Effie Ray interviewed by Joanna Penglase in the Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5016988
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Ray, Effie, 1929-2011, interviewee
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 2010
- 4 sound files (ca. 240 min.)
- Series:
- Forgotten Australians and Former Child Migrants oral history project.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- Summary:
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Effie Ray talks about: her family and husband's family; the Depression; Moulamein Station; early employment and husband's employment; memories of wartime; marriage and children; illness; changes in Hay during her lifetime; fostering and adoption; Catholicism; the internment camp; employment at the Hay Institution for Girls (1967-73) as an instructor; Child Welfare Department; institutional routine; regimentation and repetitive work; treatment of the girls; talking being prohibited; pay rates; staff roles; child welfare course at the University of N.S.W.; the age of girls; punishments; complaints made to the Department; staff/inmate relations; male/female staff relations; Parramatta institution; weekly doctor's visit and medical treatment; record keeping; institution buildings; official inquiry and closure; visits by nuns and clergy; Hay reunion (2004); Ormond Training School; Sydney; Parramatta Girls' Training School; Internment camp; Manchester Unity International Order of Oddfellows; attitudes to women; children's rights; Hay Shire Council; community work in Hay; Parents and Friends of St. Marys; Gaol committee; Red Cross; Country Womens Association; Home and Community Care.
- Notes:
- Recorded on 28 and 29 November 2010 in Hay, N.S.W.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (11 p.) and corrected transcript available (typescript, 164 leaves)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Penglase, Joanna, interviewer
- Related Records:
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- Until 2080 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2010
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