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ARPA Office Christmas closure: We close at 4pm on December 8th 2017 and reopen 10am on January 2nd 2018 News & contents ARPA NEWS Diving in East Timor (from front page) Contents 2 News/contents 3 News 4/5 Our History 6 Diary Dates 7 News 8 Now Showing 9 Council matters 10/11 Railway history 12 Puzzles and games 13 Books 14 Green Fingers 16/17 Activities East Timor diving locations near Dili 18 Classifieds Editor: Sheila Duncan Level 4, 25 Leigh Street, Adelaide 5000 PO Box 8247 Station Arcade SA 5000 Website: www.arpaactiveover50s.com.au Facebook:www.facebook.com/ arpaactiveover50s ABN: 93 661 993 592 Disclaimer: ARPA takes all care but no responsibility for the accuracy of information contained in the ARPA News. It does not necessarily endorse products or services advertised, nor necessarily agree with opinions expressed. A scene from Thunderball? No spear-guns allowed! © Copyright 2017 ARPA News

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ARPA News December / January 2018 © - Page 2 News ARPA Lawn Bowls Group - now running

The Lawn Bowls Group began with its inaugural meeting on 2nd November. All members are welcome to come and try whatever your level of experience. Beginners are taught by experienced Club members from Trinity Gardens Bowling Club. We play weekly on Thursday afternoons from 1pm at Trinity Gardens, 30 Canterbury Avenue. Bring sunscreen, hat, flat shoes (no heels). Uniform/whites not required. No meeting if temp 35 degrees or above. Enquiries or more information from David on 0417 822 560 or email: [email protected]

At right some of the ARPA members playing at Trinity Gardens.

Diving Adventure Trip to Dili, East Timor- to stay close to the wall otherwise we may get picked up with the current and end up on some distant shore, even Australia . It was One dark night in July I had a dream! - I was aquanauting beside an hauntingly awesome and so wonderful with 30+m visibility. It infinite underwater cliff in clear warm water. In the morning over was all possible due to perfect weather. Everyone cooperated and a coffee I thought why not! I had not scuba dived for 16 years and harmonised to make it the success it was. now in my mid 70’s it would be risky. Allan The target was September, - a tight time frame to prepare and upgrade myself and recondition and replace equipment. My pressure and depth gauge combo from 1979 was still OK and this ARPA GOLF in LOXTON (pictures - back page) supplemented a new wrist mounted dive computer. The ARPA Golf Group has just returned from our annual country Arriving at Darwin Airport I met up with the other members of trip. This year we went to Loxton with a record number of Golfers the trip group who were from Newcastle NSW. I was in esteemed and their partners - 31 Golfers attended and 9 Partners (Non company on the Air North flight in having Jose Ramos-Horta four Golfers). rows behind me. At Dili we were warmly welcomed by the Dive Master, Francisco from Chile who transported us to the Timor We stayed for 2 nights at the Loxton Hotel Motel in the Gardenview Lorasae Dive Centre on the Esplanade. rooms, enjoying breakfast in the dining room each morning and dinner each night. At 7:30 the next morning we headed for the docks to board our dive boat which was soon foaming out from Dili across the flat Arriving on Tuesday afternoon and settling in we then set about calm blue sea to our dive site in the shadow of the headland statue enjoying ourselves at Happy hour. On Wednesday the Golfers of Christo Rei. pooled cars and drove across to Renmark for our first game. The Renmark course was in excellent condition but the greens had been I was soon enveloped in fantasia with 27 degrees C and 27metres visibility and amazing marine creatures, coral stacks and sponge recently cored and were a bit sandy and slow. With the Golfers on stacks bigger than a double wardrobe. E.Timor is basically a the course the partners split into two groups, one group visiting volcanic mountain range, the underwater profile is similar. The the township of Renmark and the other visiting the Lavender farm. third day was the fulfilment of my dream and the reality of On Thursday we headed out to the Loxton Golf Course for our aquanauting alongside the sheer underwater cliff wall at “The Cove” in the lee of Atauro Island, 20 Km North of Dili. We were warned second game whilst the partners explored the township of Loxton.

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A LOOK AT EARLY SOUTH AUSTRALIAN HISTORY Another early explorer was Johann Menge (1788-1852) who by 1839 had visited the Barossa twice and who continued THE EXPLORERS exploring and searching for minerals, until in 1852, at the age of 64 he walked all the way to the The good folk in London who supported the founding of Victorian diggings where he died. South Australia in the 1830s had very little idea of what the new colony they were espousing was actually like. They knew The explorers were tough, brave next to nothing about the topography, climate, rainfall, soil and tenacious men, as they had quality and other characteristics of this new land; consequently to be, slogging their way in up exploration of the countryside would assume very high priority to 40 degree heat across waterless once settlement began. desert, vast dry salt lakes and stony plains. They were greatly Apart from some whalers who had founded a small settlement helped by local Aborigines who at Fowlers Bay in the far west, only three Europeans had set had already explored the entire foot in South Australia before 1836. One was Matthew Flinders state over the centuries and (1774-1814) who sailed the whose detailed knowledge of its southern coast from west terrain, especially the location of to east in 1802 charting waterholes, was of immeasurable the coastline as he went value to the Europeans. and sailing all the way up Spencer and St Vincent Serious exploration began early. The first was Edward John Eyre Gulfs in the hope of finding (1815-1901) who in 1839 explored the area from Pt Lincoln a strait which was believed to Streaky Bay, then north to the Flinders Ranges and the to stretch all the way to the salt lakes, and finally in 1840/41 with immense difficulty and Gulf of Carpentaria. On accompanied only by an Aboriginal called Wylie he crossed his next voyage in which the western desert of SA and WA and reached Albany. For this he circumnavigated the achievement he was awarded the founder’s gold medal of the country he did not go near Royal Geographical Society in 1847 (what award Wylie received, the South Australian coast a if any, is not recorded.) second time but stayed out to sea. On these voyages he Eyre put forward the theory that the north was simply one had with him Trim, a remarkable cat who was born on board enormous horseshoe shaped salt lake which was widely accepted ship in 1799 and who fell overboard as a kitten but managed for a couple of decades. unaided to save himself by swimming after the ship and climbing up a rope. He became Flinders’ inseparable companion, sharing Also from 1839 explorers went east. Charles Bonney came his detention in Mauritius until he disappeared in 1806, overland from Pt Phillip through Mt Gambier and the Coorong while Flinders was detained until 1809 by a suspicious French and Edward Frome explored extensively east of the Flinders Governor who even ignored a personal order by Napoleon Ranges, from which he produced a negative report stating that himself to let him go. the land was no use either for agricultural or pastoral purposes.

