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Asfnews64.Pdf The Australian Speleological Federation was founded In 1956 The Federation is governed by a committee consisting of a delegate Uto further speleology In all Its aspects on a national level to from. each member society. Meetings are held annually, each second gather together Australian speleolo~lsts and formulate national meeting being. c~upled with a convention open to any Interested policies in furtherance of these alms. ' person: Contmulng activities are administered by permanent Publications Include ASF NEWSLETTER (quarterly) commISSions, while special aspects of policy are the subject of ad PROCEEDIN.GS (biennially) AUSTRALJAN SPELEOLOGY hoc studY committees. (annually - more or less), SPELEO HANDBOOK (an encyclopaedic The Federation represents Australia on the International Union of "York on speleology In Australia) and Irregular reports on matters of Speleology. timely concern, chiefly conservation matters. Correspondents are requested, wherever pOSSible, to direct enquiries to the relevant office-bearer or member society. AUSTRALIAN SPELEOLOC~ICAL FEDERATION. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OFFICERS president ELERY HAMILTON·SMITH P.O. Box 36, Carlton South, Victoria 3053 vice-presidents WARWICK COUNSELL LEX BROWN 45 Nelson St., Corinda. Qld. 4075 SID ROACH ~5 Soencer St•• Kelmscott. WA 6111 secretary ANTHONY CULBERG P.O. Box 47, SandY Bay, Tas. 7005 aSsistant-secretary LOUISE MAHONY P.O. BoX 926, Canberra City, 2600 treasurer JOHN TAYLOR c/o D.M.R., P.O. Box 399, Bega, N.S.W. 2550 CONVENORS OF COMMISSIONS P.O. Box 269, Sandy Bay, Tas. 7005 bibliography GREGORY MIDDLETON biological ELERY HAMILTON·SMITH P.O. Box 36, Carlton South, Victoria 3053 cave safety LLOYD ROBINSON 167 Mount Kiera Road, Mount Kelra, N.S.W. 2500 speleo handbook PETER MATTHEWS 66 Frogmore Crescent, Park Orchards, Victoria 3114 international relations ELERY HAMILTON-SMITH P.O. Box 36, Carlton South, Victoria 3053 and JOHN DUNKLEY 599 Warrlngah Rd., Frenchs Forest, N.S.W. 2086 library SANDRA HALBERT 52 Bundock Street, Randwlck, N.S.W. 2.031 longest and deepest caves ROSS ELLIS 17 Hedges Ave, South Strathfleld, NSW 2136 newsletter PAUL MURPHY conservation WARWICK COUNSELL School of Surveylng .!Jnlverslty of N.S.W., Kensington 2033. survey standards EDWARD ANDERSON "44 McCault Street Tarlnga, Queensland 4068 ethics HENRY SHANNON School of Physics, Un! of NSW, PO Box 1, KenSington 2033 uaustralian speleology" ANDREW PA VEY CONVENORS OF AD HOC COMMITTEES 66 Frogmore Crescent, Park Orchards, Victoria 3114 cave documentation PETER MATTHEWS P.O. Box 36, Carlton South, Victoria 3053 cave tourism ELERY HAMILTON-SMITH Hastings Caves, Tas 7116 and ROY SKINNER 56 Cronin St., Annerley Qld 4103 tenth convention ANN GRAHAME P.O. Box 373, Potts Point, NSW 2011 membershit:' structure BENJAMIN NURSE CONVENORS OF STATE LIAISON COUNCILS ANDREW PA VEY SchOOl of Physics, Unl of NSW, PO Box 1, KenSington 2033 COMMITTEE MEMBERS css CANBERRA SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY , P.O. Box 530, Canberra City 2600 nucc NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CA VING CLUB c/o Sports Union, Australian National University Canberra 2600 bmsc BLUE MOUNTAINS SPELEOLOGICAL CLUB P.O. Box 37 Glenbrook, N.S.W. 2773 hcg HIGHLAND CA VING GROUP 44 King Street, St. Marys, N.S.W. 2760 iss ILLAWARRA SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY P.O. Box 94, Unanderra, N.S.W. 2526 kss KEMPSEY SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY 2 Albert Street, Kempsey N.S.W. 2440 muslg MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY SPELEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION GROUP c/o Sports Assoc, Macquarle Unl, North Ryde 2113 mss METROPOLITAN SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY P.O. Box E120, St. James, N.S.W. 2000 oss ORANGE SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY P.O. Box 752, Orange, N.S.W. 2800 sss SYDNEY SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY P.O. Box 198, Broadway, N.S.W. 2007 suss SYDNEY UNIVERSITY SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Box 35, The Union Unl. of Sydney, N.S.W. 2006 unswss UNIVERSITY OF N.S. W. SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY Box 17 t !he Union, unl. of N.S.W., KenSington! 