J!iiijby SULPHIOJo; CORPORATION PrY. LIMITED

No. 4. JULY 1951.

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Known to us as "Unk." Clarrie was bornin Grafton in 1892. He went to sea assteward on liner "Niagara," in 1914. Foundhimself in Vancouver at outbreak of hostili-ties and remained afioat during 1914-1918 Warin the Merchant Navy, serving in quite anumber of ships.

Turned land lubber in 1918 to settle andmarry in Boolaroo. The following year sawoiarrie- at Sulphide - his first job on theMond Gas Plant; then to the Boiler Houseand later to the Refinery to work underForeman Jim Garton. .

When Refinery shut down in 1922, Claniefound work with the N.S.W. GovernmentRailways but two years later he was backagain as Rigger in the building of the firstunit of the Cement Plant. As a rigger,Clarrie worked on almost every plant on theWorks. For a time was a Greaser on shiftwork and to-day we find him settled in theshop as Blacksmith's Striker.

An enthusiastic bowler, Clarrie is a mem-ber of both Boolaroo and Sulphide Clubs.Also keen on gardening and fishing.

Harold J. Hawkes

Born in Ashfield in 1888, Harold left schoo.to try his hand as cashier and bookkeeper.Gave up this calling to join Sulphide in 1905as laboratory assistant, later to become as-sistant chemist in the "wet room" underguidance of Blll Jackson.

Resigned in 1909 to gain experience. as chiefchemist for two mining companies, followedby four years quantity surveying with hisfather in Sydney. Back at Sulphide III 1915he spent his time analysing shrapnel, on ex-perimental work and for periods In chargeof the super and acid plants. Went Intobusiness on his own In 1921, but 1924 sawHarold back again. Promoted Superintendentof Cement Plant in 1925-prior to this hewas engaged in research Into cementmanufacture.

Rugby Union was his sport in younger days,playing on the "wing" for Rosedale. Bicycleriding later took the place of football. Nowamuses himself with the odd spell of garden-ing. Music and "shows" are his chtefinterests.

THE MANAGER'S MESSAGE

I am sure that Management and Men are proud of the long.standing agreement under which conditions of employment on theseWorks are determined between ourselves after discussions around theconference table. The successful conclusion of negotiations for thenew agreement and the extension of the term to five years clearly showthe measure of confidence we place in one another.

Now it is up to each and everyone of'us to putour shoulder to the wheel, work as a team and we'llall be surprised just how much easier the jobbecomes.

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SULPHIDEWELFARE CLUB

BOWLS.Owing to bad weather Fairfield had

to cancel their visit on Saturday, 9thJune. Club members-were very-disap-pointed but look forward to a visit fromFairfleld when the weather clears up.

The social evening and presentationof inter-departmental and club trophieswas a great success. Sixty coupleswere present and everyone had an en-

ljoyable night to the music supplied byMrs. Fogo's Band. Patron, D. Yates,presented trophies to the winning rink(Office Staff). Skipper Frank Johnsonsuitably responding, and was ably sup-ported by Doug. Rich. Apologies werereceived from A. Edge and H. Black,who had prior engagements. Patron,D. Yates, also presented trophies to therunner-up, Vic. Kendwell and BartyWilkinson responding. Bill Ingham,presented the Club Championshiptrophy won by Herb. Davies, Mrs. Daviesaccepting on Herb's behalf. Memberswill be sorry to hear that Herb is inhospital and we all wish him a speedyrecovery. R. Forster presented theHandicap trophy to Lance Hawkins.

.Consistency winner, Eck. Burgin, waspresented with his trophy by GeorgeBennett. Visitors from Boolaroo Bowl-ing Club, G. Bennett (President) andBill McCombie (Secretary) and WestWallsend Bowling Club, Bill Gumb(President) and Perc. Padgett pre-sented the prizes to runners-up, Perc.Boardman (Club Championship andHandicap) and Reg. Gibson (Con-sistency).

