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0) SULPHIDE CORPORATION PTY. LIMITED

No. 91. OCTOBER, 1958.._-=====-

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F. V. H. NETTLE

The eldest son of "Pop" Nettle, Har-court was born in the "Silver City"(Broken Hill), on 12th May 1921. Hecame to live at Cockle Creek in 1923and was educated at Boolaroo PublicSchool, Cook's Hill Intermediate High,Newcastle High School and the Uni-versity of Technology.

He joined the laboratory staff ofSulphide in January 1939and later sawservice with the R.A.A.F. from 1942till 1945.

Upon discharge he returned to Sul-phide and the lab. until his appoint-ment in 1946 as Technical Assistantto the Superintendent Roasting andAcid Plants. Harcourt was transferredto the Time Study Dept. in 19'50andtogether with John Thomas institutedthe first incentive' scheme on a pro-duction unit at these Works. Duringhis eight years in the Time StudyDept. Harcourt was to see all pro-duction units of Sulphide Corporationworking under incentive scheme con-ditions. In September this year hewas appointed to the position of StoresSuperintendent.

Harcourt has been actively engagedin other aspects here also. He wasSecretary of the Accident PreventionCommittee and the st. John Ambu-lance Class and at present is the Sec-retary of the Works Suggestion Com-mittee. .

He is an associate of the Instituteof Personnel Management.

Harcourt is married and lives atSpeers Point. His main interest besidesmotoring in the "Lancer" is fishing.

W. J. BELL

Born at Merewether in 1920, Joeis known around the Works by hisnickname of "Old Baldy." He receivedhis education at Merewether and Car-iington Public Schools.

Joe commenced work when he was14 years of age, his first job beingwith Glenrock Colliery. From therehe went to Horley's Brass Foundryat Cook's Hill. Then when he wasaged 16, he joined Lysaght's NewcastleWorks and+worked there in the millsfor 18 months.' Odd jobs then carriedhim along until hesecured employmentwith the N.S.W. Government Railwaysin 1939as a fireman. He left the Rail-ways in 1947 and came to Sulphide,where he worked at the old super.mixer under Foreman Bill Richards.Leaving us in 1948, Joe went to Bur-wood Colliery where he became a 1stclass shiftman and also gained hisLoco Drivers Certificate. From Bur-wood he went to the "Gully" Pit as aminer. Giving this away, Joe joinedPillars on the construction of "C" AcidPlant until he transferred to Sulphideonce again in 1955. He is employedat the Grinding and. Acidulating Plant.

Married to Florence Askew ofCharlestown in 1940,Joe has two sons,Darrell (aged 16) and Raymond (9).He lives at Lambton Road, Charles-town.

Whilst at school Joe representedCombined Newcastle Schools at RugbyLeague. He also played soccer withSouth Cardiff All-aged team when theywon a premiership in 1953. His onlyhobby now is gardening.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Good humour may be said to be one of the best articles of dress

one can wear in society- Thackeray

Removal of Items of plant disposed of at the auctioning of the Cement Plant has beengoing on steadily for some time now.

This picture shows portions of the kilns, which are destined to be re-erected on a worksnear Hexham, being carted away by hauliers.

STAFF MOVEMENTSAND APPOINTMENTS

The following Staff movements andappointments have recently been an-nounced.

Mr. A. Johnson formerly DeputyPrincipal, Hawkesbury AgriculturalCollege,'commenced his duties as Agri-cultural Adviser on 11th August.

Mr. F. V. H. Nettle was appointedStores Superintendent as from 8thSeptember, succeeding Mr. N. McRae,who retired from the services of theCompany on 5th September.

Mr. G. R. Croger was appointed tothe staff as Engineering ForemanAcid Plants as from 8th September.

Mr. T. Dick was appointed to thestaff as Engineering Assistant (Plan-ning), assuming these duties on 8thSeptember.

We extend hearty congratulations toeach of these gentlemen and wish themthe best of luck in their new vocations.