On his first voyage along the South Australian coast Flinders John Darke (1806-1844) explored the area from Pt Lincoln by met the second explorer, a Frenchman, Nicolas Baudin (1754- way of Lake Wangary to Wudinna Hill and reported well grassed 1803) who was sailing in the opposite direction, and who went plains. He turned back from the Gawler Ranges where the land on to chart the south coast of Kangaroo Island, St Vincent Gulf was less attractive and was then fatally speared by Aborigines at (named by him Golfe de la Mauvaise) and Spencer Gulf (Golfe Darke Peak where he is buried. de la Melomanie) and on to Cape Adieu in the far west where he abandoned his voyage. The unluckiest explorer has to be John Horrocks (1818-46) who in 1846 travelled from Clare to Lake Dutton in search of The third explorer was Charles Sturt (1795-1867) who in 1830 good pastoral land. He had the only camel in the colony and went all the way down the Murray to its mouth in a small had the misfortune to be standing beside it on the shores of the rowboat – and then had to row all the way back against the lake whilst loading his gun. The camel moved suddenly and the current. He sent a favourable report back to London which gun discharged, knocking off two of Horrocks’ fingers as well unfortunately may have given an inaccurate idea of what the as several teeth so he was taken back to Clare where he died 3 rest of South Australia was like. weeks later, and was thereafter known as The Man Who Was Shot by His Own Camel. The first arrivals from 1836 were of necessity explorers as well as settlers in this unknown land. Foremost was Colonel Light In 1858 Benjamin Herschel Babbage (1815-1878) punched a who as soon as he arrived on Kangaroo Island set off to explore hole in Eyre’s theory of one enormous salt lake by discovering a Encounter Bay, then the land between Kangaroo Island and gap to the north east but nevertheless was fired by the authorities Holdfast Bay. He explored and surveyed the miles between in Adelaide for being ‘too slow’. His successor was Peter Egerton Holdfast Bay and the Adelaide Plain. He went to Port Lincoln Warburton (1813-1889) who finally killed off the theory by as well, made two trips into the Barossa Valley and in May 1839 establishing the separate existence of the two lakes Eyre and he took part in a journey to look for a northerly route to the Torrens. River Murray. He died six months later. In 1862 after several attempts John MacDouall Stuart (1815-

ARPA News December / January 2018 © - Page 4 OUR HISTORY 1866) became the first to Adelaide where he caused a sensation by introducing them to explorer to cross the continent the Governor and his wife, Lord and Lady Tennyson. He also from south to north beating introduced the Aborigines to a mirror and they were fascinated Burke and Wills and ensuring by their own reflections prancing and capering and waving their that the Overland Telegraph arms about. would be built in SA and NT rather than the eastern Maurice loved the harsh desert life, writing to a friend in 1898 states. As a surveyor as well as ‘I prefer this life to that of civilisation. The latter is false and the explorer he surveyed a number former, if rough, is natural.’ But it must have taken a toll on his of sections of his route as he health for he died in 1909 of a heart attack at only 49 years of went along, checking if they age. were suitable for the Overland Telegraph which would be The conclusion from exploration by the end of the 1840s had built a decade later along the been that there was only a small fertile area, with sand and Ernest Giles route he pioneered. limestone of the Murray Plains to the east, a vast horseshoe of dry salt lake to the north and waterless desert to the west. For Ernest Giles (1835-1877) explored Central Australia in 1872 the rest of the century explorers simply confirmed, expanded and then in 1875 made the journey from Pt Augusta to Perth, or occasionally disproved the earlier findings. The collective travelling through the western desert of SA and the formidable achievement of these men was a major contributor to the Great Victoria Desert of WA. For this achievement he was opening up of the state to settlement in the nineteenth century. made a fellow and gold medallist of the Royal Geographical Society. Frances Dudley REFERENCES By now most of the state had been covered and later explorers simply amplified earlier discoveries. The last explorer of the Atlas of South Australia 1986 – Griffin & McCaskill 19th Century was Richard Thelwall Maurice (1859-1909), Dictionary of Australian Biography. Vols 1 – 6; 1966-1976 the son of a wealthy man who in 1894 inherited a substantial bequest when his father died. For three years he lived it Contributors: H M Cooper, D Morris, L Green, G Dutton, up in Adelaide – drinking, playing polo, and indulging in J Chittleborough, G H Stancombe, H J Gibney, G W Symes, freakish feats such as riding his polo pony into the South D Deasey, L Marchant/J Reynolds, D Elder Australia Hotel and up the stairs to the first floor balcony to greet friends sitting there. (The hotel management was not The Unknown Explorer: The Life, Times and Travels of Richard amused!) In 1897, in an abrupt change of lifestyle, Maurice Thelwall Maurice. 2015 Neville Collins quit Adelaide for Fowlers Bay, bought some camels, and “Murray Bridge Station 1898”: At busy Murray Bridge Station re-established contact with Aborigines he had known in previous in 1898, on the left-hand track an “E” Class 2-4-0T No 14 kangaroo-shooting days. In the next three years, accompanied waits with a passenger train. On the right, “R” Class 4-6-0s Nos by various Aborigines he made five expeditions into the far 25 and 20 double-head a goods train. State Library of South western desert and over the border into WA and the NT. Then Australia, PRG 327/24/97. in 1901 on a journey to the Mann Ranges on the border with “Aldgate Station 1900”: At a quiet Aldgate in 1900 “R” Class NT he stumbled on the mummified body of murdered gold 4-6-0 No 144 waits in the station. State Library of South prospector Ted Warman. After this trip he took two Aborigines Australia, PRG 327/24/42.

ARPA News December / January 2018 © - Page 5 Diary Dates

Christmas Proms A Little Night Music is a tangled web of romantic Friday, December 15th 11am involvements that continue to surprise us with their Her Majesty’s Theatre, Grote Street, Adelaide twists and turns. Featuring the song, Send in the Tickets $35.00 (includes booking fee) available clowns and a beautiful lush score. A Little Night from Level 4, 25 Leigh St, Adelaide, or see tear off. Music is a story of love, nostalgia, regret and the Glorious - The story of Florence Foster Jenkins. magic of music on a summer’s night Saturday, February 17th 2018 at 2pm Arts Theatre 53 Angas Street, Adelaide Tickets $22.00 available from Level 4, 25 Leigh Street, Adelaide or see tear off. A wonderful comedy about the true-life worst singer in the world. In 1940s New York, the performer who everyone wanted to see live was Florence Foster Jenkins, an enthusiastic soprano whose pitch was far from perfect. Heart-warming and hilarious! Frankenstein Saturday, April 14th, 2018 at 2pm Arts Theatre, 53 Angas Street, Adelaide Tickets $17 available from Level 4, 25 Leigh Street, Adelaide or see tear off. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in appearance, Frankenstein’s bewildered Creature is cast out into a hostile world by his horrified maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. A Little Night Music Saturday, April 28th, 2018 at 1.30pm Arts Theatre, 53 Angas Street, Adelaide Tickets $33 available from Level 4, 25 Leigh Street, Adelaide or see tear off.

