generations in ink feature november 2008

GENERATIONS

I N I NK

...New era...New era...New eraNew home...New home...New home...

I t has been a long time coming but finally onThursday, November 6, 2008, Senator AlanFerguson will officially open our new premises.

We shifted in January, and then in February hosted aCountry Press SA Conference. Since then we havebeen busily putting the finishing touches on thebuilding.

We believe this building positions this newspaperwell for the future. There is plenty of room for expan-sion and it is a far more user-friendly and productivebuilding. Our previous premises in Kadina were only7.4 metres wide. The newspaper shifted into the build-ing in 1888 so it had served the Times, its readers andcustomers for 120 years. We were all a bit sad when weleft the building but excited to be in our newpremises.

The area is expanding with more and more peopleshifting in. Great confidence is being shown in thearea with new national chain stores opening, multi-storey developments at the Wallaroo marina, an inter-national golf course and resort at Port Hughes, pluscoastal land fetching unheard of prices. Up and downthe leg there are developments proposed and “shacks”that are fit for kings and queens.

We need to be in a position to serve all our readerswell and need premises that are easy to get to and toget a car park, allows for an expanding work force, and

can cope with changing technology. This building gives us confidence moving forward.

Local newspapers have been the most effective way ofspreading the news, views and selling message to thepeople in the district. The Yorke Peninsula CountryTimes (and its predecessors) has been doing it for 143years. We hope we are doing it in another 143 years.

To celebrate our official opening we thought wewould have a look back over the past 143 years. Duringthat time, Yorke Peninsula has had its fair share ofboom and busts, wars, depressions and recessions,crises, opposition to government policy, heroes andvillains. Enjoy the read; we enjoy bringing it to youevery week.

Michael

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For the past 16 and ahalf years as a Senatorrepresenting SouthAustralia and, in particu-lar, representing YorkePeninsula, it has been apleasure being associatedwith the Yorke PeninsulaCountry Times and theoutstanding public serviceit provides to residents ofYorke Peninsula andbeyond.

I have known the threegenerations of the Ellisfamily from the days ofthe Moonta People’sWeekly through to theKadina, Wallaroo, MoontaTimes and now the very highly regarded regional

newspaper, the YorkePeninsula Country Times.It is an absolute credit tothe Ellis family and thewonderful staff of thenewspaper that the stan-dard of their publication isso highly regarded by itsreaders and its peers inthe industry.

The move to new andspacious premises is a suresign of their confidence inthe future, their consider-ation of the working con-ditions for their staff andthe positive attitude theyhave displayed to YorkePeninsula and its resi-dents.

To Michael Ellis and allof our friends at the YorkePeninsula Country Timeswe wish you well as youcontinue to provide anoutstanding country news-paper to all of your read-ers.

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knew our buildings inTaylor Street, Kadina, andGeorge Street, Moonta,were too small. We hadundertaken quite a fewinvestigations aboutbuilding on to both, pur-chasing nearby propertiesfor expansion, and/orrelocating but in October2003 we decided tosecure the premises at 31Goyder Street, which hadpreviously housed Price’sBakery, viewing it as suit-able for us.

We approached DavidShannon of ShannonArchitects in Adelaidewhose advice and helpwas invaluable. We thendeveloped a proposal ofhow we wanted to oper-ate the business, includedall staff and family wishlists, and waited to seewhat he would come upwith.

We then split the jobinto stages.

Stage One was the re-location of our printingpresses from Moonta, toKadina. After a lot ofwork — looking atdesigns, gatheringquotes, appointingtradespeople — we shift-ed the presses one yearlater, in October 2004. Wewere happy (and a littlesurprised!) we did notmiss an issue; we printedthe paper one Tuesday inMoonta and the nextTuesday in Kadina. Thatseemed to be a Herculeaneffort. And everyoneinvolved was fantastic.

Then we focused on thenext stage — shifting thepre-press, editorial andadministration side (i.ewhat was at 25 TaylorStreet). This took farmore planning and a lot

of time. We needed toconsider our presenttechnology, upgradingthe present systems, andallowing for futureupgrades. We also wantedto allow for future expan-sion. We had been out ofroom for many years andwere determined to notlet that happen again.

Each department wasconsulted over its needs,ideal positions for differ-ent roles, how manypower points were need-ed, etc. Once a finaldesign was settled upon awhole range of questionswas raised: telephone sys-tems, internet needs,cabling (there is approxi-mately 10 kilometres ofcabling placed in the newceiling), new computers,updating file servers, air-conditioning, etc. Therewas more collecting ofquotes, decisions on sup-pliers, and ordering thework.

We decided to shift inlate January in the fewdays prior to theAustralia Day long week-end—with the longweekend our “insurance”should we need extratime.

Even though the firststage involved largemachinery which pro-duces its own challenges,the second stage involvedmany desks, computers,printers and the like. Allhad to be shifted, andput in the right spotwhere they would, hope-fully, still work! They did,and the entire team andtradespeople were terrif-ic.

