Dave Allworth interviewed by Bruce Simpson and Bill Gammage in the Drovers oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4468816
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Allworth, Dave, 1939-, 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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- 2008
- 1 sound file (ca. 64 min.)
- Series:
- Drovers oral history project.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Online.
- Summary:
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Dave Allworth, born Sydney, N.S.W. talks about his childhood and schooling; his first job on Wyvern sheep station; working for the Vestey family on Fitzroyvale Station, mustering territory bullocks; gaining experience on Morestone Station; wild bullocks and dangerous sheep fences on Oban Station; running a camp at Kirkimbie, working with an Indigenous cook and stockmen; running a camp on Manbulloo Station, issues with Indigenous workers; mustering wild cattle; training bull kicking horses; cattle throwing methods; his first cattle droving trip; Vestey's policy on transferring men between Queensland and Northern Territory stations; working as a ringer on Helen Springs Station; breaking-in mules; Bill Bowes; his droving plant; horse breaking on Avon Downs Station; brumby shooting (Dec. 1961); droving Roper Valley bullocks; Joe Dowling; delivering bullocks to Brunette Downs; fresh meat, bush etiquette; droving Mallapunyah bullocks from Creswell to Camooweal; Viv Aspinall; droving through the Murranji; stock routes; Newcastle Waters Station, illegal butchering; droving supplies; his marriage; managing cattle properties in N.S.W.; his reasons for preferring to work with cattle rather than sheep; the impact of introduction of road trains; working for mineral exploration company; Nickel boom; retrenchment; the rewarding aspects of droving and station life; revisiting the Murranji track, the trip, landscape and maintenance of route.
- Notes:
- Recorded on August 22, 2008 at Camooweal, Qld.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (3 p.) and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 53 leaves)
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This belongs to the Drovers oral history project.
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- Creation date:
- 2008
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