Stu's Stories as at 2024

Contents 3
Introduction 5
Stuart Leon Oliver - A Brief History 6
- Our Farm 12
- Our First Boat 13
- Our Yachts and Ski Boat 15
A Few Remembered Anecdotes About My Life 17
Growing Up During World War II 21
Back to Teenage Years 27
A Little of My Time in New Guinea 31
Some Cartoons Depicting Me in Later Life 40
The Brief History of an Old Polio - Me! 42
Why I Consider Myself Lucky 48
My Part in the Abolition of "The White Australia Policy" 51
So School Sucks! 59
My Two "Dreams" 67
Story of a "Pig-Headed So-and-So!" - Me! 70
My Mormon Story 72
My Interaction with Kids 75
"The Best Advice I've Ever Been Given!" 79
Our Influence on the Printing Trade in Perth, WA 81
Order of the Driveway Blockader 84
Some of my Sketches that Survived for over 70 Years (to date, 2020) 85
Stories of Influential Forebears 93
- The Intriguing Story of Captain John Oliver 94
- Casy Island 106
- The Story of Moose 111
- James Sneddon 114
- Charles Thomas Hewett 116
- James McGrath 122
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