Alby Mundy interviewed by Bruce Simpson and Bill Gammage in the Drovers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3424251
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Mundy, Alby, 1927-, 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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- 2005
- 1 digital audio tape (ca. 60 min.)
- Series:
- Drovers oral history project.
- Summary:
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Alby Mundy, born in Port Lincoln, S. Aust. talks about his family of fishermen; his stay in a Catholic orphanage in Adelaide after parents' separation; a variety of employment before returning to fishing with his father; Highlands Fish Factory (Port Lincoln); ringing on Curtin Springs Station, NT.; his marriage; living conditions on Curtin Springs Station; camping out; the station brand; the quality and background of horses on Curtin Springs and Erldunda stations, supplying the Indian remount market; breeding janets and mules, the characteristics of mules; the numbers of horses for use in stock camp; shoeing, hazards; humane horse breaking methods; horse handling and maintenance; horse breeds; the transition from horses to motorbikes, helicopter mustering; his stock whip; stories of people impaled by cattle in the yard; cattle work; the use of camels to draw a wagon; story of Billy Little's camels escaping; wild camel numbers, culling, mustering for sale; Curtin Springs camels; lifespan and intelligence; water supply on Curtin Springs, water pumping, annual rainfall; the water supply on Erldunda Station; cattle breeds; stock feed on the station; the reasons for the sale of Curtin Springs.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 3 April, 2005 at Alice Springs, N.T.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-221277239
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (3 p.) and corrected transcript (typescript, 65 leaves)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Stockmen
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This belongs to the Drovers oral history project.
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- Creation date:
- 2005
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