Oliver of Otterburn in Adelaide

Here I am in Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia, and a very
fine place it is indeed.

Firstly I was taken by tram to the bayside suburb of Glenelg. It was
here in 1836 that the founding settlers from Britain landed to begin
the independent colony of South Australia.

There would be no convict stain in this colony, only freeborn Britons need apply.

South Australians are very proud of their heritage and a striking monument stands in Glenelg to commemorate the founding fathers.

Then, next I went to a prominent hill overlooking the city and there

is another significant statue.
Colonel William Light is pointing to his vision of a well planned orderly city that will arise before him.That has actually happened.

Adelaide is the most sensibly civilized city in Australia.

A sensible size of about a million people, live in a sensibly planned city, on a sensible piece of flat ground, nicely situated between the sea and the hills.

Of course it wasn’t easy to build a civilised city from nothing and much hard work was needed.

In Adelaide today there are many fine mansions built by citizens who found great prosperity in the colony.
It must be said that many of them became rich by grazing sheep on large properties.

I wonder why it wasn’t the sheep that became rich?

And there is another kind of prosperity.

I had a long talk with a very cheerful gentleman.
He came from Greece in 1952, one of many who migrated to Australia after the World War II had caused so much misery in Europe.
He has worked hard and brought up a fine family.
His name is ‘John’, that is his Aussie name because his real Greek name has too many letters.

He is a happy man.