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CEMENT MANAGER
RETIRES
Thirty Years With
Adelaide Company
After 30 years service—engineer
for six and manager for the past
25—Mr. E. J. Pickett will retire
today from the Adelaide Cement
Company. New born,
Pickett gained his early experi
ence with the Milburn Lime and
Cement Company. Dunedin. The
Adelaide Cement Company en
gaged him in New Zealand In 1914
to dismantle a small plant there
and bring it to Adelaide to act as
a pilot to test out South Austra
lian materials for cement making
at Birkenhead.
A year later the company intro
duced another rotary kiln because
of the increased demand for
cement. Then followed the pur
chase from England of two large
mills, driven by two 250 h.p.
motors, and a rotary kiln to turn
out 100 tons a day.
In 1927 Mr. Pickett was sent
round the world to inspect plants
and advise whether the company
should continue on the dry pro
cess or change over to the wet.
Plans were drawn up for a new
wet olant on the eve of the de
pression, but they have not ma
terialised until now.
During Mr. Pickett's term with
the company a mechanised plant
installed at Klein's Point. Yorke
Peninsula, has made that quarry
one of the most up to date in Aus
tralia, turning out 400 tons a day.
with 12 men engaged. The crushed
limestone is loaded by means of a
conveyor belt on to barges at the
rate of 300 tons an hour, towed to
Birkenhead in barges, and landed
in the cement works on an aerial
ropeway.
Employes of the company will
say rarewell to Mr. Pickett today.
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