashion. | ||
+ | |||
+ | Jack must be getting very old, for on the second morning he was not the first up. The crown for early rising that has adorned his brow for so long must now pass over to Roley, who seemed to be unable to sleep. But no to be outdone, as Roley rebuilt the fire, Jack lay in his bag and yelled get up in the approved Derbert manner. But the party, realising he is aged and worn out took no notice of him and so he hied himself to the river to drown the reflections of his past glories in the icy cold waters. Still in spite of all the parties' | ||
- | Well over an hour was taken for lunoh apars from much water wading the going was very easy up to Bee's Nest Creek and Gordon and Jack were very intrigued as to just when they were to hit the rough country they had heard so much about. As mile after mile of beautiful country Was covered the two old stagers realised someone had erred badly or else the roughness came suddenly and must be bad. Shortly after lunch the party encountered a stockman complete with horse, dogs and cattle, He was tremendously interested to hear that they intended going through along the river to the Caves. "It just cannot be done', he remarked. "Why you cannot drive a rabbit through it. The cliffs come down like this". (at the same time formirg a V with his hands). | ||
- | Bee's Nest Creek is a glorious spot. Jack iai:sende going back there to camp someday. There' | ||
- | time, when the dei, | ||
- | Bush Walkers Club mill read of such worthy walkers who revelled in rough country to such an extent that they would pass over such a divine camp spot as Bee's Nest, and want to go on looking for " | ||
- | Well, it was not long before the party struck all the joyous roughness their hearts desired. For shortly after passing Beefs Nest Creek the river entered into a granite canyon. Nature must have been in a pla-yful mood when she tossed a few of those granite | ||
- | boulders about and the constant running of the river in smoothing down the rocks completed the task. Over waist-high wading, slippery dips that outdo Luna Park, narrow | ||
- | 3 | ||
- | ledges, clambering and climbing made the going very slow. It was here that Roley perilously perched in a slippery slipping situation had no less than 40 odd birthdays | ||
- | at once. It was no laughing matter for Roley, but Bush Walkers are ever ready to laugh at a brother' | ||
- | took to the water jumps like old. stagers, Hilma and Jessie are tough and tried. Datint- | ||
- | less, they duck under what they cannot clamber over. Maida was only a prospective - | ||
- | but already she had a reputation for going en tough trips and getting there even on one occasion going on a Bill Mullins! running special after returning from a dance at 4 ae,m, Doris, with elastic bandages on her knees, looked as though she might give trouble, but | ||
- | a willing heart and long legs easily carried her where Jack in his old age found difficulty in going. Roley had the camera if he ever needed an excuse. Laurie' | ||
- | leaving the party at a possible camp spot, went in search of something better - and | ||
- | found it, and so a halt was made at 4-35 in what turned out to be practically the last possible campsite until one reaches the farm just below the Caves. Most everyone had | ||
- | a swim in spite of the perpetual immersion. What a repast the party sat down to, sausages, green peas, sweet potatoes, potatoes, followed with apples and mincemeat. | ||
- | Even Bert - a tremendous eater - was olsisfied. It was a glorious night and after the usual varied discussions around the fire the party turned in to their respective tents | ||
- | which had been erected In Abdul fashj,on. | ||
- | Jack must be gottng very old, for on the second morning he was not the first up. The crIwn for early rj,eia,,s. that has aolorned his bscs w for so long must now pass over to | ||
- | Roley, whe seemed to be unable to sleep3uJ nal; to be outdone, as Roley rebuilt the | ||
- | fire, Jack lay in 71iLi bag and yoliod get up in the approved Derbert manner. But the party, realising he is aged andvs4ni on:;, toels no notiee of him and so he hied himself | ||
