In 1966, the Government changed from the Imperial system to
the metric system. This caused a lot of headaches as we went
from miles to kilometers, inches to millimeters, fahrenheit to celcius,
tons to tonns, acres to hectacres, pounds shillings and pence, to dollars
and cents, etc. This all took some getting used to as you can imagine.
I have no idea who wrote the fun poem below, and maybe you need
an Aussie sense of humour to appreciate it.

 

The Aussie Recession had been explained in simple terms by an old time farmer:
" It all started back in '66 when they changed from pounds to dollars........
that doubled me bloody overdraft.
After that they changed rain to millimeters and we haven't had an inch of rain since.
If that wasn't bad enough, they bought in celcius, and we never go over 40 degrees,
no wonder me bloody wheat wouldn't grow.
Then they changed acres to hectacres, and I ended up with only half the land I had.
By this time I'd had enough and decided to sell out.
I put the property in the agent's hands and then they changed miles to kilometers.
Now I'm too far out of town for anyone to buy the place".

 

 

 

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