Stan Luthwaite interviewed by Rob Willis for the Voices of the bush oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2067176
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Luthwaite, Stan, 1911-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
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- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2000
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 65 min)
- Series:
- Voices of the bush oral history project.
- Summary:
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Stan Luthwaite, was born at Kempsey, N.S.W. He is a retired bullock driver who started working with his father's team at aged 5. He recalls father's and mother's background; working mill logs; working the bullocks; Depression times, cutting timber, cost of sleepers; names places where he snigged, loading logs onto a boat at Kempsey; bullock driving; traces a day's work; Depression years, problems with bullock driving; yoking process; bullock teams; tailers; teaching himself to use the broadaxe with father's guidance; cutting sleepers; move to Queensland; working as a banana chipper; working for the forestry; wood chopping competitions.
- Notes:
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- Recorded with Olya Willis.
- Recorded on May 21, 2000 at Kempsey, N.S.W.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-217433421
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- Created/Published Date is Before 1955
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- Creation date:
- 1936
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