VACANCY

APPRENTICEFITTER AND TURNER

Boys holding an IntermediateCertificate, or who will be sittingfor their Intermediate Examin-ation this year and are desirousof being apprenticed to the tradeof fitting and turning are invitedto apply for a vacancy which willbecome available at Sulphide Cor-poration.

This is an opportunity to gainvaluable experience with an ex-panding and modern ChemicalWorks whilst learning a trade.It would be particularly suitable toa lad who resides locally and hasthe necessary qualifications.

Applications in writing are tobe addressed to, The WorksManager, Sulphide CorporationPty. Limited, P.O. Box 42,Boolaroo, 2N.

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In recent years the phrase High-

Fidelity, or Hi-Fi, has become a com-

mon expression and frequently bandied

about in connection with the sound

reproduction of records and record

players, 'grams, tape-recorders, radio

and TV sets ... Here, Jeff Dick of

the Recorded Music Club presents

some enlightening facts on

WHAT IS HIGH FIDELITY?High fidelity, in broad terms, refers

to the re-creation of sound so that itresembles closely the original expres-sion of that sound.

In the technical sense, many factorscontribute to this life-like realism.One of the most important of theseis the range of frequencies that isfaithfully reproduced. Some musicalinstruments can produce tones lowerthan 30 cycles per second-the pianovibrates to27 c.p.s. Other instruments,like the organ, extend even lower than.this.

At the high end of the frequencyscale, the hearing varies from personto person. For many people, this limitgoes beyond 15,000 c.p.s. We shouldnote that, apart from harmonics,5,000c.p.s. is about the highest fundamentaltone an instrument can produce.

Now, no instrument produces "pure"tones, which are uninteresting. Dis-tinctive instrumental colour lies in theharmonics or overtones. These helpto make the piano sound like a piano,the trumpet sound like a trumpet. Therange of the overtones extends from40

c.p.s. to 16,000 C.p.S.

If wide range equipment has alwaysbeen important for high fidelity results,why has interest in such equipmentgained unprecedented prominence onlyduring recent years? The answer liesin this fact. You cannot get morefidelity out of any system than youput into it. Up to the end of WorldWar n, the available sources of soundwere limited in frequency range.

Old type 78 r.p.m. records and aver-age broadcasts 'rarely exceed5,000 C.p.S.When they did, accompanying back-ground noise in the upper frequenciesmasked high frequency musical sounds.Hi-Fi reproducers, which faithfully re-created noise and distortion, did notfind favour. In fact, response wasoften limited deliberately to eliminatenoise.

In the years after World Warn, ar a p i d sequence of developmentschanged the listening climate. Theadvent of fine-groove plastic recordsand the refinement of magnetic re-corders made possible a source ofmaterials that were wide in range, butlow in noise and distortion.

Today, the limited range of the con-ventional radio or radiogram is notacceptable to the Hi-Fi lover. Roomfilling deep tones cannot be felt. Thetinkle of the triangle, the in-the-roomcrash of the cymbals and the brillianceof the violins come through as a com-bination of muddy sounds. But a high-fidelity system brings all these livingsounds into the home withtrieir orig-inal clarity and colour.

Average broadcasts and old 78 r.p.m.records cover a range of from100 to5.000 c.p.s.; many modern records,50

to 10,000 C.p.S.; improved modernrecords, 30 to 18,000 c.p.s. The averagehome radio or radiogram is capableor reproducing sounds within the rangeof 100 to 5,000 c.p.s.; while a highfidelity reproducing system can repro-duce sounds between20 and 20,000c.p.s.

J. J. Dick

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Before his staff appointment, Norriewas Secretary of Sulphide Employees'Union for about 10 years. He was alsoone of the principal organisers andplayed a leading part in the establish-ment of the Welfare Club.

The entertainment arranged for thisfavewell was well up to the highstandard which has been a feature ofrecent functions.