We shifted 100 years ofhistory in virtually oneday, and by the next day,it was all operational.

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few months to dot all the“i’s and cross all the “t’s,but it has been worth-while. Productivity hasincreased, all of us enjoycoming to work, there isspace and light and com-fort. Interestingly for me,no-one has asked to goback to the old buildingto have a look. Not evenDennis Gill who workedin that building for 50years!

No one wants to lookback, everyone wants tolook forward. That, forme, says that I think wehave got it right for ourteam. I am sure we havegot it right for our cus-tomers as well.

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u The builder responsible for the new YorkePeninsula Country Times office: Tony Bader.

u AT RIGHT: Thetransformation frombakery to newspaperoffice continues.

u Michael Ellis, Tony Bader, Ian Bootheyand Andrew Rule load the plate burner forthe move from Taylor St. to Goyder St.

u The new press room at Goyder Street isready for the presses to arrive

in October 2004.

u The new press room at Goyder Street isready for the presses to arrive

in October 2004.

u AT LEFT:Preparationsfor the newfacade for 31Goyder Street.

u Theinside ofthe formerPrice’sBakerybuilding at31 GoyderStreet istransformed.

u Theinside ofthe formerPrice’sBakerybuilding at31 GoyderStreet istransformed.


Looking back...GENERATIONS I N I NK

NEWSPAPERS OF YORKE PENINSULAThe chart below traces the history of the “Yorke Peninsula Country Times”

SYP Pioneer1898

Maitland Watch1911

SYP NewsPictorial

1969

YPCOUNTRY

TIMESTODAY

YP Country Times1968

Kadina, Wallaroo,Moonta Times

1966

YP Advertiserand Mines News

Est. 1872

YP Minesand Farmers

Journal

YP AdvertiserMoonta

YP Farmer1923

SA FarmerMoonta

Kadina & WallarooTimes1888

MoontaPeoples Weekly

1890

Wallaroo Times1865

On Wednesday, June 3, 1970, an editorial in theYorke Peninsula Country Times stated,

“This edition marks the commencement of an era.In the place of five, one newspaper will serve the

entire region of Yorke Peninsula and some districtsnorth.

“Already incorporated in the Yorke PeninsulaCountry Times are the Kadina and Wallaroo Times,the Moonta People’s Weekl,y and the SouthAustralian Farmer.

“Welcomed into this extensive readership arethose formerly served by the Southern YorkePeninsula News Pictorial, which had risen from theamalgamation of the Maitland Watch and theSouthern Yorke Peninsula Pioneer.”

The official opening of the new premises inGoyder Street, Kadina, marks the commencement ofanother era in the Yorke Peninsula Country Times’long history.

Since 1888, the Taylor Street, Kadina, office—from which it moved in January, 2008— had servedas the headquarters of the Kadina and WallarooTimes, which in time became the Kadina, Wallarooand Moonta Times, and eventually the YorkePeninsula Country Times.

The history of the Yorke Peninsula Country Timesis a history of the development of the YorkePeninsula as one community. “With the formationof the Kadina, Wallaroo and Moonta Times in April1966, the paper noted, ‘With the large scale use ofthe motor car during the last few years, the threelocal towns and surrounding area are rapidly becom-ing one community. Happenings in one town oftenhave a vital effect on the other two and in manycases on the farmers in the agricultural district.

“One local paper for the three towns and districtwill give the area one voice; provide one medium forreaching all homes and families.

Today, The Yorke Peninsula Country Times is atrue reflection of the Yorke Peninsula as one com-munity. Recent Health Department initiativesprompted many Yorke Peninsula residents to voicetheir concerns and their “one voice” was the YPCT.Letters to the Minister for Health filled our editori-al pages for weeks.

Each paper, which has come under the YorkePeninsula Country Times’ umbrella, has been a voiceof its community while at the same time building acommunity of readers. The first paper on YorkePeninsula was the Wallaroo Times and MiningJournal, founded in 1865 by New Zealanders,Andrew and David Taylor. It flourished in Wallaroountil pressure from Kadina traders forced a move toTaylor Street, Kadina, in 1888 and a change ofname to Kadina and Wallaroo Times.

Andrew Taylor died in 1891 and the businesscontinued under the directorship of David Taylor,until 1901 when Mrs Clara Furner-Taylor becameproprietress. David Taylor continued to manage thebusiness on her account. In 1910, Andrew Taylor’sson, William F. Taylor, and James F .Pengelleyformed a partnership which lasted until James’death in 1935. James Pengelley’s son Fred joinedthe partnership and eventually took control whenWilliam Taylor died in 1945. Mrs Agnes Taylormaintained a financial interest until 1962, relin-quishing a 97-year association with the Kadina andWallaroo Times.