- | to the river to drown the refleetiers oast clor5.es in the icy cold waters. Still | ||
- | in spite of all the partiest laziness the rearguard left camp at 7-50 and after the | ||
- | usual rock hopping, water wading, barging, charging, climbing, clamouring, 9-55 sees the chocolate ration being doled out at Big Oakey Creek. (A word of warning here. The angle of the junction of the river and creek is almost the same as that of the junction of the river a rid Bull's Creek. Local rain in Big Oakey Creek catchment area might easily make water appear in a larger quantity than in river and one might follow up Big Oakey Creek instead of keeping to Harry' | ||
Harry' | Harry' | ||
- | The party ambled up to the Caves House as a number wanted to do an inspection. | + | |
- | Naturally the mob, arrayed in bush walking attire, aroused the curiosity of the popular picnickers and the Jenolan Caves House staff were intensly | + | The party ambled up to the Caves House as a number wanted to do an inspection. Naturally the mob, arrayed in bush walking attire, aroused the curiosity of the popular picnickers and the Jenolan Caves House staff were intensely |
- | forthcoming 24 hour walk set out at a good pace. Bert MS out to SIWW that hills were his meat even though it was poison to Bill and Jack, who lagged slightly behind after doing the first five miles in 1 hour 16 minutes, but caught up again before the oamp _ spot. Just over 8 miles in 2 hours 2 minutes is not bad going with heavy packs. But | + | |
- | it was a mere trifle to Gordon and Bill, for leaving Jack to cook the dinner they walked back to help the girls up the last stages of the hill. | + | Roley was first up again next morning, rumour has it that he did not sleep so that he could be up before Jack. Camp was broken at 7-50 but the party found the walking easy, but not exceptionally interesting, |
- | Roley was first up again next morning, rumour has it that he did not sleep so that he could be up before Jack. Camp WRS broken at 7-50 but the party found the walking easy, but not exceptionally interesting, | + | |
- | spoils, to the accompaniment of unheeded protests from Roley who was forcibly prevented from interfering with the proceedings. | + | The trip over Gibraltar |
- | an injured person carry his pack always bring forth loud protests, when the distribution of the pack's contents means only a slight additional weight to each person when | + | |
- | divided among a number of willing helpers? | + | It was a great trip and to Hilma' |
- | The trip over Gilbraltar | + | |
- | into Katoomba was devoid of any exceptional incidents other than the fact that the | + | |
- | extreme heat when climbing out of the Cox Valley made the party realise that the weather | + | |
- | It was a great trip and to Hilma' | + | |
- | the knowalls who had all but prevented her from doing the trip upstream; for in their | + | |
- | opinion the safer method | + | |
So passed Eight Hour Week-end 1937. | So passed Eight Hour Week-end 1937. | ||
===== Antonio - A New Dolly Ballad. ===== | ===== Antonio - A New Dolly Ballad. ===== | ||
- | You ' | + | You ' |
- | Ant a small one kept a fried-fish shop, on a corner of a street, | + | W' |
- | Ant he' | + | Well, once he knewed a story Ma, About a fried-fish shop. \\ |
- | Ant in the afternoons, Ma, when a trade was raver slow | + | I fink you'd like to hear it Ma, if only I can stop:\\ |
- | He'd stand outside | + | One' |
- | Of how he was a big, big man, ant weighed quite eighteen stone. | + | Like the Fortune-Teller lady, we saw on Blackpool Piers.\\ |
- | "You not haf seen my Brudder, Sah?" The fried-fish man would say, "He bery bigga-da chest, Sah Da bery bigga-da thigh, | + | An' |
- | "If anyone no pay me, Sah, He swipe-.a dem in da eye, | + | An' the other' |
- | "He gotta bigga-da sailing ship tattooed onto d chest, | + | An' |
- | "Da talla-da mast, da bigga-da sail - (You like-a da lobster best?" | + | An' |
- | (Ma, why do ' | + | An' |
- | (Ant do they all have bruvers, Ma, to help 'em get a money?) Well, one day, Ma, when Anton' | + | He'd stand outside |
