Alec McLean interviewed by Alex Hood in the Alex Hood collection of folkloric recordings [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3695382
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- McLean, Alec, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, written permission required from collector for personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1970
- 1 sound tape reel (ca. 90 min.)
- Series:
- Alex Hood collection of folkloric recordings.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Alex McLean speaks about the travelling bullock team; Bargo, haulage with bullocks; timber mill; Throsby Estate; making own butter; his people 'Parker and Wallaces'; family being first to send milk from Mona Vale to Sydney; methods of working; butter prices (1910, 1909 & 1911); hardwood at the mill; wages working 48 hour week; tractors replacing teams; motor lorries came (1920); using bullocks for logging; steam driven saws; waltzing competition; kerosene case; spoons tapping case; square dances; Professor Vincent; trapping rabbits earning money; his mother playing English concertina; Tim McMahon; timber in New Guinea, comparisons to timber in Australia; lease in New Guinea for return soldiers; descriptions of cutting timber; tales of swindlers; rain forest Clinky Pine; Ply industry; Bulolo gold dredging, Papua New Guinea; mills and use of New Guinea timber; types of timber in New Guinea, pine, hardwoods; maple sold as cedar in Australia; use of timber; chip mills and knowledge by the 'native'; Bulolo, details of living; rationing began after war; goldfields; food and liquor deducted from wages monthly; Yankee bones; details of gold locations; methods of employment, age limitations; Polygamy; weightlifting; football; life on Kau-Kau; how the trade store functioned; similarities with Aborigines; harm by do-gooders.
- Partial contents:
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- Tells stories about: Working natives
- reference to Stringbark & Greenhide song.
- Notes:
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- Recorded in 1970 at Gerard & Louise Haveke's, Kenthurst, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Summary (6 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Bullockies
- Other authors/contributors:
- Hood, Alex, 1935-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Alex Hood collection of folkloric recordings.
This collection contains 14 records. - Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2040 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1970
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