ARPA News December / January 2018 © - Page 6 News Remembering Terry an Order of Australia Medal in the 1994 Australia Day honours. Lavender In 1998 it was decided that it was feasible to build the Federation Trail from Murray Bridge to Clare. The trail was renamed the With your support the Winston Churchill ‘Lavender Federation Trail’ in 2004 in honour of Terry. Today, Memorial Trust in conjunction with the South Terry’s vision continues with the construction of the longest trail Australian Churchill Fellows’ Association is designed, built and maintained entirely by volunteers in this planning to establish a Terry Lavender Churchill country. In April 2016, a milestone in trails in South Australia Fellowship in honour of his contribution to the occurred when both the Heysen and Lavender Federation Trails SA community through the development of walking trails. joined at Webb Gap. On completion, one of Australia’s longest This Fellowship will provide a South Australian with an amazing trail networks (of over 1700 km) will be available to walk. opportunity to follow their passion overseas to investigate ways Terry is remembered as comfortably at home in his Akubra to develop, improve, manage and promote outdoor recreational hat and bush clothes. He was legendary for his yarntelling, trails and pursuits and to bring their experience and knowledge knowledge of the bush and the history of the area. These back home for the benefit of our community. skills together with a sense of humour, drive, persistence and Terry had always loved the outdoor life, being a keen walker, determination achieved the agreement for the Heysen Trail mountain climber, sailor, canoeist, caver, and Outward Bound across government departments and private land owners. This instructor. Terry and Ann married in 1969 and came to Adelaide is clearly evident in his book “The Last Post...or how to build as ‘Ten Pound Poms’. Ann described Terry as looking towards the the Heysen Trail in 400 years or less”. He also co-authored Adelaide Hills on their arrival and knowing where he would be ”Strolling South Australia” and two volumes of “The Heysen headed. They found work and settled in Salisbury. Trail: A Walker’s Guide”. His books and maps are the bible for walkers tackling the trail. Terry Lavender has left a lasting legacy Terry moved from the National Fitness Council to various State in South Australia that will never be forgotten. Government Departments over the years. Initially he developed the network of walking trails in the Adelaide Hills. In 1978, If you would like to help establish a Churchill Fellowship in he became the main designer for the Heysen walking trail and honour of Terry Lavender you can easily make a donation of oversaw its construction until it was completed in 1992. any amount securely online at https://fundraise.giveeasy.org/ campaigns/terry-lavender/ Terry travelled overseas on his Churchill Fellowship in 1991 to examine multiuse recreational trails. From his report Terry had For donations of $500 or more you can contact the Churchill over 50 meetings or visits in Canada, USA and UK. Many of Trust directly on 02 6247 8333 or email seo@churchilltrust. these took hours as he walked the actual trails. On his return com.au to make suitable arrangements. The Trust is recognised there was further development of the Mawson and Riesling as a not-for-profit organisation by the Australian Taxation Office cycling trails and advisory input for the Tom Roberts Horse Trail. (ATO). Bequests and donations are fully tax deductible to fund Terry’s work on recreation trails was recognised when he received a Churchill Fellowship.

ARPA News December / January 2018 © - Page 7 Now Showing / Giveaways CAPRI New Year’s Eve Show Summer Movies We love a spot of gift wrapped anything, Come along for a bit of old world but once the last Christmas present atmosphere and see the organ rise out of is unwrapped you’ll need something excellent to look forward to, like an old the stage and play in the evening session school movie night on New Year’s Eve! on Tuesday, Friday and Saturday evenings, 15 minutes before the scheduled screening For your entertainment pleasure, we have time. the delightful Babs (Barbra Streisand) in her iconic role as Dolly Levy in Hello Why not visit us, we are the only cinema proudly stocking Haigh’s Dolly. We also have all the old school Chocolates at the Candy bar, along with hot popcorn and a selection trimmings, such as a newsreel, cartoon, of wines & beer for you to enjoy. shorts and an intermission. Not to mention that the evening is being Here are some of the movies coming soon, check the website hosted by the grand Duke and Dame of (http://www.capri.org.au/) for all sessions times and updates. Adelaide, Peter Goers and Anne Wills! Star Wars - Last Jedi, The Greatest Showman, Paddington 2, Coco, 7.00pm Foyer Opens (Bar open / Piano) Ferdinand, Streep & Hanks - The Post. 7.40pm Cinema open / Organ 8.00pm Stage – Willsy & Peter welcome guests intro programme 8.05pm Newsreel / Cartoon / Short 8.35pm Hello Dolly (Part One) 9.50pm Interval 10.10pm Stage – Willsy & Peter – Raffle Draw 10.15pm Hello Dolly (Part Two) 11.30pm FINISH – DRINKS / NIBBLES in Foyer 11.45pm Organ (Claire Baker) 11.58pm Stage – Willsy & Peter COUNTDOWN 12 Midnight Happy New Year! A History Discussion Group? Ever wonder why different countries have different legal, 1. New Year’s Eve Giveaway political and social systems? Thanks to our Friends at the Capri Theatre, we have How has our past history a limited number of double passes to give away to the affected our lives? Hello Dolly New Year’s Eve Show. Would you like to be part of a 2. Holiday Film Pass Giveaway history discussion group? Topics can be as varied as the group decides. For example you Thanks to our Friends at the Capri Theatre, we have a might like to discuss British limited number of double passes to give away to any and Colonial history, Australia film in the Summer Movie screenings at the Capri Theatre over the holidays. in the World Wars, the history How to win a double film of inventions (e.g. porcelain), how tomatoes and potatoes or concert pass changed our lives over the centuries, or any other topic To go into the draw for a double pass to either event: of interest. • phone the ARPA Office on 8211 9711 between 10am and 12 noon only on Thursday 7th December or Be a part of the group and suggest your topics for discussion. • email ARPA at [email protected] or • write to ARPA at PO Box 8247, Station Arcade, If you would like to be a Adelaide, SA 5000. part of this group register your interest by phoning Note: Letters / emails to be received by Friday 8th 8211 9711 and leave us your December C.O.B. at the latest. details. We will contact you back when we have enough Winners only will be notified by mail by Friday numbers to start the group 15th December. ARPA News December / January 2018 © - Page 8 TitleCouncil Matters

