Roderick Butler interviewed by Rob Willis for the Voices of the bush oral history project [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2366730
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Butler, Rod, 1916-, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research and personal copies; written permission required for public use during the lifetime of the interviewee.
- Description:
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- 2001
- 3 digital audio tapes (ca. 150 min.)
- Series:
- Voices of the bush oral history project
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Roderick Butler, retired fisherman, talks about his life and recites poems. Born 1916 in Dubbo, N.S.W., he recalls his family background and early years; a story about Ben Hall, the bushranger from his father; his mother's interest in Irish poetry; his earliest memories of schooling; travelling around the bush about 1926; memories of an Aboriginal shearer; early shearing days; shearing stories; recreation at the shearing sheds; working during the Depression;finishing school at Mudgee; his career in the Air Force; types of communication equipment used and planes available; being in Palestine with the Air Force; job as a wireless operator; his war service; Middle East campaign; being transferred to Greece; ill health during the war; his aerodrome control duties; returning to Australia, working as an instructor; leaving the Air Force in 1947.
Butler recalls being one of the pioneers in commercial fishing in the prawn industry of New South Wales; the technique of trawling for prawns and the area covered; government & conservationist controls imposed on the industry; selling through the Sydney Markets; forming a Co-operative with other local commercial fishermen at Evans Heads, N.S.W.; costs incurred and price controls on produce.
- Partial contents:
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- TAPE 1 Recitation: fragment of a poem (unidentified) Singing: fragment of an unidentified poem. Recitation: Irish poem (unidentified) Synposis: Papa's letter. TAPE 2 Singing: fragment of an Army song about Bombay
- Bless them all.
- Notes:
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- Recorded with Olya Willis.
- Recorded on Jan. 12, 2001 at St. Huberts Island, N.S.W.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (4 p.)
- Subject:
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- Butler, Rod, 1916- -- Interviews
- Fishers -- New South Wales -- Interviews
- Sheep-shearing -- New South Wales -- Anecdotes
- Shrimp industry -- New South Wales -- History
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Middle East -- Personal narratives, Australian
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Greece -- Personal narratives, Australian
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- Published status:
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- Creation date:
- 2001
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