Roy Neville interviewed by Jan Adams and Margaret Neale for the Christmas Island life story oral history project
- Bib ID:
- 2769708
- Format:
- Manuscript
- Author:
- Neville, Roy, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Written permission from Margaret Neale, required for research and public use.
- Description:
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- 1986 Sept. 1
- 1 Transcript.
- Series:
- Christmas Island life story oral history project.
- Summary:
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Neville speaks about moving from Nauru to Christmas Island; John Paris; changes after he took over as manager; acting as District Officer; opium trade on the island; food rations; industrial action; joss houses; Chinese seamstresses (prostitutes); Chinese customs; takeover of island administration by the Australian government; the hospital; and hygiene.
- Biography/History:
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Neville was British Phosphate Commission engineer and Island Manager, 1949 to 1971.
- Notes:
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- Transcript only.
- Part of a collection related to the social history of Christmas Island.
- Recorded in Melbourne, Victoria on 1 September 1986.
- Published in: We were the Christmas Islanders : reminiscences and the recollections of the people of an isolated island, the Australian Territory of Christmas Island, Indian Ocean / Margaret Neale assisted by Jan Adams. Chapman, A.C.T.: B. Neale, 1988.
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This belongs to the Christmas Island life story oral history project.
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1986
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