MANUSCRIPT
When can you start? (chapter 1-10)
- Date
- 1995-2002
- Reference
- MS-Papers-8493-1
- Description
`When can you start?', an autobiography of Fry's life up until the 1960s describing his childhood, education, war service and employment as a journalist for the Southern Cross newspaper and the New Zealand Listener and editorial work for A H & A W Reed.
Chapter 1 begins with Fry arriving in Wellington from Christchurch in 1948 and he describes his experiences working as a journalist for the Southern Cross newspaper and gives his impressions of Wellington, including being a student at Victoria University College in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He then reverts back to his childhood, describing growing up in Wallsend and Christchurch, attending Papanui Technical College and being apprenticed as an electrician. Chapter 10 ends in 1944 when Fry enrolled in the Royal Navy 21st Fleet Airm draft to be trained in England. Names referred to in the text are entered in the name index.
Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Physical Description: Typescript
- Access restrictions
- No access restrictions
- Part of
- Fry, Alexander Sydney, 1926-2006: Papers
- Format
- 1 folder(s), Manuscripts, Typescript
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