Thomas Shanahan interviewed by Suzanne Walker [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2081039
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Shanahan, Thomas, 1892-1979, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1974
- 2 tape reels (ca. 331 min.) : 1 7/8 ips ; 5 in.
- Summary:
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Shanahan, former accountant, hotelier and Chairperson, Winton Shire Council, describes his family background & early life, Gympie, Qld; clerk, Atherton-Evelyn railway construction; camp living conditions; Atherton Chinese; timber supplies; axemen incl. Ned Ward, son of Captain Thunderbolt; locality names; fellow workers, incl. Ted Theodore; Mackay-Rockhampton link; Arthur Fadden; other North Queensland towns; Homestead sawmill; Dimbulah-Mt Mulligan line; Afghans; Buckingham Downs Station; growth of camps; labour problems; correspondence study; winding down projects; his wedding; presentation of accounts to Parliament; Mt Cuthbert mine; Rollingstone; Cloncurry accountancy practice; Qantas history; Winton aerodrome; American interest in Mt Isa; strikes on Townsville-Ingham line; Great Northern Hotel, Townsville; drought, Winton Region; Winton Shire Council.
Shanahan discusses the Stock Routes Improvement Boards, Noogurra burr; sectarian campaign in Shire election; Qld Local Authorities Asson; conferences, Brisbane; links with other West Qld towns; Depression; feeding unemployed, North Gregory Hotel, Winton; local sport; Western Qld Local Authorities Asson; report on rehabilitation & construction, West Qld; ass'n with Joe Lyons; approaches to enter Federal Parliament; mutton dehydration works, Winton; Thomas Wood's Cobbers; Jack Lawton, overseer Dagworth Station when Paterson wrote Waltzing Matilda; visiting Dr Wood, England; effect of WW2 in West Qld; local enlistment officer; Women's Emergency League, visit to Winton by Lyndon Johnston; women of the West; oil drilling.
- Notes:
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- Recorded at Mr Shanahan's home, Norman Park, Qld on 15 and 18 January 1974.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-214955207
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Transcript (typescript, 107 leaves) and timed summary available.
- Subject:
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- Shanahan, Thomas, 1892-1979 -- Interviews
- Winton (Qld. : Shire) Council
- Accountants -- Queensland -- Interviews
- Hotelkeepers -- Queensland -- Interviews
- Local officals and employees -- Queensland -- Winton -- Interviews
- Railroads -- Queensland -- Design and construction -- History
- Local government -- Queensland, Western -- History
- Other authors/contributors:
- Lunney, Suzanne, interviewer
- Copyright:
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- Until 2044 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1974
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