Time

Subject

Proper names

Tape 1, Side A

0:45

Boyhood; Sandalwood Primary School; parent’s work; early work on farm; Debt Adjustment Board; attending farm sales; clearing paddocks; collecting firewood; shearing; barley; wheat; family farming background

Sandalwood; Murray Mallee; Norwood High School; Norwood; Adelaide; Farmers Union; Coonawarra; Mt Gambier

7:45

Born 13 April 1923; family

Murray Bridge

8:18

Development and future as a Mallee farmer; dairy farming; education by correspondence; employment in the dairy industry; attending Roseworthy College

Hundred of Auld; Murray Mallee; Jervois; River Murray; Tailem Bend; Roseworthy College; Muirden College; Sam Twartz

11.55

Diploma in Dairying at Roseworthy College; work for dairy company; job as Dairy Instructor

Swan Hill Co-operative Dairy Company; Victoria; New Zealand; Swan Hill; Dr McCulloch; Roseworthy

14:30

Dairy Instructor from 1955 to 1964

Roseworthy

16.20

Start and end of the course in dairying; joining Department  of Agriculture, Tasmania; artificial breeding program; involvement with SA’s Agriculture Department

Roseworthy College; Hawkesbury College; Werribee; Tasmania; Wynyard; Burnie; Smithton; Artificial Breeding Board; Launceston

19.30

Dairy herd infertility problems in SA; artificial breeding program in SA; bull-proving scheme; Artificial Breeding Board work on dairy and beef cattle; 1971 visit to examine bull proving in New Zealand; artificial insemination program for dairy and beef cattle in SA

Tasmania; Adelaide; Bill Rose; Northfield; Artificial Breeding Board; South Plympton; Northfield Research Centre; George Durney; New South Wales; Victoria; New Zealand Dairy Board; Don Mackie; Tasmania, WA, Queensland

29:40

Artificial Breeding Boards in Australia and in SA

Tasmania; Marshall Irving; Rose

30:40

Debate on the advisability and suitability of techniques

Durney

32.20

Herd testing in SA

Tape 1, Side B

0.05

Herd testing in SA; reporting results; artificial breeding program taken over by the Victorian Artificial Breeding Board; insemination procedures; success rate

Artificial Breeding Board; Northfield; Rose; New Zealand; Victoria; Peter Lovisatti; Mt Gambier; Barossa; Mt Barker; Murray Bridge; Clare

5:15

Complaints about the program

New Zealand

6:30

Size of the program; Artificial Breeding Board working with the Department; Board membership

Rose; Graham Itzerott

8:55

Postgraduate studies in agricultural extension; move to Mt Gambier; regionalisation; promoted to Chief Dairy Officer, Adelaide; retirement in 1985

University of Melbourne; Victorian Artificial Board; Mt Gambier; Struan; Adelaide; John Feagan;

12:45

Became Chief of the Division of Animal Industries

Steve Rice

13:15

Regionalisation; annual conference; meeting with officers

Mt Gambier; South East

17:25

The Department’s Rostrum program; working conditions; Herd Recording Section’s work; presentations

Tasmania; Durney; Simpson Building; Gawler Pl

23:00

Involvement with the media; publications and report writing

Mt Gambier; Adelaide; Northfield; Durney

25:05

Regulations and legislation

Tasmania; South Australia

27:30

Resigned from Tasmanian Department to re-join SA; retirement in 1985

29:25

Directors of Agriculture; McColl a lecturer when doing his postgraduate course; Ministers

Irving; McColl; Geoff Strickland; University of Melbourne; Ted Chapman; Kangaroo Island