Fred Pengelley’s association with the paperended in 1963 when C. J. G. & T. F. Ellis, proprietorsof the “People’s Weekly” at Moonta, purchased theKadina and Wallaroo Times.

Ellis FamilyWith the Moonta Mines starting to close down,

Cecil John Green (CJG) Ellis sought employment at

the People’s Weekly in Moonta as a ‘Printer’s Devil’,otherwise known as an apprentice.

Cecil was the successful applicant because hecould spell the word, “fiery”. Later, when hebecame sole owner, he continued the tradition ofhaving an applicant undertake a spelling test whichwould include fiery. That tradition continues today,with current third year pre-press apprentice LindsayRover saying her application included a spellingtest requiring her to spell fiery.

When Cecil started work, the paper was owned byJ. T. Hicks of Moonta and R. J. Hughes fromWallaroo. Cecil later formed a partnership ofHughes and Ellis in 1948 with Hugh Hughes, son of

R. J. Hughes.Cecil’s son, Trevor Francis Ellis, started work as

an apprentice at the People’s Weekly in 1954 at age15, and in 1958, formed the Ellis and Ellis partner-ship with his father. At the time, the People’sWeekly consisted of four pages and 800 copies wereprinted. Most of the income was derived from jobprinting.

By 1963, Ellis and Ellis owned both Kadina andWallaroo Times and the People’s Weekly and contin-ued to print each separately until 1966, when theMoonta paper was incorporated into the “Times” tobecome the Kadina, Wallaroo and Moonta Times.

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u The Wallaroo Times office in Kadina prior to 1910. It all began in 1865; we’reheading for our second century.

1970

OTHER PAPERS

ARDROSSAN: Ardrossan News, 3-2-1911 to 7-7-1911KADINA: Copper Age, 1906 - 1908; Plain Dealer, 1894 - 1926MAITLAND: Maitland Mail and CYP Advocate, 1909 - ?PORT BROUGHTON: Broughton Star, 1909 - 1912; Broughton Echo, 1887 - ?

PORT WAKEFIELD: Wakefield Sun, 1910 - 1912;Wakefield Monitor, 1915 - 1941

SNOWTOWN: Stanley Herald, 1909 - 1948YORKETOWN: SYP Clarion, 1902 - 1931



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...FROM PAGE 5Two years later, a further change

took place when the Kadina-basedThe South Australian Farmer,owned by Mr and Mrs H. W. Tossell,merged with the ‘Times’. As aresult, the new paper was calledthe Yorke Peninsula Country Timesand the first edition was printed onSeptember 4, 1968.

The YPCT was then printed atPort Pirie until 1979 when the YPFarmer office in George StreetMoonta was renovated to accommo-date a Rockwell Goss CommunityPress. In 1970, the SYP NewsPictorial was purchased by the Ellisfamily, thus creating a communityof Yorke Peninsula readers. TheSYP News Pictorial was an amalga-mation of the Maitland Watch andthe SYP Pioneer.

In October 2004, the printingpresses were moved from Moonta totheir current location in GoyderStreet, Kadina, and finally after120 years, the Taylor Street officeswere relocated so the entire YorkePeninsula Country Times produc-tion was under the one roof.

The Ellis family still owns theYorke Peninsula Country Timeswith Cecil’s grandson, MichaelCraig, as the managing editor.Michael’s father, Trevor, like hisfather before him, continues towork at the paper well into hisretirement years.

From its humble beginnings inmany of the towns across the YorkePeninsula, the Yorke PeninsulaCountry Times has grown tobecome the one medium for reach-ing all homes and families.

u The YP Farmer Office in George Street, Moonta, in 1932. This waswhere the YP Country Times was printed up until 2004, when the presswas moved to 31 Goyder Street, Kadina.

u MOONTA, 1959: The SA Farmer Newspaper and Printing office (in 1968becoming the Yorke Peninsula Country Times Moonta office). Pictured area group of Moonta Rural Youth members, with a visiting American farmer(centre, Virginia Edgington). From left: Pam Phillips (now Woodward),Philip Woodward, Virginia, Felicity Thomson (Chapman), and CynthiaPolgreen (Ferguson). Coincidently, Virginia only recently returned(September, 2008) to Moonta, after 49 years, for a visit with this group.



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u Jack Francis workedon the presses for 50years, with the SA Farmerfrom 1945, and for theEllis family from 1968 –1995. Jack is picturedlooking at an originalHeidelberg in 1979.

u ABOVE: The ink-splat-tered innards of 25 TaylorStreet, Kadina, circa1969. In this building,the YP Country Times wasproduced from 1968-2008; the Kadina,Wallaroo, Moonta Times,from 1966-68; and theKadina and WallarooTimes, from 1888-1966.

The YP Country Times’ first newweb offset newspaper press was com-missioned at its Moonta office at 65George Street on October 18, 1979,by then Member for Goyder, Mr E.Keith Russack.