From The Council or by clicking on the “f” logo on the top available to all members for download right of the ARPA Active Over 50s web from the Members Area of our web site The new ARPA Council has met twice page). Have a look at our Facebook page or by borrowing a copy from your Group since the last issue of ARPA News. A and please “like” and “follow” it. Coordinator. full list of Council members and Office Bearers is shown below. I would like to Facebook is a recent addition to our In late October many of you received the welcome Glen Russ and Anthea Magarey internet presence. All ARPA Active Over first edition of “ARPA News Online”. to Council. They were elected for a two 50s groups are able to have material posted This is a short email that highlights the year term at the last AGM held in the either publicly, or privately through a latest news and upcoming activities. “new” ARPA Offices on 12th October closed Group page and this includes photos Longer stories and photos are available 2017. The AGM was attended by 30 and short news items. Council encourages on the news featured by following the people. you and your Group to get involved in links in ARPA News Online. It will be our Facebook page. Just contact Mark in produced occasionally if there is news Following the AGM we were joined by the Office about providing us with items that missed the previous edition of ARPA Adelaide City Councillor Phillip Martin, suitable for posting to the page. It is a News and could be out of date before the who officially opened our updated Office quick way to reach many people with short next printed copy reaches you. ARPA and meeting areas. Councillor Martin and interesting items and photos of Group News Online does not replace the printed spoke of the importance of keeping active activities. magazine but supplements it. and involved as we age - all the things that ARPA Active Over 50s offers. He The rules relating to posting such items If you did not receive the email of ARPA also spoke about the Well Being Index in are contained in a new Chapter 7A: Social News Online please ring the Office which Adelaide seniors’ population rates Media Policy in the ARPA Active Over 50s and make sure that we have your email very highly. Group Operating Manuals. This chapter address. also covers the guidelines for members There is a photo of Councillor Martin and posting ARPA Active Over 50s related I would like to wish all members a happy myself with a short story on the ARPA material on personal sites and pages. and safe Christmas and New Year. Active Over 50s Facebook page (available David French - President at www.facebook.com/arpaactiveover50s The Group Operating Manuals are

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David French - President Peter Williams - Council member Frances Dudley - Vice President Rae Brunner - Council member Steve Bruland - Secretary Anthea Magarey - Council member Paul McCarthy - Treasurer Ron Capel - Council member Glen Russ - Council member

Welcome

ARPA would like to extend a warm welcome to the following new members who joined our Association during September and October 2017.

Shirley Arnold Anthony McIntyre Tiffany Bolton Michael & Marion Moore Vivienne Buckton Sharon O’Loughlin Marian Burley Allan Penhall & Jean Williams Elda Catalano Nevil & Raelene Rosser Dennis Crowe Emma Salter Nannette Donnison Kay Schultz Amanda Draper Wayne Shepard Maurice Furler Trudy Thorp Stanley Gray Lou Van Elsen Rae Howison Norma Walsh Barbara Lander Walter Watt Michael Lockley Phyllis Whellams Ellie Lloyd ARPA News December / January 2018 © - Page 9 SA Railways History

SOUTH AUSTRALIA’S RAILWAY train from Petersburg drew into the station. avoid broad-gauge points at intermediate HISTORY However there was a delay in the official stations; a separate narrow-gauge station opening owing to a lack of water for steam would have to be built at Adelaide, plus “The oddest, strangest thing”: Terowie’s engines at Terowie. A wag sent a wire to several other costly facilities. Unsurprisingly break-of-gauge station one of the local bigwigs, pointing out that “I the plan did not materialise. FOLLOWING A VISIT to Australia in have every motive for visiting you except a Two months later the South Australian 1895 Mark Twain, the American writer and locomotive.” Chronicle pulled no punches alleging that humourist, wrote of his travels as follows: “A Nonetheless, from that day on, every Terowie station had been badly designed singular thing: the oddest thing, the strangest passenger and item of goods – from the for break-of-gauge. Businesses were thing, the most baffling and unaccountable smallest consigned parcel to bulk freight complaining about delays in the trans- marvel that Australasia can show… All – travelling to and from the north had to shipment of goods, which sometimes remained on trucks for longer than it had passengers fret at the double-gauge, all shippers pass through Terowie, to be trans-shipped previously taken horse teams to deliver of freight must of course fret at it; unnecessary from broad-gauge to narrow-gauge or vice expense, delay and annoyance are imposed from Broken Hill (296km away): “Recently versa. Passengers often had time to enjoy goods waited three weeks to be trans- upon everybody concerned, and no one has a meal in the first or second-class dining benefited.” shipped”; “Two hundred trucks were in the rooms, costing 2s and 1s 6d respectively. A yard loaded with goods.” The Chronicle He was referring to the curious Australian bell would conveniently alert diners to their added that to overcome backlogs, phenomenon known as the break of gauge, train’s imminent departure. employees accustomed to 9½ hour shifts which required trains to stop at colonial Freight trains arrived with trucks full of had to work for up to 15 hours; whereas borders or in the middle of nowhere in coal, coke, ores, bullion, rails, wire, sleepers, local unemployed men were promised order that passengers and goods could be bricks, bones, pipes, bridgework, bran, oats, work. This did not happen because staff trans-shipped onto another train that would flour, chaff, wool, timber, roping, sheeting were being transferred from other stations continue the journey on a different gauge. and other commodities. A large contingent to assist. In the 1850s, ‘60s and ‘70s South Australia’s of contracted men was employed to trans- A major hindrance to the rapid transfer of railway network spread outwards across ship the goods, utilising short-term storage bulk freight was the need to give priority the state from Adelaide, but utilised two buildings, goods sheds, a gantry transfer to livestock trains. Another was the use different gauges - 5ft 3in (broad-gauge) and crane, maintenance departments, fuel and of the passenger platform for the trans- 3ft 6in (narrow-gauge). This necessitated water storage, employees’ amenities and shipment of bulk goods: since passenger the creation of break-of-gauge stations catering arrangements. Furthermore, the trains arriving between 12.30pm and 3pm at Hamley Bridge (mid-north), Wolseley complexity of trans-shipping livestock took precedence, the transfer of goods (near Bordertown) and the most significant, necessitated vast yarding facilities. was inevitably delayed, with half a day frequently being lost. Terowie. Problems emerge Many proposals were made to improve The township of Terowie, 68km north of In September 1887, only six years after the the efficiency at Terowie (for example, Burra, had been founded by an by relocating cattle and sheep ramps and English pastoral settler, John platforms outside the station, lengthening Aver Mitchell, who obtained a platforms, erecting transfer platforms etc), licence for the Terowie Hotel, but few were acted upon. In any event, as the first property, built in 1874. road transport developed in the early 20th In that year Premier James century, the railways were not equipped Boucaut moved in the House of to meet competition because of minimal Assembly that plans be drawn for expenditure by governments on upgrading a “tramway from the extended their infrastructure. end of the Burra Railway north- Nevertheless, the opening of the Trans- east towards the Barrier Ranges” Australian Railway in 1917 further (a distance of 360km). increased activity, causing all traffic moving Partly owing to the discovery to and from the north and west to pass of gold at Waukaringa, Mount through Terowie. This ceased in 1937 when Trans-shippers at work c. 1909 (B32913) Browne and Teetulpa, Terowie had the Adelaide-Redhill broad-gauge line was quickly become the self-styled “Hub of the extended to Port Pirie. break-of-gauge station had opened, all was North” for the supply of goods (wool going Wartime south and timber moving north to the not well. The South Australian Register reported that a proposal had been made to During World War II a large military goldfields) and services (mail and coaches) staging camp was established near Terowie to and from newly developing areas, with as the SA Assembly to lay an additional rail on the 5ft 3in line linking Terowie with Hamley station to expedite transport of troops many as 50 horse and bullock teams in the and materials to the north, including town at any one time. Bridge and Adelaide, enabling narrow-gauge (3ft 6in) freight trains to travel all the way ammunition and explosives produced in Two railways arrive between the capital and the north without factories in the Adelaide suburbs. This had the effect of increasing the local population Terowie station opened on 14 December a break-of-gauge stop. However, since the to over 5,000. Some servicemen were glad station yards at Adelaide and Port Adelaide 1880, when the first broad-gauge train their stay was brief. One said: “I only spent were so complicated, this would necessitate arrived from Adelaide via Burra. Just one night in Terowie. We were warned a narrow-gauge depot at each location; over two months later it became a double about the water and the problems if you furthermore, loop lines would be required to terminus, when the first narrow-gauge washed your hair. We were not told about