- | "You want-a da feesh, da oyster stack, da nice-a piece-a da brim?" The sailor asked for fish and chips an' sat down at a table, | + | An' peoples far an' wide, Ma, heard all about Anton,\\ |
- | An' ate a lot of dinner, Ma, as much as he was able. | + | Of how he was a big, big man, an' |
- | An' Anton' | + | "You not haf seen my Brudder, Sah?" The fried-fish man would say,\\ |
- | But sailor says he's got no beans, which I fink raver funny. Why are some peoples bery rich, like lickle Lottie Morgan? At others have to play for pennies on a barrel-organ? | + | "He bery bigga-da chest, Sah Da bery bigga-da thigh,\\ |
- | Well, Anton must' | + | "If anyone no pay me, Sah, He swipe a dem in da eye,\\ |
- | An' Anton says: "You gotta pay", an' a sailor says he can't, An' Anton raise his fist ant say: "I kick-a you in da pant, | + | "He gotta bigga-da sailing ship tattooed onto da chest,\\ |
- | "If you no pay, I lift you up, an' break-a you on da table - "You tink you able seaman, eh? I make you not so able! "You see da muse, da ship I got tattooed onto da chest? "I hit you-so, an squeeze you-so, an' you go sailint-west!" | + | "Da talla-da mast, da bigga-da sail - (You like-a da lobster best?" |
- | "He raisa da fist - he hit - he miss* He make-a da little slip-Sah "Da sailor hit - oh poor Anton - da-ship - he sinka da ships Sala. | + | (Ma, why do ' |
- | fink, Ma he'd be bery cross to go misout | + | (An' |
- | An' see poor Anton doubled up, an' holdin' | + | Well, one day, Ma, when Anton' |
- | I wisht if we could go an' see a friedopfish | + | "You want-a da feesh, da oyster stack, da nice-a piece-a da brim?"\\ |
- | An' that's all what the story was what Noggs the Milkman said, Ma, | + | The sailor asked for fish and chips an' sat down at a table,\\ |
- | As,t ravar Tie= feark Anllv_ | + | An' ate a lot of dinner, Ma, as much as he was able.\\ |
+ | An' Anton' | ||
+ | But sailor says he's got no beans, which I fink raver funny.\\ | ||
+ | Why are some peoples bery rich, like lickle Lottie Morgan?\\ | ||
+ | At others have to play for pennies on a barrel-organ? | ||
+ | Well, Anton must' | ||
+ | An' stands in front of sailor-man - a-twirlin' | ||
+ | An' Anton says: "You gotta pay", an' a sailor says he can't,\\ | ||
+ | An' Anton raise his fist ant say: "I kick-a you in da pant,\\ | ||
+ | "If you no pay, I lift you up, an' break-a you on da table - \\ | ||
+ | "You tink you able seaman, eh? I make you not so able! \\ | ||
+ | "You see da muse, da ship I got tattooed onto da chest?\\ | ||
+ | "I hit you-so, an squeeze you-so, an' you go sailint-west!" | ||
+ | An' Anton took his jacket off, an' made his muscles wiggle, | ||
+ | But Sailor isn't flightened, Ma, for he began to giggle. | ||
+ | An' this is how it finished, Ma, as Anton' | ||
+ | "Mine brudder Anton puff da chest until he cannot hold it,\\ | ||
+ | "He raisa da fist - he hit - he miss! He make-a da little slip-Sah | ||
+ | "Da sailor hit - oh poor Anton - da-ship - he sinka da ships Sah.\\ | ||
+ | I fink, Ma he'd be bery cross to go wisout | ||
+ | An' see poor Anton doubled up, an' holdin' | ||
+ | I wisht if we could go an' see a fried-fish | ||
+ | I'd like to hear a ' | ||
+ | |||
+ | An' that's all what the story was what Noggs the Milkman said, Ma,\\ | ||
+ | An' now I'se get my dolly eh? An wamble | ||
9th. January, 1938. | 9th. January, 1938. | ||
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Dear Madam, | Dear Madam, | ||
- | My Club noted with interest a small paragraph in your last issue on the subject of the Kanangra.Kowmung Reservation. My Club also expressed a desire to send you further information hoping that you will be able to pass it on to your Club by publishing it in the next issue of the "Bush Walker." | + | My Club noted with interest a small paragraph in your last issue on the subject of the Kanangra-Kowmung Reservation. My Club also expressed a desire to send you further information hoping that you will be able to pass it on to your Club by publishing it in the next issue of the "Bush Walker." |
