Time

Subject

Proper names

Tape 1, Side A

0:30

Born 3.1.1938; life on grandfather’s farm; interest in agriculture; primary school education in ‘rural’ Adelaide; attending Roseworthy College

Warnarka; Murray Mallee; Hope Valley; Roseworthy; Bishop Gleeson

3:25

Working on stations, properties and farms from 1957; experiences at Roseworthy – livestock; salesman for Southern Cross Machinery; joining Agriculture Department; marriage in 1970

Wilcannia; Wentworth; South East; WA; Roseworthy; Adelaide

12:25

Joined the Department in 1966; medic breeding; herd improvement; marriage and move to Nuriootpa; field work

Northfield; ICARDA; John Doulette; Jamestown; Andrew Michelmore; Rob; Murray Mathieson; Wanbi; Yorke Peninsula

17:30

Interaction with staff; conferences; workshops; visits from seniors; attitude towards the job

Paul Heap; Mathieson; Ted Higgs; Jon Lamb; GRDC; Peter Magarey; Jack Blencoe; WA; Jamestown; Gavin Young; Peter Marks; Nuriootpa; Barossa; Clare

23:30

Advising farmers; work with agronomists and soils people; relations with farmers; appreciation of the Department

26:20

Interaction with local community; nature of farming; area of work; nature of work colleagues

Jamestown; Nuriootpa; Clare; Mallala; Mid North; Windsor; Dublin; Young; Marks; Michelmore; Bill Matheson; Chris Rudd; Keith Bicknell; Murray Bridge; Alan Hicks; Loxton; southern Mallee; Pinnaroo

Tape 1, Side B

0:10

Departmental office and house at Lameroo, 1971–74; work in the field; learning from farmers; using the Agricultural Bureau

Pinnaroo; southern Mallee; Lameroo; Roseworthy; Bicknell; Murray Bridge; Jim Pocock; Karoonda; Geranium; Coonalpyn; Coomandook

7:25

Member of the Rural Youth

Roseworthy

7:40

Lameroo office; family; other departmental offices; work in Lameroo district; livestock; drought

Lameroo; Michelmore; Nuriootpa; Arthur Tideman; Val Dillon; Murray Bridge; Loxton; Kadina; Minlaton; Victor Harbor; Wudinna; Lock; central Eyre Peninsula; Dave Yeo; Adelaide; Warwick Hack

11:45

Lameroo office work and connection with head office; workshops; statewide meetings

Bicknell; Alan Dubé; Glyn Webber; Jack McCaullife; Loxton; Murray Bridge; Adelaide

14:30

Nature of farming at Lameroo;

15:30

Cereals cyst nematode and stem-rust problems

Waite; Lameroo; northern Mallee; Karoonda

19:15

Herbicide/fungicide controls; weed problems – soursobs, ryegrass, grass weeds

Lameroo; Mallee; Mid North; Yorke Peninsula

26:00

Bushfires

Kadina; Yorke Peninsula; Lameroo

Tape 2, Side A

0:15

Lameroo experiences – drought, mice plague; Libyan project, 1974

Lameroo; Karoonda; McAuliffe; Noel Matts; Yorke Peninsula; Kadina; Libya

3:40

Libyan project

Henry Day; Sally Day; Val Dillon; Bicknell; Kadina; England

9:20

Overseas projects; Dillon family and history

Carter; Algeria; Tunisia; Lands Department; Kangaroo Island; Waite; Simon Dillon; Libya; Tobruk; Gallipoli

12:15

Benefits personally from overseas experience

Lex Walker; Peter Barrow; Ellie Walker; England; Libya; Benghazi

15:40

Benefits for agriculture from overseas work

South Australian Seed Growers; Libya; Bashir Jodah; Horwood Bagshaw; Shearers; Don Dunstan; Tunisia; Egypt

19:45

International agronomy conferences; farm project

Tunisia; Middle East; Baghdad; Iraq; Libya; Iran; Don Plowman; Peter Carr; Ken Holden

23:25

Perceptions in the Department about overseas work

Yorke Peninsula; Libya; Gavin Young

26:05

Understanding of Australian agriculture; overseas holidays

Bicknell; Switzerland; Austria; Tunisia; Cyprus; England

28:55

Return to South Australia; family to UK

Dillon children; Val Dillon; England; Rome

Tape 3, Side A

0:35

Return to the Department; Agriculture Bureau system; region covered

Yorke Peninsula; Yorketown; Warooka; Weavers; Balaklava; Pt Broughton

3:55

Preparation of ‘The Gospel according to Dillon’; Bureau system and meetings

Yorke Peninsula

8:35

Agriculture Bureau system

Webber; Matts; Harry Nash

10:30

Cereal cyst nematode treatment

Albert Rovira

12:25

Trial and error research into plant diseases; rust outbreaks

Mathieson; Northfield; Rovira; CSIRO; Harold Paddock; Alf ?Pascobiak

16:35

Work activities as Officer-in-Charge at Kadina; staff, including soils; management style

Nash; Adelaide; Val Dillon; John Allen; Nuriootpa; Jamestown; Clare; Yorke Peninsula; Mid North; Chris Rudd

20:40

Regionalisation; Senior Agronomist

Holden; Peter Marrett; Naracoorte; Michelmore; Adelaide

24:15

Officer-in-Charge work; young trainees

Chris McDonough; Chris Shied; Keith

26:10

Central Region

Jamestown; Clare; Nuriootpa; Adelaide Hills; Victor Harbor?; Nuriootpa;

27:40

Monthly meetings

Adelaide; Ron Webber; Webber

28:45

Impact of regionalisation

Shied

30:30

Departmental network

31:30

Maintaining research interests; meetings; paperwork

Tape 3, Side B

0:15

Office work; female staff

Lyn Chapman; SARDI

2:20

Livestock officer

Kadina; Shied; Keith

3:40

Modern technology – duplicators, mobile phones, computers – and impact on farm techniques and work

Warooka; Val Dillon

8:25

Communicating information to farmers

12:15

Farmers adopting modern communications

Yorke Peninsula

15:10

Role of the Extension Officer’s wife

Val Dillon; Lameroo

18:20

Department recognising the role of women

19:30

Formal and informal visits by senior staff, Ministers, Premier, politicians

Kadina; Jim McColl; Lynn Arnold; John Bannon; [Angela] Bannon; Yorke Peninsula; Ardrossan; Dale Baker; John Meier; South East; State Bank

26:45

Field days; community contribution

Yorke Peninsula; Paskeville

29:50

Experimental plots for field days

Paskeville