ARPA News December / January 2018 © - Page 10 SA Railways History the cold – minus eight degrees! I slept with arrive on the narrow-gauge line from Leigh and his feet protruding on the other side; my service dress on and my army boots. Creek (375km): the tippler would take one mercifully he managed to survive intact. Never did get to try the water: the pipes bogie wagon or three 4-wheel trucks, lifting The flow of coal from Leigh Creek to Terowie were frozen and icicles hung from the taps”. them 135 degrees to enable the coal to fall into ceased when the Northern Power Station Another gatecrashed the pictures: “It was broad-gauge wagons to form 900-ton trains was opened near Port Augusta. A 260km a terrible show, but we were still robbed”. to Port Adelaide. Although it displaced back- standard-gauge railway was built in 1957 An anonymous GI had cause to wonder breaking shovelwork those who operated the between the mine, Stirling North, and the whether any Terowie resident had ever lost equipment “had a black, dirty, dusty job”. plant. The final death knells for the famous any prized homing pigeons (which had break-of-gauge were the conversion of the provided a delicious supper at the American During wartime the town of Terowie was a hive of activity, boasting a town hall, council Terowie-Peterborough railway to broad- camp). gauge in 1969 and the standardisation of chambers, post office, 2 banks, 2 hotels, 2 the Crystal Brook-Peterborough line in The war caused an almost seven-fold rise in general stores, a grocery and greengrocery 1970. In that year trans-shipments ended traffic through Terowie. Consequently, the store, a blacksmith’s shop, 2 delicatessens, 2 yard was trebled in size by the building of a at Terowie. The late 1980s saw the final garages, 2 bakers, a butcher, a hairdresser, a subsidiary siding to the south of the original regular passenger service, the last passenger hospital, 2 schools, 4 churches and a CWA yard, with 3 broad-gauge and 3 narrow- train to run through the station and then gauge tracks either side of a long platform. branch that “did a marvellous job for the the last broad-gauge goods train; Terowie The load on one 5ft 3in gauge train had soldiers passing through”. It was a truly was reduced to a crossing loop before the to be transferred onto three 3ft 6in gauge vibrant community. line closed for ever. trains for the journey north. Virtually overnight the town of Trans-shipments were executed Terowie tumbled into oblivion and by private contract: a contractor, the population, previously a thriving foreman, two sub-foremen and at 2,000, fell rapidly. An air of sadness least 40 labourers. Transfers were descended on the community, made across a platform 6 metres which would soon become virtually wide. Several gangs of contractors’ another Australian ghost town. men would work all day and through The old hospital became a B&B, the night if there was a backlog. If the station was closed and the goods were travelling northwards, tracks removed in the 1990s. The one man would unload from the platforms remain and it is now an broad-gauge truck, two men with open site, accessible to the public. Information boards tell the story of sack trucks would transfer the goods A troop train at Terowie station c.1943 (B72583/14) across the platform to the narrow- 90 years’ toil. After 144 years the 150 gauge truck, where a fourth man would The End inhabitants of Terowie are, in their own stow them therein. Whereas the original words, struggling to keep the historic town transfer platform was covered, the new one In its heyday about 80 trains served Terowie on the map. each day. But after the war the writing was was open to the elements; it was arduous Peter Williams work, particularly for those who transferred on the wall for SA’s railway network and truckloads of ore from Broken Hill using even more so for Terowie. Competition from long-handled shovels. It was bitterly cold road transport increased, squeezing passenger traffic. A study of the 1953 timetable might IMPORTANT NOTE: Maps and tables to in winter: as one employee explained, “… accompany these articles can be viewed on especially at two in the morning when reveal why: a journey on the iconic Broken Hill Express linking the Silver City and Adelaide the ARPA Active Over 50s website (www. standing on a small wooden ramp, without arpaactiveover50s.com.au) by logging any shelter, while trans-shipping sheep!” was surely quite an ordeal. It departed from Broken Hill at 7.48pm, arriving at Cockburn into the Members’ Area and opening the During busy times trains were arriving or on the SA border at 9.21pm. From there it magazine page. Explanatory notes are departing at almost every hour of the day would be hauled by a powerful “400” Class provided. or night. In addition to the trans-shippers, Garratt narrow-gauge locomotive, arriving References there were almost 100 station staff: the at 3.58am in Peterborough. Here it reversed, Broad Gauge Steam: The Final Decades, by stationmaster, 2 assistants, 5 clerks, 2 pulled by a new locomotive to Terowie, Kenn Pearce; telegraphists, 3 yardmasters, 2 guards, a arriving at 4.50am for a 20-minute break-of- The Long Haul: Australian National 1978- loco foreman, 3 chargemen, 3 loco fitters, gauge stop. From Terowie the broad-gauge 1988, by Peter Donovan and Bernard 8 enginemen, 8 firemen, an electrical fitter, train was due to arrive in Adelaide at 9.20am O’Neil; 2 brake fitters, 16 porters, 12 shunters, 5 – a journey of 582km in a total time of 13 Progressive Terowie, by Edward J Robertson; passenger car cleaners, 3 train examiners, a hours 32 minutes, an average overall speed of Terowie, by John N Morcomb (text of talk refreshment room manager/ess, 3 waitresses, 43km/h! in 1999); 4 check porters, 6 track maintenance men The Tyranny of Distance, by Geoffrey and a Railway Transport Officer. Employees A former employee during the 1960s recalled with affection his working life at Terowie. Blainey (Pan MacMillan Publishers often worked from 96 to 104 hours in a Australia, 1983); fortnight. His favourite day was Thursday, when the pay car arrived from Adelaide. All employees Personalities along the Track: Gladstone’s After the Leigh Creek coalfields opened would collect their paypacket, then go to the Tribute to our Railway Workers (Gladstone in the 1940s, the volume of freight trans- pub to pay their bill, buy a bottle or two and CDTA). shipped increased yet again. To expedite the spend the afternoon drinking. After his drink I Remember: Anecdotes of Terowie Staging process, a giant coal tippler was installed in one venerable brake fitter used to take a nap Camp 1940-45, by Marina Gray; 1944. Every 6 hours a 660-ton train would under a wagon, his head on the railway line All photos c/- State Library of SA