A crowd of 200 watched MrRussack press the start button of theRockwell Goss Community Press,which was soon running at a speedof 16,000 eight-page folded sectionsper hour.

The press had cost $94,000 andthe pressroom, recently renovated,had been designed to allow easy

access for the half-ton reels ofnewsprint and, at times, up to 30reels would be stored in the building.

Business people and representa-tives of community and civic bodiesfrom many parts of the peninsulaattended the commissioning.

The commissioning ended a 10year period when the YP CountryTimes was printed in Pt Pirie.

To put the cost of the press($94,000) in perspective, in 1979 anew Datsun 200B cost $6500 and anew three bedroom brick veneer homecost $22,762.

Press commissioningu Big crowds attended the 1979 Press Commissioning at the YPCountry Times Moonta office, in George Street.

u Trevor Ellis introduces hisprinting staff at the 1979press commissioning. Fromleft: Lesley Starr, Dennis Gill,Wayne Rivers, John Prout,Wayne Edwards, Jack Francisand Jeff Smith.

u RIGHT: The arrival of theGoss Printing Press to theMoonta office of YPCT inOctober 1979 was a bigoccasion. Staff, including Managing EditorTrevor Ellis (top) at theofficial commissioning (l-r):Nancy Hann, Doris Boyd,Sharon Dodd, Anne Weylandt,Narelle Woodforde, MartinBorlace, Michael Boyce andGeoff Mayhew.

I started work inJanuary 1954 in the“People’s Weekly” office inRyan Street, Moonta, withmy late father, Cecil Ellis,and his partner, HughHughes.

In the mining era the“People’s Weekly” hadbeen a much larger paperbut in the ‘50s, Moonta,on the closure of themines in the 1920s hadbecome smaller, and thepaper was only four pages,and 800 copies were print-ed per week!

As I walked in, myfather pointed out theCreed hanging on the wall:

“That I shall come eachday to my tasks,

Eager and glad to work.Grateful for the accom-

plishments of the past,But mindful always that

today demands the bestthat is in me.”

“Now, I expect you tolearn the Creed,” said myfather.

“Yes, yes I will,” I

answered, and I still knowit!

I looked around thePeople’s Weekly officewhich must have been 75years old then, and Icouldn’t help but noticethe very worn bare boardfloors — generations ofprinters had worn downthe boards, but the knotshad resisted. And so towalk around you ran therisk of twisting your ankleon the high knots!

Talk about OccupationalHealth and Safety!

Today we are consciousof the amount of electrici-ty we use, at home or inindustry. Well, thePeople’s Weekly hardlyused any! When I startedwork, I looked up thatday: there were just fourlights (of the globe vari-ety) and that was theextent of electricity usage.No air-conditioning; theguillotine was operated byhand, the type was set byhand, the small two job-

bing presses were poweredby pumping your leg upand down, while the news-paper flatbed press (whichmust have been 70 yearsold) was powered by agiant Blackstone OilEngine which was easilythe heaviest machine inthe office. It had a hugeflywheel which must havebeen about five or six feethigh.

The exhaust pipe wentthrough a hole in the wall,and the end of theexhaust was kept coveredby a jam tin.

I soon learned that tostart the Blackstone, theprocedure was:

Light up a primus, getthe flame to a beautifulblue, put it under theBlackstone, and when hotenough, prime theBlackstone, and then myfather and I would rotatethe flywheel (with all ourstrength) until the enginefired, and the jam tinwould be blasted off theexhaust pipe!

A glance into the frontoffice that day (furniture,a table, two chairs, and ahuge dictionary) revealedsomething I was itching toget my hands on — thephone! We didn’t have aphone at home, so it was areal thrill to learn how toanswer the phone, or tomake a call.

To make a call: Lift the

handset and then on topwas a largish handlewhich you strenuouslyrotated — and then thetelephonist in Moonta POwould answer.

Of course, you soonlearned which telephonistwas on duty and a conver-sation would be struck up:

“Is that you Lurleen?”“Yes, how are you

Trevor?”“I’m OK, are you still

keeping company withBill?”

“None of your business— now what number doyou want?”

“Moonta 2” (theAdelaide Milling Companynumber. The People’sWeekly number wasMoonta 3 — wasn’t itbeautifully simple).

Well, on that first day Ihad to sweep the office —

sprinkle water from an oldbottle first to keep themines slag dust down.

Then on a small table Ihad to write out individu-ally, the addresses on thewrappers for those papersto be posted—carefullywriting each address. Justalongside the table was asmall window and I spentconsiderable time droolingover the late Mr LesterFord’s cars on his Used Carblock. Hillmans, Humbers,Jowett Javelins, SuperSnipes, Vanguards, V.W.,etc. A few motorbikeswere parked — Matchless,A.J.S. B.S.A, etc. (noJapanese bikes then!) Iloved the look of the Redand Black Morris 8/40which had a soft top,three on the floor, and awooden frame.

