By 1969 Boral's business had grown and diversified to such an extent that management felt that the staff needed to be better educated about the Group's activities. To facilitate this an independent company was contracted to produce a staff magazine, The Boral Book. The second edition of this staff magazine opened with the following:         Q. Which organisation do you know that's just as much at home making bricks as it is refining petrol, laying runways, producing concrete, operating container shipping piping gas, working quarries, among other things? A. Your organisation! That's the simple answer - the company you work for. Because your company is one of the many in the Boral Group, and that means you've got a stake in something big. We think you're as big as any part of the Group, because you're the people who make it all possible. There's more about you and us inside. Come on in.           A spread from The Boral Book, 1969.     The Boral Book contained various articles on companies that were part of the Boral Group and staff profiles, including a piece on Queensland Oil Refineries' bitumen depot at Bundaberg:         Admittedly it's got the advantage of being sited where it is. That stretch of the Burnett River is part of the King's Cup course rowed over recently in the regatta up that way, and the tropical greenery helps soften the lines of the installation a good deal. But it's still a bitumen depot, and the real reason why it looks so good, why its all silver and clean black and immaculate white is Ted Stopford, the manager.         There seems to be something about service in the Navy which stamps itself on a man, and when the man's had thirteen years in the service and come out of it a chief petty officer, the marks are unmistakable. They include a liking for orderliness, a capacity for getting on with people and a strong desire to be doing something useful.   Tom Murray (1969 annual report).     On 1 March 1969 Tom Murray died while still in office as a director. He had been chairman of Boral for twenty years, until 1967. The obituary in the 1969 annual report said of Murray, 'His period as chairman covered an era of tremendous growth, during which his guidance and advice proved invaluable'. In March 1969, Boral's construction materials division greeted with enthusiasm the Commonwealth--States Roads Agreement, a Federal government initiative to improve Australia's roads. Prime Minister John Gorton's official statement said in part: 'The Commonwealth government proposes to provide $1252 million over the next five years toward the cost of roads in the States. An increase of over half a billon dollars or 67 per cent is, we think, a very generous one and one that must considerably improve the standards of roads in this country over these five years.'       »»