Sulphide's own "Les Girls" made awelcome re-appearance and the bril-liant miming act of the RobertsonBrothers would rate a spot in anycompany. In addition there werevocalists Joan Johnson and JackSmith, who also played the saxophone,and pianist Mrs. Fogo who, as usualprovided grand support. General Officepersonality Clarrie Roberts ably fittedinto the scheme of things as compereand did a first-class job.

The catering and refreshment ar-rangements were also of a high orderand contributed their part to makingthe evening such a success.

"Cockle Creek News" joins with allthose other Sulphiders who took ad-vantage of the occasion in offeringNorrie McRae "Best wishes for a longand happy retirement."

STAFF MEMBERS FAREWELL NORRIEMcRAE ON EVE OF HIS RETIREMENT

AT THE WELFARE CLUB HALL ON FRIDAY 5th SEPTEMBER, CHIEFSTOREKEEPER, NORRIE McRAE WAS THE GUEST OF HONOUR AT ASEND-OFF ARRANGED BY THE STAFF SOCIAL CLUB ON THE OCCASIONOF HIS RETIREMENT FROM SULPHIDE CORPORATION.

The presence of so many staff and retired staff members and as guests,employees of the Store and Sulphide Employees' Union representatives testifiedeloquently to the esteem in which Norrie was held in all quarters of the Works.

During the course of the evening thegift of a mantel radio was made toNorrie on behalf of the staff by WorksManager, Mr. J. H. Standish. To Mr.Standish's address and presentationNorrie aptly responded.

This was the second occasion thatNorrie had been so honoured that day.Earlier, the other members of the Storehad got together and made a surprisepresentation to him. (see 'Around theDepartments') .

At the time of his retirement Norriehad a long and loyal association of42 years with Sulphide Corporation.

Born at Newcastle in 1896 he com-menced work here in April 1916. Fourmonths later he enlisted in the 3rdDivision A.I.F. and served with the 34thBattalion in France. After the cess-ation of hostilities he was posted toA.I.F. Headquarters, London, asorderly-room sergeant in 1919, re-maining there until 1920, when hereturned to Australia.

Upon discharge he returned to Sul-phide's Engineering Dept. in September1920. Appointed to the staff asAssistant Storekeeper in January 1942,he became Storekeeper on 31st July1951.

Mr. N. (Norrie) 1\lcRaewith Mr. J. H. Standish.

Opposite page: Somephotographic impressions

of the evening.

ABOUND THESTORE

by "Pedro"

On the eve of his re-tirement fro m here,Norrie McRae was ten-dered a farewell gift ofan Esky Portable Coolerby the other Storepersonnel (see picture).We wish him all the bestin his retirement andtrust that his contempla-ted car tour brings himthe pleasure he expectsit to.

Coinciding with the re-vival of the old song hit"In Your Green Hat,"blow me down if BobDavies hasn't gone outand bought himself one!

. He looks kinda cutein it too!! L. to R. Messrs. H. Nettle, R. Davies, W. Stoddart, T. Adamson,

W. Bull, N. McRa.e and P. Grew.

Congratulations to Arthur Sullivanwho has once again been elected tothe Lake Macquarie District AmbulanceBoard.

Mrs. Bull, wife of our popular WaIter,has had rather a bad time of thingsthrough illness recently. We sincerelytrust that she is well on the road torecovery by the time this "News" isout.

ACIDby "A. L. Ert"

Wouldn't it! . . . Frank Storey hadno sooner arrived back at the "Creek"from his wanderings to Broken Hilland other industrial centres than hewas stricken with the mumps.

Question: "Who is the Acid Dep-artment personality from Young Wal-Isend who stands and waves to R.A.A.F.jet aircraft when they flyover hishome?" ...

Answer: "Vic Jenkins!" The Reason:Vic's son is now at the WilIiamtownR.A.A.F. Station and when flying outthis way generally manages to pass hisparents' place and dip his wings insalute.

"Mick" Wolter is as "happy as Larry"that the latest member of the Welterhousehold is a girl. Previously Mick'sfamily were all boys.