The buffet supper provided by theLadies' Bowling Committee was voteda great success by everyone present.Thank you, ladies. Artist, MargaretRobertson, was in great form and JimSpeirs and guitar were appreciated byeveryone. Saw the Colliery Manager,Mr. Lucas, tripping the light fantastic.M,C. Bill Needs provided a good pro-gramme of old and new dances.

TENNIS COURTS.The tennis court fence will be finished

shortly and top dressing will completethe court very soon. Hurry up withthe fine gravel, Mr. Hawkins. Norm.Tonks and his merry men will needit soon.

BILLIARDS.A successful tournament (handicap

event) was run on 8th May. Messrs.Buckley, DiIIion, Rae, Firrnstone andConnors playing inspired billiards todefeat their opponents in the firstround. The final saw John Buckley(Elect. Dept.) win the first handicapfrom D. Rae (Canteen). "Sink Em"Buckley was presented with two silverash trays.

There will be another tournamentrun in the near fu.ture-all intendingplayers please see D. Rae at thecanteen for particulars.

DARTS.Joe Grew and son, Johnny, have ac-

cepted the challenge from the RiggingGang to play darts under champion-ship conditions. Anyone else interested?

FISHING.Tommy Walker (Rigging Gang) held

a meeting on 14th June for the pur-pose of forming a Fishing Club withinthe Welfare Club. The Committeewish you every success, Tommy, ardwill assist you in every way. '

Friday, the 13thJuly, at 8 p.m .

WELFARE CLUB ANNUALGENERAL MEETING

in the Club Room.Watch notice boards for the agenda

which will include:-Amendment of Rules.Election of Executive.Annual Report, etc.

This is your Club! All membersshould attend.

VISITORSWe were glad to see our chairman

Sir. Norman Mighell, and secretary, 'Mr:J. G. Laurence, together with Mr. R.A. S. Mason (London Mgr., Zinc Cor-poration Ltd.,) during their visit on 21stand 22nd June. We seem to reservevery special weather for our visitors.

MILITARY TRAININGApprentices or trainees in engineer-

ing, chemistry, metallurgy, etc., areasked to read the notice on the Work'sBoard concerning deferment of theirmilitary call-up.

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AROUNDCEMENT PLANT.

Les Young has joined the ranks ofcar-owners. He took delivery of a newMorris in May and is giving it good use.

Wizzy Wilson was noticed on Em-pire Day presiding at one of the bestfamily bon-fires seen for some time.His eager participation makes onewonder whether Dad or Junior ob-tained the biggest thrill out of thenight's entertainment.

WaIter Atkins was observed recentlyin the Nelson Bay district with anidea of going fishing. Lunch, beer,bait, etc., were in the bag-as for fish-ing gear - none. No sir, all was athome.

Since the influx of New Australiansto South Cardiff, Charlie Bailey hasadded some new words to hisvocabulary. .

We understand Don Anthony has anew accordian and is hoping to pro-vide entertainment at the nextWelfare Social.

Colleagues of Bryn Davies are stillenquiring about the lilies he has beencultivating in pots at the CementPlant for the past seven years. Noblooms yet, Bryn?

COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT.Congratulations to Owen Lewis on

his appointment as Sales Manager forthe Corporation. Before joining ourgroup three years ago; Owen hadseveral years experience on the Tech-nical Sales Staff of the Shell Companyin the U.K. and South Africa, and wefeel that our Selling will be in goodhands.

COLLIERY.We are happy to announce the ar-

1ival on 23/5/51 of a baby sister forthe two sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. Trot-man, of Cardiff. Bill (our CollieryDeputy) is keeping up' family tradition-he is one of 12 himself.

PLANT INVESTIGATIONDEPARTMENT.

We rejoice at the arrival of ourfirst "junior" to Mr. and Mrs. BrianSmith on 14th June-a daughter.

Harry Lindstrom has "gotten itchyfeet" and decided to leave us and take

himself off to Merrie England. Ourbest wishes go with him and we hopethat one day he will return to Sul-phide enriched in knowledge and ex-perience. He sails on July 16th. Goodluck, Harry!

Peter Mead has' now finished his"training run" around the works andis a fully fledged, P.I.D.-er.