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u The printing press which was used forprinting The People’s Weekly, now housed in theMoonta Museum.

u Trevor Ellis andDoris Boyd workedtogether in theEditorial Department,for 25 years.

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u YP Country Times staff 1970. From left: Jack Francis, Jeff Smith,Wayne Rivers, Dennis Gill, Peter Mitchell, John Prout, QuentinKaesehagen, Nancy Hann, Sharon Dodd, Doris Boyd.

u Staff of 1979. From left, back: Lesley Starr, Geoff Mayhew, Wayne Rivers, John Prout, Trevor Ellis, Jeff Smith, Dennis Gill,Jack Francis, Wayne Edwards; seated: Anne Weylandt, Sharon Dodd, Cecil Ellis, Doris Boyd, Nancy Hann, Narelle Woodforde; front:Martin Borlace and Michael Boyce.

u 1960: The late Bob David, a linotype operatorwith the Kadina and Wallaroo Times.

u 1966: Ian Ward, Julie Hollams (nee Kennett),John Prout, Dennis Gill and (front) Wayne Rivers.

Later I bought this lit-tle car (must have been 40years old when I had it—top speed about 40 mph)which soon proved to befull of rattles, and theseats (two seater) werespringless. But it was acar! As I turned, say, leftin it around a corner, Iswear the worn out loosewooden frame would allsway to the right withcentrifugal force! I neverlowered the hood becauseI was frightened the bodywould fall to bits.

And so the first week atwork wore on, until wereached Thursday (print-ing day). What excite-ment! Start theBlackstone and thenchase the jam tin downthe yard ready to put itback on the exhaust atthe end of the day!

Start the flatbed presswhich was driven by abelt from the Blackstone.Of course the Blackstonewould fire once or twice,and then coast on the fly-wheel before graduallyslowing down. The presslikewise. One minuteprinted papers flying off,and then slowing, slow-ing, but then top speedagain!

I would hop on my pushbike and with 100 or sopapers set off to deliverthem to the houses of

Moonta Mines which,because I lived there Iknew like the back of myhand. Most of the littleminers’ cottages wereoccupied by elderly wid-ows and so I would call atthe door and call out“Weekly”. Out they wouldcome with their threepence, pleased to seesomeone.

But then there wasanother aspect to deliver-ing the “Weeklys”. Ibecame probably one ofAustralia’s first domicil-iary care workers. Manysuch widows, quite elderlyand all with wood stoves,would invariably ask meto empty their ash buck-ets. They would clean outtheir stoves and fireplacesregularly into a bucket,but I would empty thebucket.

Several elderly ladieswould also ask me to dotheir shopping for themon Saturday morning. “Myson,” they would say (asall Cousin Jacks wouldaddress young lads),“would you do some shop-ping for me?”

So it was off to MoontaSaturday morning on mytreadly — visit Gartrell’sChemist, Miss Murrin’sbookshop (she had adelightful baby Austin 7),Emerson and Davey’sEmporium, Barbary’s Cafe,

Oates Grocery Store,Learmond’s Emporium, orLester G. Ford and Co, forthe various elderly ladies.

On the way home toMoonta Mines, it was pastthe immense wheat andbarley stacks in theMoonta railway yard(must have been hundredsof thousands of bagsstacked there) and thenthe big HighwaysDepartment depot.

Deliver the goods —and then it was a home-made pasty for lunch, andoff to the beach.

Monday would herald

my second week at work.What changes I have

seen — try to get a juniortoday to learn the Creed!

EDITOR’S NOTE: The People’sWeekly began in 1888 and in1958 was purchased byTrevor’s father, Cecil who, atthe age of 14, had commencedwork as a printer’s devil at theWeekly office in Ryan Street,Moonta. March 31, 1966, sawthe last publication of theMoonta People’s Weekly, whenit was incorporated with theKadina and Wallaroo Timeswhich had been purchased byCecil and Trevor Ellis.

u Editorialstaff, circa1995. Fromleft: FionaRait, DorisBoyd, KeithBailey,RosemaryGarrard,LindaGriffiths.


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u Kadina1988:JournalistKeith Bailey,typesetterSimonTaylor, NewsEditor DorisBoyd andJournalistDenisTilbrook.

u Dennis Gill at the linotype machine on which he started his apprenticeship.

u Front officestaff in the1980s (l-r):Leah Knight,Jenny Griffin,JodeeCavenett,AngelaWheeler.

u Typesettingin 1986: IanShaw (left)and JamieProut.

u Bob Currie, commercialprinting rep/typesetter for10 years.

u Staff of 1981. From left: Sandy Hosking, Doris Boyd,Sharon Dodd, Anne Weylandt, Leah Knight, Nancy Hann,Wendy Kemp.

u October, 2004: John Prout, Peter O’Callaghanand Dennis Gill work the collating machinefor the last time at George Street, Moonta.