Jack Lee is apparently still main-taining his "run of outs." His wifewon a lottery ticket from him as aresult of the recent Stewart v. Vaughnfight in Sydney Jack pickedStewart!! ! How wrong can you getJack?

Holiday-bent at the time of writingare, Joe Henderson, "Dick" Cole, BobChedzey and "Snow" Rumsby.

Mick Ristich is now the proud ownerof a Jowett Javelin . . . She's "oil"right now, eh Mick! - Speaking ofcars, the latest addition to the ranksof the motoring fraternity here is BertMasters, who has acquired a Vauxhall.

Returning from a country trip rec-ently, Peter Smedley and his wife wereinvolved in a nasty accident when theircar got into loose gravel and rolled

DEPARTMENTSover near Merriwa. Although Peterwas extremely fortunate in escapingwith comparatively minor injuries, Mrs.Smedley was not so lucky, in that shewas much more seriously injured . . .We extend our sympathy to them bothand wish them a full and speedy re-covery to good health.

Last month saw Barry Fitzpatrick,playing his usual good game, win hisfirst golf trophy at the WaratahCourse. It's a pity that these are gain-ed at the expense of a cut in handicap,don't you agree, Barry?

The "old bodge" (Andy Fothering-ham) made an almost instantaneousreturn to good health from a recentsickness on receiving a "get well" cardfrom some solicitous person - The onlymystery is, "who dunnit?"

Jack Raw, whose hobby is the grow-ing of orchids, is reported to be havingconsiderable success with his blooms.

When he trod on a nail recently,Perce Brown suffered a painful injurywhich necessitated several days treat-ment at home.

We would like to offer our con-gratulations to Acid Dept. personalitiesBert Dick and Tom Burgin who werereturned as members of Lake Mac-quarie District Ambulance Board atthe recently held elections.

MAIN OFFICE

On the 29th August a large crowdgathered at the Drawing Office to say"farewell" to Technical Librarian, VeItaLee (see photo page 8), on the eveof her resignation from Sulphide Cor-poration. Velta who had been with usfor 4~ years, was a popular memberof the staff and we sincerely wish herall the best for the future.

Whilst in the realm of the Library,we would like to take the opportunityof extending a hearty welcome toVelta's successor, Mrs. Lois Greenwell,who commenced her duties here on the8th September.

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Humble apologies Beryl MooreBeryl by the way, has now returnedto work following the illness whichincapacitated her for several weeks.

Holidayers at the moment are DennisMartin and Elaine Hocking'.

BUILDING

We don't know whether "Tich"ElIiott was dissatisfied with his com-panions on a previous visit to theSnowy Mountains regions but he hasjourneyed there once again to takein the sights, this time accompanied byhis brother and nephew. A rathercomprehensive itinerary was plannedtaking in Canberra, Cooma, The SnowyScheme, Yerangabilly Caves, then re-turning to the Coast via Tumut andMoss Vale. No doubt we will behearing many anecdotes on variousaspects of the trip!

Keith ColIinson has been on thereceiving end of quite a few jests sinceit was learned that he now has atelephone installed at his home. Onewag jocularly suggested that the besttime to ring him was after 10 p.m.!

The things we have to suffer!!! ...Edgar Hall already beset by paintingand language difficulties, could perhapsbe pardoned for any vehement denun-ciations he may have made when ahail-storm battered this locality re-cently and ruined his crop of peaches.

Ern Wilson's son also suffered bythis same storm we are told. He had1,400 lettuce nearly ready to pick andlost the lot . . . There's no doubt theelements can be unkind at times, tosay the least!

Hearing George Hague called"TANK" prompted the writer to askwhy? ... However to those who havetaken note of George's physique recent-ly, the nickname is an obvious oneand would require no explanation! .•.It appears that George has given upsmoking, and brother, if he keeps ongaining weight as at present then

(Continued on page 8)

Daughters of two ofour members, KeithCollinson and JeffDick, have close tieswith our "Cockle CreekNews." Both of thesegirls are employed atour printers, Davies& Cannington Pty.Limited and in thecourse of their dutiespreview the "News"before Dad sees it!