At the moment, the reserve is for the preservation of native flora and fauna and its status has not yet been decided by the Government. | At the moment, the reserve is for the preservation of native flora and fauna and its status has not yet been decided by the Government. | ||
- | Mr. Arthur | + | |
- | Whilst making this explanation, | + | Mr. Arthur |
- | I am, etc., | + | |
- | J. Gibson per H.M. Nhaite. Hon Secretary, | + | Whilst making this explanation, |
- | Warrigal Club of N.S.Nr, | + | |
+ | I am, etc.,\\ | ||
+ | J. Gibson per H.M. Whaite.\\ | ||
+ | Hon Secretary,\\ | ||
+ | Warrigal Club of N.S.W. | ||
===== It's a Terrible Strain. ===== | ===== It's a Terrible Strain. ===== | ||
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The Club started the New Year badly by Hilma Galliott turning up on the official walk in a pale green silk tennis suit, or play-suit, we think they call it. As luck would have it the party bumped into the official walk of the H.H. Club, the one club above all others requiring the example of proper bushwalking efficiency. Nor was | The Club started the New Year badly by Hilma Galliott turning up on the official walk in a pale green silk tennis suit, or play-suit, we think they call it. As luck would have it the party bumped into the official walk of the H.H. Club, the one club above all others requiring the example of proper bushwalking efficiency. Nor was | ||
- | the worst. Flo Allsworth, the leader of the $.B.W., the leader, mind you, left h, rucksack behind and carried instead one of those handbags ladies use for holding baby's nappies. It is time something was done. The best thing would be an amendment of the constitution expelling all members who wear pale green silk play-suits or carry nappie-bags - anyhow if they meet. the H.H. Club or any other of the " | + | the worst. Flo Allsworth, the leader of the S.B.W., the leader, mind you, left her rucksack behind and carried instead one of those handbags ladies use for holding baby's nappies. It is time something was done. The best thing would be an amendment of the constitution expelling all members who wear pale green silk play-suits or carry nappie-bags - anyhow if they meet the H.H. Club or any other of the " |
- | breeds without the law." | + | |
- | Frances Ramsay and Vera Phillips arrived safely by the Aorangi from Canada. All except new members | + | Frances Ramsay and Vera Phillips arrived safely by the Aorangi from Canada. All except new members |
- | fleme, | + | |
- | dressmaker", | + | Three other old friends who dropped |
- | Three other old friends who dropne | + | |
- | from Melbourne, Morris Stephenson from the country, and Norrie Macdonald from some god-forsaken place where it is 20 miles to the nearest tree - probably it was to provide shade that he grew a moustache; | + | Gwen Lawrie has left Sydney to take up work in the office of the " |
- | Gwen Lawrie has left Sydney to take up work in the office of the " | + | |
- | at Katoomba. It will be a wonderful opportunity for her to teach hikers | + | Rumour has it that Norm Colton is engaged to someone |
- | mould their sins3" | + | |
- | ;- | + | We congratulate the flourishing firm of F.A. Pallin Proprietary Limited, the leading Australasian manufacturers of camp gear for walkers, on the holding of a staff picnic to mark the centenary (or was it the sesqui - or the deci-centenary? |
- | Rumour has it that Norm Colton is engaged to gomeone | + | |
- | We congratulate the flourishing firm of P.A. Pallin Proprietary Limited, the | + | The third baby boy this summer is the son of Bill and Pearl Chambers. He, baby Duncan, and baby Reilly |
- | leading Australasian manufacturers of carp gear for walkers, on the holding of a staff | + | |
- | picnic-to mark the centenary (or was it the sesqui - or the deci-centenary? | + | |
- | firm's existence. May it hike ever onward towards greater success and prosperity! | + | |
- | The third baby boy this summer is the son of Bill and Pearl Chambers. He, baby | + | |
- | Duncan, and baby Reilly | + | |
- | ;T. century hence. | + | |
- | .re | + | |