ARPA News December / January 2018 © - Page 11 Puzzles and Games

CROSSWORD 045 ACROSS DOWN 1. Transylvania is there 1. Rectified 4. Made slip-up 2. Dog or horse 7. Baby fierce cat (4,3) 3. London’s Marble ... 8. Steam burn 4. Recedes 9. Consumer pressure 5. Recurrence of illness 12. Adopted (policy) 6. ... Sea Scrolls 15. Water removal system 10. Exclude 17. Radio interference 11. Fencing swords 18. Embroidery expert 13. Divulge 21. Anchorage native 14. Awry 22. Alter (text) 16. Type of cigar 23. Fling, shipboard ... 18. Benefit (of) 19. South African currency For solutions to 20. Scalp growth puzzles see page 19

ARPA Quiz 1. What can you find on Mount Lee in California? 2. Fescue, Foxtail, Ruppia and Quitch are types of what? 3. In the twelve labours of Hercules, what was the third labour? 4. In Heraldry, what symbol is a lymphad? 5. Whose cases were Empty House, Copper Beeches and Black Peter? 6. What is the currency of Costa Rica? 7. In the Christmas Carol what does your true love give to you on the eight day? 8. What is the capital of the Ukraine? 9. Which Roman Emperor has the name that translates to ‘little boats’?

10. Who composed Peter and the Wolf?

ARPA News December / January 2018 © - Page 12 Books

Author: Rhondda Harris behaviour. Those with life sentences were transported to Van Title: “Ashton’s Hotel, the journal of William Diemen’s Land. Blake Ashton, first governor of Adelaide Ashton died in 1854, after 15 years in service. Newspaper reports Goal” quoted in the text indicate some of the difficulties he faced from Publisher: Wakefield Press, 2017 government officials during his tenure. The extensive index lists those involved in governance in the colony at the time. Ashton began his journal in 1839. Its story is the story of the establishment of the city of The author has provided an introduction relating to the discovery Adelaide from makeshift tents and packing of the journal and an explanation for the use of the words in the case huts to the solid buildings we see today. journal, such as ‘lunatic’, ‘native’, which are not in use today. ‘Mentally ill’, and ‘indigenous people’ have replaced them in some The book’s cover picture shows a stout, smiling gentleman, instances in her text. surrounded by a motley group of characters, including a young lad, assumed to be his a son, and a dog. The book gives an unusual but absorbing account of the birth of The journal begins as a daily account of the work carried out in South Australia. I.F. the temporary goal which was situated east of the present day Government House. Ashton’s contributions recorded not only the details of the work, but also his concern for the many difficulties in ARPA MAGAZINE PRODUCTION DATES the lives of the early colonists. The serious overcrowding and the ease of escape, led to the planning Deadline for items for February 2018 / March 2018 ARPA NEWS of a more substantial building. Only half of the plan for the present is Monday 1st January 2018. building was completed by its opening in 1841, due to lack of Folding days for February 2018 / March 2018 are Thursday 1st & finance. Friday 2nd February. The records show that most inmates were there for stealing, drunkenness, debt and petty crimes. The nature of the crimes MORE DEADLINES: changed as the colony developed. There were frequent references to the mentally ill being jailed, often in solitary confinement for their, Items: Monday, 5th March 2018 for April / May 2018 Newsletter. and the other inmates’, safety. Women, children and aborigines Folding days for April / May 2018 Newsletter will be Thursday 5th were also incarcerated. Aston’s wife, Charlotte, became matron & Friday 6th April. for the care of the women. Solitary confinement, whipping, bread and water rations, and irons were common punishments for bad

ARPA News December / January 2018 © - Page 13 TitleGreen Fingers Our Plot little pink flower on one end. I put the leaf on the edge of a pot. The leaf rotted away but the flower, which is no bigger than a Spring came and went. High winds, storms and hail stones. couple of mm, is still there. I am scared to water it in case of Nothing unusual really. Our farmers and market gardeners are a overwatering and it rots away but if I don’t it still may rot away. resilient mob of wonderful people. They just get on with it and I think that I will just spray it a little every now and then and see send us our tucker as usual while the members of parliament what happens. I don’t know where a couple of others came from. procrastinate?? They are about a two of inches long and have been flowering for There are still many things to do in our garden even though it a few weeks. is only 10X3m. It’s probably time to give the garden gnomes Our rhubarb is in its third year and has three leaves which are a “freshen” up. There are the first that have ever looked like the real thing. I have never a lot of bright colours in been able to keep a rhubarb plant for more than a season and the acrylic paint tubes to now have one that we grew from a seedling. We have a friend give them a new life and who grows them in three large pots in the shade of trees in her brighten up the back yard. back yard. She says the secret is to not over water and don’t There are many brightfertilize it. I use a water meter on this one and only water when flowers that can be put in it shows “very low”. This appears to be working. pots on the wall and around Flowering succulents the yard. People ask us how There are always weeds coming up in our pots and I do not pull and when we prune our salvias and lemon verbena bush. With them up when first seen. One appeared the other day in a 4 inch many of the popular salvias its late autumn when the canes are pot that I had re-potted not long before, so I gently pulled it. long and there is regrowth showing at the base. This is when the The root system of that weed was about the same as the depth old canes are cut back leaving the new growth to come away. If of the pot. Probably that weed would have taken over the pot you haven’t cut yours back you can still cut away the long canes if left to grow. Weeding all the pots is but make sure you do not cut new growth. a bit of a bind so I need a small tool to work in our pots. I think that one I have now pruned our lemon verbena. The bush is about 2m of those two ended spatula type tools tall and in midwinter, when the last of its leaves were obviously that plasterers use would do the job. drying out, I cut most canes right back to the main trunk but left some with a few growth buds. In late September they started Talking of weeds I don’t think that to sprout and now they are growing and are about a foot long. I told you that we were given one Repaint gnomes In a month they will be full length and shade the area until of those gas fire weed wands. I walk next autumn. Six leaves steeped in a cup of hot water makes a around the yard and cook anything in refreshing tea during the summer. sight but by gee it gets rid of weeds. Somewhere along the line I have acquired some succulents. They Keep on composting and feeding your worm farm are interesting little things and need little watering and grow Robin from almost nothing. I had a single leaf which had a delicate