2033 cqss CENTRAL QUEENSLANDS SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY· 214 North Stree~! Rockhampton, Queenslana 4700 uqss UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND SPELEOLOGICAL SOCIETY . The Union, unl. of Queensland St. Lucia 4067 cegsa CA V'E EXPLORATION GROUP (SOUTH AUSTRALIA) South Australian Museum.!. North Terrace, Adelaide, S.A. 5000 scs SOUTHERN CA VING SOCIETY P.u. Box 121 Moonah, Tasmania 7009 tee TASMANIAN CA VERNEERING CLUB G.P.O. Box 641G, Hobart, Tasmania 7001 vsa VICTORIAN SPELEOLOGICAL A SS0 CIA TION G.P.O. Box 5425cc, MelbOUrne, Victoria 3001 wasg WESTERN AUST,RALIAN SPELEOLOGICAL GROUP G.P.O. Box 51349, Perth, Western Australia 6001 nc NORTHERN CA VERNEERS P.O. Box 315, Launceston, Tas 7250 ASSOCIATE MEMBERS c/o Bermagui Country Club, Bermagul, NSW 2547 bsa BERMAGUI SPELEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 250, Mona Vale, NSW 2103 psg PENINSULA SPELEOLOGICAL GROUP Box A2, G.P.O., Perth, Western Australia 6001 srgwa SPELEOLOGICAL RESEARCH GROUP W.A. t Number 64, Winter 1974 CON TEN T S Editorial c • 1 Notices 2 TCC EXPEDITION TO CRACROFT, 1975 • Andrew Skinner 2 CONSERVATION AND THE GORDON RIVER Kevin Kiernan 3 SOLUTION STUDIES, Y46 CATCHMENT, YARRANGOBILLY • Joe Jennings 8 A SURVEY OF CAVE~DWELLING BATS Les Hall & J.D. Dunsmore 9 KARSt GLEN CAVES Richard Ladynski 11 CAVES OF AUSTRALIA Noo 9 KUbla Khan Cave, Tasmania. Andrew Skinner 12 AN OPEN LETTER • c 0 (on Histoplasmosis) • Dr D. Frey 15 ACCESS TO EXIT CAVE Andrew Skinner 16 DOWN UNeER ALL OVER. News from around the Societies 17 E D ITO R I A L "I have never given a thought to conservation or pollution in an¥ project I have undertaken. All I am interested in is getting the ore out as quickly as poss1ble and selling it. There is no limit, to the amount of ore and we have to turn it into sash.. If there is any mess left, somebody can clean it up afterwards." (Lang Hancock, April 1970) "To allow any particular river to flow into the west coast sea whenthere are rainfalls up to 150in a year to harness in this day and age would be a crime against mankind" (Eric Reece, February 1974) "Tasmanians can look forward to the future with confidence, according to the Premier (mr Reece) (The Mercury, 20 May 1974) Roll up folks, the hillbilly season is off to a flying start. As though we didn't have enough already with Gerrymander Joh6Mr Twenty percent) and Co., the Libs are back in W.A. and the Honoura_le Eric has found another remote corner of Tasmania to introduce to the 20th Century. Noticed the accelerating number and variety of conservation problems with which we're having to deal? D'you know what their strasegy must be? Feint to the right, throw up a few more for the conservat10nists to knock down, and meanwhile the backroom boys have smuggled last year's precipitous Bluff out the back door. EDITORIAL AWARDS, 1973 _ With space here at a premium, I don't want a long dissertation; so here we are: The Best c.lub Newsletter was, again, ~ (UNSWSS), edited by Andrew J, Pavey. Best ASF Newsletter article w~nt. to the Report.of th~ Ad Hoc Committee on Cave Conservation (convenor Andrew spate). Very l(J.ttle except my b1ased Judgement perhaps separated ~ from the runners-up, w~stern Cayer very much 1mproved), SSS JouDnal, and Down Under. Cave of the year? Awarded Jointly and severally to Bungonia Caves, Wh1ch were scarcely out of the news all year following monumental legal battles by Warwick Counsell, and equally monumental feats of organization by SSS to bring the case to the attention of the public .% . ! . 2 A S F NEW S LET T E R 64 (1974) NOT ICE S TENTH B[[NNIAL CONFERENCE , December 1974, Brisbane The Tenth Biennial Conference of the Australian Speleological Federation will be held at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, from 27 -;0 December, 1974. Field trips will be available to Mt Etna - limestone Ridge, Kempsey and Texas by private transport, and to Camooweal and Chillagoe where wet weather conditions may impose group transport (remember the plan to charter a DC;? - ed.) By all accounts of the organization, this promises to be the greatest gathering ever of Australian speleos~()r$ymposia, discussions, films and slides, displays and demonstrations, and the new, improved S PEL E 0 S P 0 R T S (Can you beat that tough SSS-UNSWSS-TCC teams?) No evening sessions instead, films s slides and yak around the KEG. All on the ASF mailing lists should by now have received a more detailed circular about the Conference. Further information may be obtained from UQSS at this address : The '74 ASF conference Committee, p.O. Box 29, ANNERLEY, Qld. 410; THINK ABOUT IT NOW START MAKING YOUR PLANS. Want to go to Tassie instead, eh? Well, there should be NO trouble fitting, both in, and you should not even have trouble getting a ride Qack from Brisbane to Melbourne after the conferenoe. You oan see Tassie any time. Go to de oave oon tho. MASTER PLAN FOR DEVELOPMENT OF JENoLAN CAVES A• S • F. I n V it ad The Federation has reoeived an offioial invitation to partioipate in the p~eparation of a master plan for the development of the Jenolan Caves Reserve, inoluding objeotive technioal advioe, opinions and oriti01sms. The development plan is intended to oover all aspeots of the Caves Reserve, inoluding not only the problem of providing aocommodation, parking and anc1l1ary facilities for the anticipated oontinuing 1norease in visitor usage but also, presuma6ly, what should be left untouched. A Sub-committee to prepare sUbmissions will be established at the July meeting of the NSW Liaison Council of the Federation. At press time this had not been held and for this reason enquiries may be direoted to Mr L. Rieder, 20 Fig Tree st, Lane Cove, NSW 2066. Tel.
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