If there is and gossip that has failed to illuminate the camp-fire circle it is because the better part of " | If there is and gossip that has failed to illuminate the camp-fire circle it is because the better part of " | ||
- | 5. | ||
===== News from Here There and Everywhere. ===== | ===== News from Here There and Everywhere. ===== | ||
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The following paragraph culled from an article by a New Zealand tramper in London is of very considerable interest:- | The following paragraph culled from an article by a New Zealand tramper in London is of very considerable interest:- | ||
- | " | + | " |
==== Melbourne Men Walkers 43 Years Old and Still Young. ==== | ==== Melbourne Men Walkers 43 Years Old and Still Young. ==== | ||
- | The annual report of the Molbounlo | + | The annual report of the Melbourne |
- | taste left by that shocking motoring article in "The Melbourne Walker" | + | |
- | them. On re-union walks they seem to average about 40 and on Ladiest | + | |
- | Walkers complain that their membership grows too rapidly. Apparently clubs always covet what they have not. It would be an interesting subject for an inter-club debate, the question of whether a large or small membership is more desirable. | + | |
(Forty-third Annual Report of the Melbourne Walking and Touring Club). | (Forty-third Annual Report of the Melbourne Walking and Touring Club). | ||
==== How Hikers Bushwalk in Potomac. ==== | ==== How Hikers Bushwalk in Potomac. ==== | ||
- | Perhaps we do not often stop to think how differently the hiking or bushwalking or | + | Perhaps we do not often stop to think how differently the hiking or bushwalking or tramping (or whatever you will) movement has developed in Australia as compared with other lands. The objects of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club show that difference more clearly than do many articles: |
- | tramping (or whatever you will) movement has developed in Australia as compared with other lands. The objects of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club show that difference | + | |
- | more clearly than do many articles:- | + | "To open, develop, extend and maintain trails for walkers, mountain-climbers and nature-students in wooded and mountain regions - - and more particularly the Appalachian Trail - to construct and maintain camp sites, open shelters and permanent camps - - to collect data of interest to users of the trail concerning history, geology-, botany, forestry and wild life - - to prepare maps etc." - the rest of the objects are similar to our own. Bushwalkers often feel very superior because they need no tracks or shelters, but how many would be willing to give up one Sunday a month for a "work trip?" And do we take the trouble to acquaint ourselves with the botany, geology and forestry of the bush we pass through? This American Club has regular " |
- | "To open, develop, extend and maintain trails for walkers, mountain-climbers and nature- | + | |
- | students in wooded and mountain regions - - and more particularly the Appalachian Trail - to construct and maintain camp sites, open shelters and permanent camps - - to collect data of interest to users of the trail concerning history, geology-, botany, forestry and mild life - - to prepare maps etc." - the rest of the objects are similar | + | |
- | to our own. Bushwalkers often feel very superior because they need no tracks or shelters, | + | |
- | but how many would be willing to give up one Sunday a month for a "work trip?" And do we take the trouble to acquaint ourselves with the botany, geology and forestry of the | + | |
- | bush we pass through? This American Club has regular " | + | |
- | walking a mere five or six miles so that the members may really learn about things on | + | |
- | the way. As usual each club may learn from every other. Probably we should find their | + | |
- | walks ridiculously tame, but they could certainly run rings round us in other respects. Bulletin Potomac Appalachian Trail Club - October 1937. | + | |
==== Live Wires. ==== | ==== Live Wires. ==== |
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