Portable wartime petrol pipeline aids Allied advance
Shell's 20 foot portable pipeline, developed by Sydney Smith, proved key in moving fuel to front lines. Lighter, easy to lay, and capable of 6,000 barrels daily, it operated from Burma Road hopes to North Africa, surviving bomb strikes and shifting pumps every 10 miles as needed.
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Shell
America
Sydney Smith
Shell Company
Middle West
China
Burma Road
Smith
Chinese Defence Corporation
John H. Hall
East Line
U.S. Army
Mr. Smith
Shenandoah Valley
North Africa
Tunisia
Sicily
Boorooroo Centre High School Annual Concert and Prize Giving
High attendance filled Institute Hall for the Boorooroo Centre Annual Concert and Prize Giving. Prizes went to Allan Clarke and Dean Christopher duxes, with Rex Jettner, Claire Gillett, Gordon Schiller, and others receiving honours. The headmaster B H Sage noted a 77 enrolment, a 64.8 average attendance, and visits from Old Scholars returning from service. The program featured choir items, piano and violin solos, acting sketches, a quadette, senior girls dance, and a finale of dancing.
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Institute Hall
Allan Clarke
Dean Christopher
Rogers and
Dunstan
Rex Jettner
Claire Gillett
Gordon Schiller
Beryl Sanders
Hazel Reichstein
Nancy Bliegschke
Jude Smith
Judith Slee
Valda Woolford
Lewis Woolford
B. H. Sage
Gladstone
Jamestown
the Isles
John Brown
Tschaikowsky
Fay Williams
Joyce Warne
Pauline Smith
Trevor Fuller
Mark Smith
Marlene Clifton
Murray Smith
Gerald Griffin
Jessie Ware
Fred Coad
Keith Mount
Brahm
Strauss
Jack Groves
M.C
Orelescrs
Nancy Blieshhire
Don Noblet
A. BR. Tuck
Dr Hill Visits Laura for Mother's Day Sermon
Dr Hill president general of the Australian Baptist Union preached at Laura Baptist Church on May 12 praising how God turns trials into blessings. He highlighted a missionary who trained, went to China, and was killed early in his work. A US meeting yielded 117 volunteers. Performances by Miss Dorothy Shillabeer and Marjory Smith and by Miss D Hale and Mrs J Boahm complemented Mothers Day events.
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Dr. Hill
The
Australian Baptist Union
Laura Baptist Church
China
America
Dorothy Shillabeer
Marjory Smith
Obituary of William Oldland Pioneer of Melrose Community
William Joseph Oldland 76 died recently after a life spent in Melrose and surrounding areas. He worked as a shepherd, drover in the North, and head coach and colt breaker at Mt Remarkable Station. He served the SAR during railway construction and ran the SA Farmers Union agency until weeks before his death. He was a Rifle Club member and Mt Remarkable Agricultural Bureau life member, helped secure grounds for the Agricultural Society, and married Matilda Smith forty eight years ago. Survived by wife, daughter Mrs L Fowler of Plymouth, three grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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William Joseph Oldland
Melrose
Mt. Remarkable
S.A.R
S.A. Farmers Union
Portable pipelines aided Allied offensive in Europe
Portable pipelines connected to the Pluto line under the English Channel carried gasoline from Cherbourg and Bomogne east to the Rhine. A second line ran along the Rhone Valley supplying Allied forces in the South of France, deemed a factor of high importance to successful offensives.
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France
Pluto
English Channel
Cherbourg
Bomogne
Rhine
Rhone
Haseen
Shell
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R. J. Finlayson, Limited
Christian Science Monitor
Christan Sejenes Publishing
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Sydney
Australis
Magalies Berties
Lee Eh
National Library of Australia
Booleroo
Booleroo Centre
Ethel Pascoe
Cross Street
Eley Brothers
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E. A. Gale & Sons Builders, Contractors & Undetakers
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Warymouth St
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J. & R. Forgan, Limited
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A. W. "Sandford & Co.,ltd
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Sandfords Iy
S.A- Egg Board
Smour & Sons
J. H. Smour and Sons
Caltowie
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