Did you notice the man with thelimp a couple of weeks ago?

A great game this Australian Rules."POMMY."

"Another Pommy" is evidentlylabour ing under the false impressionthat the term "Pommy" is appliedto all English 'people. We would liketo. correct him. As Brttish emigrantswho have adopted Australia, its peopleand their customs, the term "Pommy"has never been applied to us and wehope never will. To us the word" Pommy" accurately describes a"British no-hoper," who throughsheer stupidity has aroused the ire ofthe locals. 'These supercilious over-bearing asses and their self-confessedsuperiority, make it hard for new ar-rivals to settle down and really enjoyliving in this country.

In conclusion, readers, remember,"Another Pommy" chose his ownNom-de-Plume.

-"Two Proud Englishmen."(Building sectionr..

ACID DROPS.A request. from an old lady came

t'other day: "I am a great lover offlowers and have a very large garden->I have often heard of the Acid Plantsthat you have at Cockle Creek-Whatare they like?-Have they a nice smell?etc., etc., and do you think I could' getsome seeds?" . '

"Well, Madame," I replieq,. "theycertainly have a. strong smell-theyare a hardy plant and seem .to thrivewell among 'Nettles' and <r suggest youwrite to 'Yates' for. the seeds."

I asked the News Photographer ifI was phbtogenic?-Rather than dis-appoint me, he replied: "The answer'sin the negative!". "Another Pommy" is definitely

wrong on the origin of' "Pommy."

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ACCIDENTS DON'T PAY-ASK

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DEPARTMENTSThe real origm (and I refer you to

the Mitchell Library, Sydney) material-ised in the early 19th century-whenconvicts and immigrants came toAustralia. There were no such thingsas passports and their names. occupa-tions, etc., were entered in a log book-the occupation of a convict wasentered as P.O.M.E., which is shortfor Prisoner of Mother England. (Inthe remarks column it stated that theywere sent out from England for thebenefit of that country's good).

Your article on tele-service in Juneissue-very good and very true! MissBooth has certainly an attractive faceand I sincerely hope we don't installautomatic 'phones because generallythe tele-girls eventually finish theircareers with "Hard Dials."

It has been said that Chambermenare inclined to be slightly off balancementally. That's "Fair lie" true-but-who wouldn't be, when they workamongst a lot of "Drips" eight hoursa day?

(Acid Plant).-"Barry Dock."

OUR SAFETY FIRST.We thank you Mr. Critic for your

constructive criticism in last month's"News." It is my prerogative asSafety Office cum Training, TimeStudy and Bonus Control Officer etc.,to reply through the medium of the"News."

Now that you are all aware of theexistence of a Work's A.P. Committee,it is logical to assume that you re-quire full information as to its func-tions, aims and achievements. It hasbeen found advantageous to changethe A.P. Committee annually, thusensuring .that the majority of theworkers are not 'only informed of theproceedings, but more important still,actually participate in the generalscheme of things. The A.P. Com-mittee have certainly done a good jobof work to date and have carried outtheir duties in a noteworthy manner.One could, no doubt, make an impos-ing list of jobs which should be at-tended to in order to reach thedesirable safety standard, but although

we are far from feeling complacentabout the existing standard, we feelthat the first hurdles have been suc-cessfully cleared-don't you?

Plant cleanliness is, without doubt,one of the most important attributestowards safe working conditions, andwe have that in mind when institutingbonus schemes. Perhaps you have notyet had the opportunity of noting theimprovement in the plants now work-ing under bonus conditions, e.g., the'Ammonia Distillation Plant, not tomention No. 4 Unit and the Chemicos.Of the departments outside bonus con-trol, I would hesitate to say, for in-stance, that the fitting shop has notreached the standard set by the SuperPlant. The verdict will be given whenthe Inter-departmental. "Better House-keeping" competition has bee ninstituted.

For obvious reasons, I refrain fromcommenting on the Ambulance Stationset up.

Twelve months ago the accident fre-quency rate on these works was 14,and it has now dropped to below 7.We have experienced periods as lowas 2.8. Our target is 2 and below, andwith your co-operation we know itcan be achieved.

