02172cjd a2200421 a 4500001000800000005001700008007001400025008004100039019001200080033001300092035001200105035001600117035001200133040001700145042000900162043001200171100003200183245008600215260001000301300007000311306001100381500003300392500003100425500006200456500006800518500014800586506009500734518005800829520054800887520002501435651004101460651003901501651004801540700003701588773005401625830003801679984003301717144883020130513083721.0stuosncmajnnn911219s1986 xx u 1 neng d1 a85680681 a19860525 91729715 9abn91383874 a1448830 aANL:OcANL:O aanuc au-at-ne1 aCooper, George,d1907-4ive10aGeorge Cooper talks and recitesh[sound recording]/c[Interviewer: John Meredith] c1986. a3 tape reels (ca. 57 min.) :b7 1/2 ips, 2 track, stereo ;c7 in. a005700 aConversation and recitation. aLending copy: 3 cassettes. aPreservation, working duplicate and cassette copies made. aRecorded outdoors in wind and beneath power transmission lines. aReels 179 to 196 were recorded from 25 to 30 May 1986 as part of a project to record the oral history of the Wollombi Valley farming community. aAccess open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use.  aRecorded at Wollombi, New South Wales on 25 May 1986. aCooper talks about his memories of World War II; family background; flour mill; blacksmithing; self-sufficiency of farmers; the Depression; rabbit plague; 1949 flood; cattle duffing; Aboriginals in area; bullock teams; making bullock yokes; cutting railway sleepers; recitation of his own poems: The Last Roundup; The Drought; We Are Australian Now; Land of the Kangaroo, plus story; Down at Paulie's Pub, plus story; music for dances; picnic races; navvies on the railway line; 1902 drought; Yellow Billy, the bushranger; wreck of the Dunbar. aFolkloric recording. 0aWollombi Region (N.S.W.)xAnecdotes. 0aWollombi Region (N.S.W.)xHistory. 0aWollombi Region (N.S.W.)xRural conditions.1 aMeredith, John,d1920-2001.4ivr0 tJohn Meredith folklore collectionw(AuCNL)2687559 0aJohn Meredith folklore collection a2451cORAL TRC 2222/R180-182