- Bib ID:
- 2971559
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Attard, Jim, 1905-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1984 Nov. 25
- 1 sound cassette (ca. 49 min.)
- Series:
- Maltese Australian folklife and social history project.
- Summary:
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Attard speaks about his birth at Mosta, Malta, in 1905; his parents and siblings; formal education; membership of the Royal Navy; emigration to Queensland in 1922; brother at Innisfail, Qld.; boxing; death of wife; death of a son; work in the sugar industry as a cutter and mill worker; voyage to Australia on the 'Ormond' in 1922; emigration procedures in Malta in 1920s; reasons for choice of Australia as a destination; work at Innisfail and on the Kyogle, NSW rail line; industrial strike at Innisfail in 1927; Maltese clubs at Innisfail and Sydney; purchase of sugar farm at Farleigh, near Mackay, Qld. in 1927; contact with Malta; good relations with Australians.
- Notes:
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- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Uncorrected draft transcript available (typescript, 20 leaves).
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
- York, Barry, 1951-, interviewer
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- Creation date:
- 1984
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