Tom Gregory interviewed by Matthew Higgins in the Namadgi oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 682441
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Gregory, Tom, 1922-1990, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research and personal copies, written permission from Kosciuszko Huts Association required for public use.
- Description:
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- 13 June 1990
- 4 sound tape reels (ca. 126 min.) ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Namadgi oral history project.
- Summary:
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Mr Gregory speaks of his family background; the family's move to Hill Station and Kambah; his education at Tuggeranong Public School; his father's work as a ranger; becoming Cotter catchment ranger; reasons for the ban on grazing in the Cotter catchment; Cotter House; Smith's Hut near the Cotter bridge; De Salis Hut; renovations of Cotter House; construction of Cotter Ranger's House; firetrail from Orroral via Eighty Acres; isolation of the job; relationships with stockmen; use of packhorses; bridges; migration of stock through the Cotter; food supply; history of Cotter House; mining shafts near the old Cotter House and at Rotten Swamp; Jack Maxwell; Max Oldfield and the keg of beer; ski hut west of Stockyard Gap; brumby trapping methods; weather conditions; Jack Silk; Garrett Cotter's and Bill Oldfield's huts; Rowley Robertson; dingoes; beginning of Corin Dam; leaving the Cotter.
- Notes:
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- Accompanied by: Namadgi Oral History Project final report: Voices from the hills.
- Commissioned by the Kosciusko Huts Association.
- Recorded at Ainslie, Canberra.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (7 p.).
- Subject:
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