Bruce Hewitt interviewed by Karen George in the Apples and pears oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4739673
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Hewitt, Bruce, 1928-, 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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- 2009
- 2 sound files (ca. 154 min.)
- Series:
- Apples and pears oral history project.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Online.
- Summary:
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Bruce Hewitt speaks about his parents and his family's farming background; his father's involvement with the apple industry; his father's first apple and pear property; going to Launceston High School; working on his father's orchards; fertilising and pest control; apple thinning; the introduction of sod culture; new apple varieties; grafting; changes to export after WWII; income from export and the role of the agent; apple picking; apple grading; apple wrapping, boxing and packing; making apple boxes locally; the use of organo-phosphate chemicals; his post-war training in forestry; working for Forestry; working for the Cooperative managing a packing shed and then buying fruit; his own farming property; his wife and marriage; developing his own property; cultivating and spraying; the use of irrigation; picking and pruning; meeting the demands and regulations for apple growing.
Hewitt talks about Agricultural Department Advisors; Field Days; the State Fruit Board; the Apple and Pear Growers Committee; his election to the State Fruit Board; his interest in industry politics; payment of compulsory levies and insurance; impact of hail; hail rockets; the Tree Pull scheme; declines in export; growers leaving the industry; finding new markets; Controlled Atmosphere storage; bulk handling; Presidency of Apple and Pear Growers Federation (1979); state marketing system; changes to the apple industry in marketing and packing; relations between Tasmanian growers; Apple Industry annual conferences; Australian Horticultural Conferences; his retirement and leaving his property; his feelings about life on the apple orchard; the future of the industry in Tamar Valley; the threat of Fire Blight; the impact of the Suez Canal crisis on apple exports.
- Notes:
- Recorded on 30 November 2009 at Launceston, Tas.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (7 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Fruit growers
- Other authors/contributors:
- George, Karen, 1962-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Apples and pears oral history project.
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- Until 2079 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2009
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