AROUND THE DEPARTMENTS - (Continued from page 7)

Velta Lee

he'll make Man-Mountain Dean, KingKong and all the other "grunt andgroaners" look like a race of pygmies!!.

Bob Forster is a devoted TV fanthese days.

Denbigh Williams was as "pleased aspunch" over the performances of hisschoolboy football teams at Adamstownrecently. Danny has put in somegeed work with these lads.

One has to be careful around theCarpenters' Shop when the shavingmachine is in operation nowadays oryou are liable to find yourself beingsucked up the flue with the shavings... It certainly is efficient!! - Per-haps as a safety measure all carpenterscould be issued with lead-soled bootssimilar to deep-sea divers.

The crib-time crib game managed tostruggle along and surmount the ob-stacle of having one of the star(?)players away for a time. Its plot andcounter plot as Master Strategists JeffDick and Edgar Hall vie for pointsfor their teams.

One of the keenest sporting devoteesin this department is undoubtedly RayJames. Ray, an all-the-year-roundsportsman, follows soccer in the Winterand cricket during the Summer. Heis a great booster of local teamsand with his enthusiasm and good workon their behalf, plays a leading partin the administrative affairs of Lake

ENGINEERINGby "Bimbo"

At the time of writingMachine Shop foremanBert Fogo is away onholidays T his hasprompted a remark bya wag in the Shop thatthe only time some ofthem hear of him he iseither on holidays orjust returning fromthem!

Macquarie Soccer Club and West LakesCricket Club.

We wish a speedy recovery to HaroldHerbert of the Rigging Gang who isill in hospital as a result of a nastyaccident.

Frank Sherring (Riggers) who is offto Boggabri to spend his holidays haspromised to bring back a cockatoo andsome witchety grubs for Bert Walker(B. & T. Hand).

Fitter Bill Radcliffe has unfortunate-ly had to enter hospital for a spell. Wesincerely trust that you will soon beyour old self again, Bill. You'd betterhurry up mate, so you can put thatmower back together again!

We extend best wishes for an earlyrecovery to Mrs. Connelly, wife ofpopular Chas. Connelly (Fitters Asst.),who recently underwent a serious op-eration.

TRAFFIC AND YARD

With our loco's down for overhaulthe loco boys are carrying on the goodwork (and incidently having a greattime in the process) with hired N.S.W.Government Railways loco No. 1909...From appearances that could have beenthe year it went into service too!!!

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Sulphide Welfare ClubGENERAL

The main item of interest at thepresent time is the forthcoming Workspicnic to be held at Toowoon Bay onFriday, 31st October.

Although the attendance at themeeting to form a Picnic Committeeon 16th September was rather dis-appointing, what was lacking innumbers was made up for in the en-thusiasm of those who were there.

Various officials were elected, butas an event of this nature entails alot or organisation and hard work,there is still plenty of room for willingworkers.

The two events to which both thekiddies and the adults look forwardto during the year, are the Picnicand the Christmas Tree and it behoveseach and everyone of us to do all inour power to see that both are an un-qualified success.

The Picnic is only three weeks off,so let's get together and make it aday that all will remember. A furthermeeting is to be held on Tuesday next,14th October at 3.45 p.m. Perhapsyou may have a suggestion to offerthat would add to the day's enjoyment

. The Club is being put to consider-able expense, so help see that themoney is wisely spent.

CLUBHOUSE

A special meeting was held on the29th September to discuss the pos-sibility of curtailing the bar hours,but in view of the approaching warmerweather and the anticipated increasingactivity in the Bowling and Cricketsections, the committee overwhelminglydecided to make no alteration at pres-ent. However this is a matter whichcould be given further thought whenthe winter months are with us again.

STOP PRESSThe Picnic Committee has decided

to make an allowance of ten shillingsper car to each member arranginghis or her own transport to the WorksPicnic. This will compensate to someextent for petrol used and can becolfected from the Treasurer on thePicnic ground.

