[Woomera]

Rules and Regulations of Woomera Welfare Club Incorporated [cover title]

Woomera, Woomera Welfare Club (printed in Whyalla by the 'Whyalla News'), [1948].

Octavo, [20] pages including the covers (last page blank); loosely inserted is a smaller sheet of amendments to five rules made 'at the General Meeting held on 24/3/50'.

Title-wrappers; trifling signs of age; an excellent copy.

Rule 2: 'The Club is situated at Long Range Weapons Experimental Area, Woomera in the State of South Australia', about 490 kilometres north of Adelaide. Woomera township was established in 1947 to house and service the personnel involved in the Anglo-Australian Joint Project (for once, it is rocket science). Curiously, the standard work on all things Woomera, Peter Morton's 'Fire across the Desert' (1989, and later reprints) fails to mention the Woomera Welfare Club (at least, we have failed to find mention of it either in the index or the section on 'Clubs, Societies and the Churches'). Fortunately, an article in the Adelaide newspaper, 'The Mail' (13 January 1951), goes into some detail about its early history, not least, that the decision to form Woomera Welfare Club Incorporated was made in April 1948. Hugh Wallis Martin of Adelaide is recorded as 'Solicitor for the said club' at the foot of the front cover.

Item #112105

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