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u Staff of 2004 (standing, l-r): Jo Elsworthy, Rod Penna, JodeeCavenett, Pauline Phillips, Michael Ellis, Sharon Dodd, Rosemary Cock,John Sanders, Sharni Jones, Julia Agnew, John Prout, Erica Andrews,Justin Price, Kathryn Crisell, Emily Bourne, Kara Gunning, Jason Hage,Ian Shaw, Fiona Rait; front: Wayne Rivers, Ryan Jarvis and Dennis Gill.

u The last paper is printed at Moonta, on October 18, 2004. In theforeground are Michael (left) and Trevor Ellis.

u A new imagesetter arrives at the Taylor Street office, in 2002. Fromleft: Ian Shaw, Jason Hage, Dennis Gill, Justin Price, Agfarepresentative Brian Vincent, and John Prout.

u Staff of 2008, at Goyder Street. From left: Managing Editor Michael Ellis, News Editor RosemaryCock, Jodee Cavenett, Rod Penna, Pauline Phillips, Leonie O’Leary, Ryan Jarvis, Maxine Baines, NickPerry, Sharon Dodd, Sue Bussenschutt, Meg Roberts, Judy Gordon, Erica Andrews, Ian Shaw, WayneRivers, Dennis Gill, John Sanders, Jo Elsworthy, Justin Price and Trevor Ellis.

u The first paperprinted from 31Goyder Street, Kadina,in October 2004.Printing staff, withPress Engineer MikeInnes (second fromright): Ryan Jarvis,Michael Ellis andWayne Edwards.

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YP Country Times LOOKING BACK Tuesday, November 4, 2008 13

STANSBURY INSTITUTE HALL: Opening ceremony March 16, 1910. The Institute wasestablished in 1884.

New Year’s Day celebrations at Port Victoria.

Anzac Day, Kadina, 1922.

Alby Buttfield and son on Ted Buttfield’s horse andcart milk van, Stansbury.

Wallaroo jetty(locally knownas Price’sJetty), 1914.

Kadina, 1916.

“Back to Moonta” 1927 – two steam engineshauled 600 passengers to the celebrations, whichraised money for improvements at Moonta Bay.

Proud Recorders of HistoryProud Recorders of History


Proud recorders of historyProud recorders of history

Descendents of the Whittaker brothers claim the first stump jump ploughswere made and assembled by the Whittaker Bros. at their blacksmith shop in1877, located across the road from the present Dowlingville tennis courts.

The blacksmith shop was a thriving business, with neighbours bringing hors-es to be shod, and machinery and carts to be repaired.

After one particular local ploughing competition, held near Ardrossan, thebrothers are understood to have taken some 20 orders for their plough.

Another story, as remembered by the daughter of James Campbell Murdock,a blacksmith at Maitland at the time, tells of how a Mr Whittaker broke a singlefurrow plough at Ardrossan when he hit a tree stump. The story goes that MrWhittaker fixed it temporarily with the fork of a tree, saw how the fork jumpedwhen it hit stones, and got the idea for a stump jump plough.

“His plough worked on soft soil but the share would not go back into thehard ground even when weighted with logs and stones.”

“Mr R. B. Smith of Arthurton heard of the experiment, locked himself up in aroom for hours at a time, and invented the first successful stump jumpplough”, so the story was retold in 1952.

Early this century, the Norwegian barqueEthel battled harrowing seas only to bewashed ashore on Yorke Peninsula’s ruggedcoastline. Over the years, Ethel’s Wreckbecame a major tourist attraction for theregion.

Thousands of people have travelled to herresting place.

The following extract from a paper of theday describes what the crew of the Ethelendured on January 2, 1904, the day she wasstranded. She had been sailing to PortAdelaide after completing a cargo order toSouth Africa.

The Ethel was approaching journey’s end.A strong westerly had been blowing and thatafternoon the wind swung to the southwestand blew with gale force.

Logging 11 knots the Ethel raced before thegathering storm.

The Neptune Islands had been sighted butCaptain Borgvald could not pick upAlthorpe’s light.

At 9 pm, orders were given to furl theupper topsail. Almost immediately brokenwater was seen ahead. An attempt was madeto wear ship. The menacing reef was narrow-ly cleared, but the Ethel now refused toanswer her helm and drifted helplessly.

At about 10 pm... lifted by heavy seas shewas driven lurching into a sandy bay andfinally grounded. Lifebelts were distributedand distress rockets fire, but there was noresponse from shore. It was feared that theEthel would capsize and break under the bat-tering she was receiving.

Several seamen volunteered to swimashore a line, and 19 year-old LeonardStenersen made the attempt.

Wearing a life-jacket and with a ropelooped around his body he plunged into theviscous surf. Anxious comrades saw himfinally gain a foothold, only to be snatched bysucceeding waves and dragged back by thepowerful undertow. His shipmates began tohaul him back. While being lifted from thewater, Steneersen apparently collapsed,slipped out of the rope and disappeared for-ever.