However, car users must advise Mr.B. Davies one week prior to the Picnicto qualify for this payment. By of-fering this concession the Committeehopes tc be able to conserve on buses,of which only a sufficient number toseat picnickers indicated on lists circu-lated throughout the various depart-ments will be engaged.

-C. H. Roberts, Hon. Sec.

BOWLING CLUB

The Gala Day arranged by SulphideBowling Club to assist the dependentsof our late member, Doug. Sylvester,was held at Teralba Bowling Club'sGreen on Sunday 21st September.

Rinks from the N.D.B.A., Teralba,Boolaroo, Charlestown and SulphideClubs were in attenda.nce and con-tributed to making the day a hugesuccess.

Results of the day's play were asfollows-

Winning rink, Lance Hawkins (skip-per), C. Burgin, K. McLaughlin, M.Ryan.

Runners-up, D. Calland (skipper), M.Edwards, A. George and L. Collins.

The Consolation winners wereJ.Roche's Teralba Rink, and the DutchAuction went to Frank Galbraith, alsoof Teralba.

Once again we mustSocial Secretary, Reganother mighty job ofthis occasion.

In this regard we also offer ourheartfeld thanks to Teralba Club forunselfishly putting their green at ourdisposal in order that we could stagethis benefit day Thank you,Teralba.

commend ourDuggan, for

organising on

On 26th August we journeyed to Ray-mond Terrace Club for a social gameand were entertained to a wonderfulday by this grand bunch of sports-men.

It was whilst attending this outingthat we learned of our President, "Biff"Ingham's prowess as an authority oncolouf aesthetics. His discourse onthis matter was a gem, during whichhe lucidly described a new colour "NipPink" to perfection!

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SULPHIDE WELFARE CLUB - Continued from page 9

Billy McBlane was successful in win-

ning a consultation which was held

during the day.

Here is a record to be proud of ...We have in our Club a player who haswon every Club Trophy that is com-peted for annually. This player is Eric

Burgin, who is employed in the Elect-rical Department . . . Eric has won

the Club Singles Championship, run-ner-up Club Singles, Club Pairs, run-ner-up Club Pairs, The ConsistencyTrophy, Inter-departmental Champion-ship, runner-up Inter-departmental

Championship .. Well done Eric, by

now the trophy cabinet should bepretty near full, we'd say.

Partnered by Ken Porter, Eric isagain in the Club Pairs final this year.This is to be played on the new green

shortly.

Fast becoming one of our Club'sbest leads is up-and-coming Acid Plantcove Mick Maxwell - Keep it up Mick,the best. of luck and be up with them.

Incidentally, it has been passed on

to me that Mick's brother-in-law BasilWoseen is getting pretty wrapped upDrake's game also.

W. Gibson.

BADMINTON CLUBInterest in Badminton appears to be

growing from week to week and the

ranks of our players have been con-siderably swelled by the infusion of new

players recently . . . However, in this

regard, we would like to see a few moreof the "weaker sex" come along andjoin forces with us. (Female staff

members and others, take note!).

Newcomers whom we have had thepleasure of welcoming into the Club

recently are, Ted and Mrs. Forster,Henry and Mrs. Hodgson, Barry Sin-

clair, Bernie Berthold and DaveWilliams.

The addition of these new playersmeans more competition and variety

of play for members to contend with.This will no doubt be beneficial to all

and should result in a continuallyimproving standard of play.

Speaking of an improved standard,

HiIlary Croger has noticeably raisedher play in recent weeks and is nowplaying a very good game indeed

Congratulations HiIlary, keep up thegood work.

On one of our playing nights a short

time back we experimented with theuse of a plastic shuttle. It did notprove highly successful however, theflight of the shuttle being too hardto control with the restricted roomavailable on our court.

With our annual Christmas Partycoming up in a couple of months or so,

members are already Iooking forwardto this function which this year shouldbe a "bumper" on account of our influxof new members.

-D. C.

RECORDED MUSIC CLUB

Mr. Reg. Hodgins presented a variedprogramme on Friday 19th September.