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1. Christmas Proms - Fri. 15th Dec. @ 11am ______$35.00 NOTE - CHANGES to POSTAGE 2. Glorious - Sat. 17th Feb @ 2pm ______$22.00 Postage and handling for tickets: 3. Frankenstein - Sat. 14th April @ 2pm ______$17.00 - $2 for 1 or 2 shows 5. A Little Night Music - Sat. 28th April @ 1.30pm ______$33.00 - $3 for 3 or 4 shows 6. A Moment of your time (Stuart Hart book) ______$20.00 - $4 for 5 or more shows

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ART APPRECIATION Weekly walks are graded A, B, C or D. New 2397 Tours of the Art Gallery of SA are led by walkers are asked to start with C or D walks. D Mon 22, Parklands, Faye 0417 553 790 Gallery Guides twice monthly for ARPA walkers meet in the city and use public transport Fri 26, Cut off 28°. Pioneer Women’s Trail – members from the Santos Atrium at the back to and from the walk. Jenny 8431 6856 of the Gallery. Financial members of ARPA Active Over 50’s The topics for February and March 2018 are: are eligible to join ARPA Bushwalker and are CARAVAN GROUP All ARPA members always welcome. If you Monday, 26th February: China and the World welcome to participate in two trial walks before prefer to come for just a day or two rather than Monday, 26th March: Conversations between joining and paying the ARPA Bushwalkers the whole week, then that’s fine by us. Some Neighbours Annual Membership Fees, which is from members without vans prefer to stay in cabins Thursday, 13th February:China and the 1 January to 31 December each year. and join in the fun. More information from our World All ARPA Bushwalkers must renew their Annual Coordinator Coordinator: Peter on 0412 842 713 Thursday 13th March: Conversations between Membership fees with both ARPA Active Over or email [email protected] Neighbours 50’s (yearly or 3 yearly) and ARPA Bushwalkers Enquiries to Janet 8235 0113 (for second (yearly) if they wish to continue walking regularly Caravan Group Venues for 2018 Please contact the Caravan Group Coordinator if Thursday). The group meets in the atrium near with the ARPA Bushwalkers and participating in you are interested in coming to any of our rallies, the bookshop at 12.15 for a 12.30 start. other ARPA Bushwalkers activities. See ARPA Peter will be able to give you further information Enquiries to Cathie and Noel Millar 8355 1554 Bushwalkers website for further information and assist in your booking. for Mondays. Meet at the Coffee Shop at www.arpabushwalkers.org.au/membership. Sun 25 Feb – Sun 4 March Robe 10.15am for 10.30am. start. Please wear name General enquiries to Di 0422 962 879. Enquiries Sun 29 April - Sun 6 May Milang badges. for C walks to Coralie 8298 2397 or Helen 8293 4320. Enquiries for D walks to Colin 8449 7695 Sun 20 May - Sun 27 May Bright (Victoria) BACKYARD FRUIT AND or Maureen 8326 4242. Carry own drinking water, Sun 24 June - Sun 1 July Waikerie VEGETABLE GARDENING morning tea and lunch. Walks are cancelled if Sun 19 Aug - Sun 26 Aug Buronga All members welcome. We meet in each others’ temperature is 32° or higher, a leader nominates All venues are dog friendly gardens with occasional excursions to other a lower “cut off temperature”, a fire ban or places of interest to gardeners. COMPUTER GROUP extreme/severe weather is forecast for the walk The Computer Group’s major objective is “to Our aim is to share knowledge about gardening, area. An * indicates the leader will offer a hot promote and develop the use of computers and especially related to growing food. We do this in weather cancelled walk, temperature permitting, tablets for ARPA members”. a social atmosphere over a shared meal before on the next day. Meetings are on the third Friday of each month having a gentle stroll through the host’s garden. D walks for December – duration about 2-3 now meeting at ARPA, 4th floor, 25 Leigh Street, All meetings are at 1pm on the third hours. Adelaide. The meeting is from 11.00am to Thursday of the month. Thu 7, Cut off 28°. 4th Creek Trail. Isabel 0427 12.30pm with doors open at 10.00am for personal December meeting: Bill & Sylvia’s 081 022 help with computer problems. Meetings take January Meeting: Botanic Gardens Mon 18, North Parklands, Colleen 0435 267 498 the form of workshops, demonstrations and/or Addresses will be sent out in the usual reminder Thu 28 *Snowden Beach, Largs North, Rose presentations on various equipment, programs email. For further information contact Rob: 8248 2527 (apps) and maintenance requirements. Members [email protected] or phone D Walks for January – duration about 2-3 hours. and visitors always welcome. There is also limited 0458 959 018 Wed 3, Reservoir & Reserves to Old Reynella, availability of one-to-one computer training in Heather 8370 4830 BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP the ARPA office or in the home, at a very low Tue 9, Cut off 30°. Seacliff – Glenelg, Dalia 8358 Meet at ARPA office, Level 4, 25 Leigh Street, cost. 4533 Adelaide on the first Friday of each month Future meeting topics: Thu 18, *McLaren Vale Heritage Walk, Maureen (except January) at 1.00pm, enquiries to Iris 15 December - Christmas Presents followed by 0420 869 538 8269 2148. Happy Half Hour. Wed 24, Mt Lofty Summit to Piccadilly, Colin Books are suggested by group members, and No Meeting in January 8449 7695 are available in the Public Libraries system. 16th February - TBA Mon 29, Marino Rocks to Brighton, Jennifer Friday, December 1: Last day in the dynamite 8276 6484 factory Annah Faulkner and All the light we cannot CYCLING GROUP C walks for December – duration about 3-4 Our aim is to encourage people to enjoy see Anthony Doerr. hours. the benefits of cycling together, and good December: Bring something to eat and choose Tue 5, Belair NP, Rodney 8278 6280 companionship. There is a plethora of rider your favourite from this year’s list. Sun 17, Cut off 28°. C+. Cleland, Aini 8379 age, experience and bike quality among group BUSHWALKING 7584 members and research shows cycling keeps the Fri 22, Parklands, Chris 0418 856 332 Chris Bushell from ARPA Bushwalkers was brain active Thu 28, Hawthorndene & Coromandel Valley, Jill a guest speaker at the Launch of the Terry Rides start at 10.00 a.m. unless otherwise indicated 8278 8735 Lavender Churchill Fellowship several weeks on Wednesdays and are at a comfortable pace for – duration about 3-4 hours. ago and was enthusiastic that all ARPA C Walks for January all. They include a coffee stop at a convenient Mon 1, Cut off 28°. Little Para River, Pat 0438 Walkers should know of the proposal to have location. Each alternate Wednesday ride is 762 119 a Fellowship in memory of Terry and his decided on the day. Riders meet at the Torrens Sat 6 , Bridgewater to Aldgate, Helen 8295 4320 considerable work in the development of the Lake Kiosk adjacent to the par-3 Golf Course Thu 11, Port Willinga, Chris 8295 5822 Heysen, Lavender Federation and other trails off War Memorial Drive. The challenge for each Tue 16, River Torrens, Lockleys, Coralie 8298 throughout our state. See article on page 7. ride varies but Kiosk rides are always easy. There are more details of the rides on the group website