The next day, the Ethel’s plight wasnoticed. Adelaide was advised that a barquewas ashore near Reef Head, Yorke Peninsula;

a tug was sent to assist the barque’s crew.Although the Ethel appeared to be undam-

aged... cabled instructions from the ownersordered Capt. Borgvald and his men to aban-don the barque.

The wreck was purchased at auction for100 pounds by Mr A. H. Hassell, of MarionBay.

Attempts to refloat the vessel were made.On April 4 the tug Euroapproached as near as shedared. Rockets estab-lished a link with thebeach and a team of hors-es dragged ashore the endof two 5-inch steelhawsers.

In May... on a spring tideEthel was dragged intodeep water and rode atanchor practically undam-aged. For Ethel it was buta brief reprieve. Almostimmediately the weatherdeteriorated... anothersouthwest gale lashed thewaters. A steel hawserparted and the Ethel wasflung ashore right at thefoot of the cliffs.

This time the keel was cracked and therewas no further attempt to refloat her.

The first Stump Jump

ploughs

The Ethel is stranded– January 1904

Falling chimney stacks at Wallaroo.

STACKS FALL

Wheat bags being unstacked at Port Victoria.


YP Country Times LOOKING BACK Tuesday, November 4, 2008 15Wallaroo Smelters 1916: the chimneys belch smoke, during the heyday of the smelting era. Only one of these chimneys remains.

Opening of bowlsseason, 1923, at Moonta.

THEATRE OPENS

Working underground in the mines, 1904.The Wallaroo Mines closed in 1926; the townsurvived as a port, exporting cereal grainsand importing phospahte rock for theWallaroo fertiliser works. The MoontaMines closed in 1923, but in their heyday,Moonta had a populaion of 12,000, makingit the largest centre in SA outside Adelaideat the time. Moonta survived as anagricultural and service centre; nowadays,tourism has become an importantindustry for the Copper Triangle.

MINES CLOSE

The old IdealTheatre,Kadina, onits openingnight, July20, 1921.



Harry Butler, born at Yorketown, is one of our most famous sons, and hisequally famous “Red Devil” monoplane remains on display at Minlaton for allto see.

The greatest day in the Harry Butler story, the day of which he haddreamed as a farmer’s lad, was August 6th, 1919, when, as a local boy, hecame home from war by plane, to become the first man to fly across the gulfto Yorke Peninsula.

Carrying an 18kg mailbag of postcards and letters for delivery in Minlaton,the flight was also the first air mail flight to the peninsula, and its cargo wasthe first air mail to be carried over water in SA.

It is difficult to appreciate the size of the miracle that turned a youngKoolywurtie farmer into a famous airman. It must always be kept in mindthat his feats began pre-World War I era, when flying was in its earliest infan-cy and no one knew much about conquering the air.

A full boat taking passenger trips at the Wallaroo Regatta of 1914.

George Street, Moonta, 1927 – the huge“Back to Moonta” celebrations.

FIRST GULF CROSSING

LAST TRAM

CYP Show, Minlaton, 1923.

Moonta Bay in the early1950s. In the distance on the cliff is Cliff House. MoontaBay was once the centre for the biggest fishing industry in SA, more fishbeing sent away from this port than any other locality in the state.

Loading of the first

shipment of grain (barley)

from Port Hughes, 1924.

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We’ve done a fullcircle: TheWallaroo andMoonta Minesbroughtthousands ofpeople to theCopper Trianglein the mid 1800sthrough to the1920s; today, thepeople are stillcoming for themines, but nowthe drawcard isWheal HughesTourist Mine, athrillingundergroundexperience,opened in 1997.

DECEMBER 1999: The Gulf Link Ferry project to provide a vehicular ferry across SpencerGulf between Wallaroo and Cowell is still in the pipeline, but the pipeline has been onespanning 10 years. Edithburgh, however, did have its link with Glenelg – Kangaroo Island –for a little while, “Enigma III” gracing our waters. However, high costs (dredging) and lackof right of passage guarantee from Glenelg, put paid to this service in 1998.

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Last tram to Moonta Bay, 1931.

The beach has always been a wonderful place for peopleon the Yorke Peninsula, whether you just like lazing inthe sun (below - they were sun-smart in the 1920s!), or(as above), you like making sandcastles in front of acrowd! This competition was in 1936.

In November 1979, a freak storm hit PortBroughton, almost wrecking the town and caravan park (rightand bottom right).

FIRST GRAIN SHIPMENT

FREAK STORM


A Christmas party at Kadina Clothing Company in 1948.


Two Woolworths openingsNew $7 million Woolworths opened at Kadina on December 8, 1997. Helen Burnelland Reg Petherick were there when the first Woolworths store opened in 1970 (at acost of $400,000) and, as the longest serving present day staff members, were thereto cut the ribbon of the new store, along with Manager Bruce Huxtable.Inset: The 1970 Woolworths opening – shows then Kadina branch manager JohnMarr (left), with John Belcher, food manager, and Mrs M. Victor, service supervisor.