Mozart's 35th Symphony (Haffner)

by the London Philharmonic Orchestraand Concerto for Trumpet and Orches-tra by Haydn with Helmut Wobitsch-

trumpet and the Vienna State OperaOrchestra were chosen as the mainworks.

"Devotion" by Schumann with ArthurRubenstein, "Solveig's Song" by Galli-Curci, "Song of the Flea" by Chaliapin(bass), "Loch Lomond" and "The

Youth of the Heart" by So/dney Mac-Ewan (tenor) made up a very enjoy-able programme.

-J. J.D.

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VISITINGPERSONALITIES

Right: Mr. J. Liebelt, Mines Superin-

tendent, The Zinc Corporation Limited,

Broken Hill, paid us a visit recently.

He is shown here (right) inspecting

the product of the Broadfield super-

phosphate mixer with Mr. John

Reynolds.

Lower: Mr. Derek Mendyl, Personnel

Manager, Courtaulds (Aust.) Limited,

Tomago, was also here for a short time'

and is pictured (on the right), with

Mr. John :rhomas.

AROUND THE DEPARTMENTSWe are glad to report that Jack

Linsley has returned to work followinghis recent illness and is once again"doing the rounds."

(Continued from page 8)Jimmy Donohue hit the headlines

recently when his picture appearedin the Newcastle Sun showing him atbasketmaking class.

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Top. (Left) John Garaty sends one down. (Right) Merv. Beck andROD Howre going outto open for the Staff. Lower. A view of the match in progress.

CRICKET - STAFF V WORKSThe first match of this season between teams

representing the Works and the Staff wasplayed on the Sulphide Oval on Sunday, 21stSeptember.

For the first time since the inauguration ofthese games, we report a win for the Staff by58 runs. This was also the first occasion onwhich Jim Scarfe has not played!

Sent in to bat by the Works Captain, BertDick, the Staff team replied by scoring 126.John Reyr.olds being top-scorer with 25 runs.In reply the Works team totalled 68, BertDick topping the score with 24 runs.

Lunch was provided by the wives of CricketClub members and was taken at the WelfareHall. Refreshmcnts were donated by theWelfare Club.

During the afternoon-tea break presentationswere made of trophies won 'in the 1957/58season by menibers of Sulphide Welfare Cricke'tClub. These were presented by Mr. J. H.Standish, who was called upon by the Club'sPatron, Clarrie Roberts to perform the task.

There is no doubt that congratulations mustgo to the curator of the oval, Sam Skelly, for

the manner in which the wicket played andsteod up to the conditions for so early in theseason.

Detailed results were as follows:-STAFF- Beck, c. Maxwell, b. Garaty 17;

Howie. c. Maxwell, b. Garaty, 2; Stand ish,retired hurt, 19; Connelly, b. Robertson, 0;Davies c. and b. Dick, 21; Reynolds, b. Garaty,20; Crawford, b. Robertson, 7; Johnston, b.Robertson, 15; Collfnson, b. Robertson, 7;Williams, b. Garaty, 2; Hodgins, n.o., 7;!'lundries, 4. Total 126.

Bowling' Garaty 4/37, Robertson 4/49,Lee 0/19, B. Dick 1/17.

WORKS:- Dick, c. Williams, b. Howie, 24;Armstrong, b. Williams, 2; Rice, b. Wllliams,9; Garaty, l.b.w. Williams, 0; Greig, b.Williams, 4; Robertson, b. Howie, 0; Raw,n.o., 21; Lee, c. Hodgins, b. Howie, 2; Maxwell,b. Williams, 0; Wolter, c. Reynolds, b.Connelly, 2; Wilson, c. CoBinson, b. Standish,2; Sundries, 2. Total 68.

Bowling: Howie 3/21, Williams 5/21,Crawford 0/9, Reynolds 0/5, Connelly 1/3, andStand ish 1/7.

Davies & Cannington Pty Ltd., T.lrinters, King St., Newcastle.