ARPA News December / January 2018 © - Page 16 Activities http://arpacycling.wixsite.com/cycling GOLF - 9 HOLE Wednesday, 13 December - Lunch 12.30 at Ride Coordinators: Phil: 0408 841 141 Why not come and join us for social golf every Marryatville Hotel, 239 Kensington Road, Lee: 7127 9352, mob. 0417811604 Wednesday at Regency Park. We meet at 8am Kensington. Bookngs contact Ngaire on 8242 Ride program for January to March. (See the and tee off at 8.30am followed by coffee in the 7560 ARPA website for more details). Tavern afterwards. Cost is a very reasonable $12. Tuesday, February 6 Lunch 12.30 at West 3 January 2018 - Dry Creek Trail For more information on 9 Hole (or 18 Hole) Beach Surf Club, Cnr. Seaview and West Beach Dry Creek, Golden Grove and return. Easy to Golf contact us via email at Rd West Beach Bookings contact Ngaire 8242 moderate terrain, best for hybrids. Meet in the [email protected] and we will respond 7460 carpark of the Stockade Botanical Park. Karl Ph: asap. If you do not have email our phone contact Wednesday, February 21 Dinner 6.30 venue to 0424 847 174 is via Coordinator Wayne on be advised. Bookings and enquiries to Roma 10 January 2018 - Decide on the day. Meet at the 0418 818 172. on 8272 2305 Torrens Lake Kiosk adjacent to the par-3 Golf Friday, 2 March Lunch 12.30 at The Gully GOLF - PAR 3 Course off War Memorial Drive. (Prev known as Tea Tree Gully Hotel) 1349 We play various Par 3 courses across 17 January 2018 - Northern Suburbs circuit North East Road Tea Tree Gully Bookings Adelaide. Join us for a nice social day out Meet at the Salisbury Interchange at 10.00 a.m. contact Ngaire 8242 7460 with exercise and good company. Contact Timed to avoid the three cornered jacks. Marg Bookings essential for all events and please us via Coordinator Bill on 8272 3016. and Rob Ph: 0439947291 24 January 2018 - remember to wear your ARPA Badge Decide on the day. Meet at the Torrens Lake LAWN BOWLS SUNDAY LUNCHES Kiosk. This is a new group. All members are Please wear your ARPA name badge at 31 January 2018 - Balhannah Broadside. Meet welcome to come and try whatever your luncheons. 10am at the Balhannah Oval. All bitumen roads level of experience. Beginners are taught by Merry Christmas and love and laughter everyone with some hills, about 40kms. Tony Ph: 8271 experienced Club members. We play weekly on in 2018. We kick off 2018 on: 4782 Thursday afternoons from 1pm at Trinity February 25th at Esplanade Hotel, Brighton. 7 February 2018 - Decide on the day. Meet at the Gardens Bowls Club, 30 Canterbury Avenue, Numbers please by 17th February. Torrens Lake Kiosk. Bring sunscreen, hat, flat shoes (no heels), Joan (Coordinator) 8331 0114 14 February 2018 - Willunga Hill & Range Rd uniform/whites not required. No meeting East. Meet at McLaren Vale or ride from Seaford. if temp 35 degrees or above. Enquiries or Up Willunga Hill, east along Range Rd then more information from David on 0417 822 zoom down into McLaren Flat Not as hard as 560 or email: [email protected] Don’t have an ARPA badge? you may imagine. Ann Ph: 0438558941 21 February 2018 - Decide on the day. Meet at PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP Contact the ARPA Office on8211 the Torrens Lake Kiosk. Our emphasis is on getting out and about taking 9711 Tuesday to Friday 10am - 4pm. 28 February 2018 - Belair to City via Flinders photos of various subjects and socialising after Uni. Meet at the Adelaide Railway Station to with a coffee or lunch. See ARPA web site Normal badge (credit card style catch the 9.33 to Belair or be at Belair Railway (www.arpaactiveover50s.com.au) to see samples Station at 10.00. Ride to flinders Uni. then back of our photos and our program. We also have with hook pin) - $5 includes postage. to the weir. Jo Ph: 0432429922 occasional meetings to discuss our craft and Delivery time one week or less. Include 7 March 2018 - Decide on the day. Meet at the exchange ideas. a lanyard for this badge - total cost: Torrens Lake Kiosk. Contact: Doug - $8.50 (badge + lanyard + postage). 14 March 2018 - Outer Harbour [email protected] Train to Outer Harbour. Ride through the We can now offer advice for inexperienced Lanyard alone - $5 (includes postage) wetlands and the port. photographers with camera settings, meanings 21 March 2018 - Decide on the day. Meet at the of aperture, shutter priority, ISO etc., plus some Blue plate badge (with hook pin) - $12 Torrens Lake Kiosk. basic editing of the image - please contact Milan includes postage. Note: this is an ordered - Anstey’s Hill Loop at [email protected] 28 March 2018 item with delivery time 2-3 weeks. Meet at the carpark opposite the Highbury Hotel January - No meeting. Contact Milan at Lower North East Rd. Anstey’s Hill, Paracombe, [email protected] Gorge Rd to Athelstone. Good for the heart. Never look back unless you are planning on Grant Ph: 0487010995. PLEASURE FISHING going that way. March 18-25th Southern Ocean Park, Beachport. FOUR WHEEL DRIVE April 29th - May 6th Point Turton Y P Henry David Thoreau 1817 - 1862 For general information on the 4 Wheel If you plan to come on a trip, please book direct. Drive Group contact Coordinator Keith on Mention that you are with the ARPA Fishing [email protected] or 8260 3230. Group and let us know that you are coming. For Your ARPA Membership renewal See also our webpage at http://users.tpg.com. further details contact Paul & Jeanette 0429 678 can be paid on-line via ARPA’s secure au/arpa4wd/ 536. Rae 8295 5361 or email: website portal at Victorian High Country proposed trip: 6 to 8 [email protected] www.arpaactiveover50s.com.au days, Mansfield to Corryong, March/April 2018. Expressions of interest to Pat or Beryl (0407 276 SOCIAL CLUB Click on Online Shop and select 158). Thursday, December 7 train trip to Seaford Membership Renewal Info on other trips and social days for 2018 in followed by lunch at Seaford Hotel. Details Cards accepted: Visa, Mastercard, next ARPA News. and bookings contact Marie on 0478 123 618 or American Express email [email protected]

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