On 15th October, 1967, the firstcomercial quantity of South Australianprawns were harvested locally. Actingon advice from Moonta Bay fishermanBen Simms, Roger Howlett from PortLincoln caught the prawns in the mid-dle of Spencer Gilf in his boat the“Cape Barren”.

The first night, 600 pounds ofcooked sea prawns were taken andtransfered to Ben’s boat the “MaryAnn Simms” for transporting to salesat SAFCOL’s Adelaide Fish Market.They fetched 55 cents per pound(approximately $1.22 per kg).

SA Prawns– first

commercialquantity

Ardrossan’s flood of ’96

Kadina born and educated, John Olsen was sworn inas Premier of South

Australia on 28th November, 1996.Many locals who have known John from a young age, predicted he would go far.Twenty-two years earlier, in 1974, when he was only 29,John was elected Mayor of the Town ofKadina, becomingthe youngest man ever to hold the office.From 1976-79 he was President of the SA Liberal Party ofAustralia, and in 1979 was elected to State Parliament.

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Ardrossan hit the headlines on July 2,1996, when flood waters flowed intothe township, and water levelsadjacent the corner BP ServiceStation reached an estimated 5 feet.

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These girls handle enquiries over the phone, via fax, post or email, and allthe accounts that need to be paid, the 800-plus accounts that are sent outeach month, the payroll, Business Activity Statements, and the mountain ofother paper work required by government and other agencies.

u The news room is the nerve centre of the operation. Pictured here(from left at rear) are John Duncan, Maxine Baines, Judy Gordon (proofreader), Nick Perry, Erica Andrews (Sub-Editor), Wayne Rivers; and (atfront) Ros White, David Bowman and News Editor Rosemary Cock.Rosemary is kept extremely busy allocating stories and photographicassignments to journalists, editing finished articles and allocating space,and answering the phone as well as the 800-plus editorial emailenquiries received each week. Oh, the joys of technology!

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u Photographer Rod Pennatrains his eye on a subject to present and enhance the news item; the digital photos are then scanned, sized and placed into the production sequence. Photography is a vital part of the newspaper experience. In fact, photo captions are the second most read thing (behind headlines) in a newspaper.



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u THE PRESS CREW: from left, Peter O’Callaghan, Justin Price, RyanJarvis, John Sanders, Lindsay Rover and Wayne Rivers. Absent: PrintingManager, Wayne Edwards.

u LEFT: Before the pages are made up the adverts and articles are proof read. Shown here are JudyGordon, and Trevor Ellis who calls on his 54 years of experience in newspapers. We are proud ofthe quality of our newspaper and do our utmost to eliminate as many errors as possible.

u ABOVE LEFT: The “lifeblood” of any newspaper is the advertising. Without it the newspaperfails. Photographed here are the sales girls based in Kadina (l-r): Sue Bussenschutt, Victoria Johnsand Meg Roberts. They are responsible for contacting regular clients, encouraging new clients toadvertise, and formulating advertising features.

u ABOVE: Next in line is the pre-press section headed by Ian Shaw, right. Pictured with him are(from left) Rod Penna, Lindsay Rover, John Sanders; and (seated) Justin Price and Dennis Gill. Itis the job of this team to set and arrange large and small display advertising and to layout thepages.


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u The negative is then placed on a printing plate coated with a light sensitive emulsion (shownhere is John Sanders placing a mask over the negatives). This plate is then exposed to ultra violetlight, burning the image onto the plate.

u All pages are on display on our “page wall” for ease of reference forpage make-up, editorial, advertising and the front office staff.

u Once checked they are then sent to an “imagesetter”that creates negatives of each page. Shown, above, is IanShaw checking the pages just before going to theimagesetter and Lindsay Rover (right) removing thenewly-made negatives from the imagesetter, and left,with a plate that has four pages burnt on it.

u TOP: Once the advertsare set, the photographstaken and the articleswritten, they are laid ona page using powerfulApple Mac computers.Shown above are IanShaw and Rod Pennacreating pages.



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u In these two photos (above and below), Ryan Jarvis is filling ink ducts and adjusting the ink keys onthe press. Ink today is made from soy beans. The newsprint we purchase is recycled, the aluminium platesand negatives are recycled, as is all our spoils or waste newsprint.

u This photo shows the printed web of paper entering the folder. We useabout 2.5 tonne of newsprint a week.

u RIGHT: Wayne Rivers isshown here placing a plate onour Goss Community Press.This press is capable ofprinting 24 pages at once withfour pages of colour at about12,000 copies per hour.



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u RIGHT: Managing Editor MichaelEllis checking the finished product— the end of another week’s work.

u A busy press room on Tuesdays. The collating machine is in the fore-ground; the Goss Press in the background.

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