In anticipation therefore, we say,thank you, and safe working for thefuture.

J. A. THOMAS.

Visit of Miss E. B. Sharp, M.A., O.B.E.,Deputy Director, Institute of Personnel

Management, London.Quite a representative group of New-

castle industrialists attended a lectureon Personnel Policy, recently given byMiss Sharp on her visit to Newcastle.Amongst those present, nine membersof our own Corporation were noted.Surely a good omen, as to our intenseinterest in Employer /Employee re-lationships. Any trouble entailed byattending this lecture was well repaidby Miss Sharp's able and interestingway of presenting her subject.

It is to be hoped that PersonnelWork will have received a definitefillip from her visit.

B.P.D.

THE M A N WHO HAD 0 N E.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSWe are grateful for the many wishes of success for the future

of the "News" that have been expressed by our friends and brothercompanies. The following are extracts from six acknowledgments:

General Manager, Australian Fer-tilizers Limited:-"I was very pleasedto receive from you the first two edi-tions of "Cockle Creek News," contentsof which have been perused with par-ticular interest. I trust the newpublication will achieve the success itdeserves.

I was extremely sorry to learn, how-ever, of the decease of your Engineer,Mr. H. Lamb, with whom we had oftencome into contact, and on behalf ofthe members of our staff who knewthis officer, we extend through youdeep sympathy to his widow anddaughter."

Mr. H. R. Morris, Gibbs, Bright &Company, NewcastIe:-"May I extendto all those responsible for the publi-cation of "Cockle Creek News" myheartiest congratulations on resultsachieved.

Gibbs, Bright & Co., the firm I havethe honour to represent at Newcastlehave much in common with the Sul-phide Corporation. We are the peoplewho arrange receipt and delivery ofyour sulphur, phosphate and otherbulk cargoes and see that they are de-livered to the Works with least possibledelay and if possible in their originalcondition.

But there are other reasons for thisattachment; I commenced my careeras a Junior Clerk at Sulphide. FrankJohnson was then a chubby facedyouth, always seen at lunch time eitherkicking a soccer ball around theworks or wielding a cricket bat or anyother implement resembling a cricketbat. Charlie Mann, Dave Evans, AlfEdden, Jim Reid and one of my bestfriends, the late Harry Lamb, are menI well remember. They were a wonder-ful bunch to work with and I feel thatthis spirit of comradeship still existsat Cockle Creek.

The publishing of this bulletin en-tails a tremendous amount of workand I trust that you will continue to

receive the full support and co-operation of all employees.

Good Luck."

I.S.C. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.Works Manager, Avonmouth.-"Many

thanks for the copies of the first edi-tion of "Cockle Creek News" and, atthe same time, allow me to congratu-late you on an excellent effort."

Editor, "Digest," Avonmoruth.-"Con-gratulations on your effort in CockleCreek News. Here is a tit-bit whichmay give you a paragraph: The Poolsintend running throughout the sum-mer this year and are using Australianmatches on the coupons. "Digest" willsay something about expecting sometips on current form from the "News."

Works Manager, Widnes. - "Verymany thanks for the three copies ofthe first edition of Cockle Creek News.Our contact with Cockle Creek has be-come more physical as Dai Jones hascome here as Superintendent, 'WhiteFinishing Plant. I am sure he wouldlike to send you a message wishingyou the very best of luck. Personally,I would like to congratulate you onthis edition and to wish you all suc-cess in this venture. We have foundour "News from the Vine" an excellentcement joining all the varied activi-ties of the Works into a happy unity.

The copies which you have sent willbe circulated to our Works Councillorsas I find that the activities of theAustralian side of our family are fol-lowed with at least equal interest tothe activities of other works in thiscountry. Please continue to send threecopies if at all possible."

Works Manager, Swansea Vale.-"Onbehalf of Swansea Vale may I offeryou and your Editorial Staff Our sincerecongratulations on the excellence ofyour 1st Edition. We feel sure that thehigh standard of this copy will bemaintained."

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