Farm life - Australia - Queensland

Date: 1858-1937

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2993

Description: Selected papers from a variety of family and shipping company records, relevant to Australia and New Zealand Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 1864-1911

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2051

Description: Comprise selected papers of the Fortescue, Seymour, Lillicrap, Gidley, Kilner, Kitson, Luxton and Tanner families Other Titles - Colonial Floras Other Titles - A history of the British Army Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s).

Date: 11 May 2011

From: To the ends of the world - trans Tasman migration in the 1950s oral history project

By: Schafer, Dallas Daniel Phillip, 1931-

Reference: OHInt-0991-05

Description: Dallas Daniel Phillip Schafer, born at Toowoomba, Queensland in 1931. Backgrounds his German and Scottish ancestry, his convict heritage, his grandparents' and parents' lives, and his siblings. Talks of the World War Two precautions and rationing, the presence of American troops, the bombing of Darwin, Broome and Townsville and the death of a neighbour in the war. Tells his father was away at war for months on end and developed a drinking problem. Tells about boyhood activities, movies, food treats and the Catholic versus Protestant conflicts. Recalls preferring sports to subjects at school and leaving secondary school after 6 months to work as apprentice painter decorator. Tells how he was burnt so badly on his first day at work he spent 11 weeks in hospital, and lost the job due to a religious argument with a nun. Talks about working at Western Queensland outback stations after the war for three to four years. Details the lifestyle of shearing gangs and meeting Kiwi shearers and the drinking culture. Talks about Aborigine people, mixed marriages and families, comparing them with Maori. Says he has Maori son-in-law. Describes travelling around Queensland to Bundaberg and Cook Town where cane cutters were mainly New Australians and prostitution was legal because women wouldn't go there. Talks of freedom to move from job to job. Talks of going to Leeton to pack oranges where he met his wife who was part of big Welsh community there. Tells of meeting Jim Hodges and Don Potter while living in boarding houses. Mentions trip to work at Whyalla shipyards. Talks about going back to Leeton and his wedding, and the birth of his daughters in 1954 and 1957. Reflects on motivation for emigrating to New Zealand and lack of ties to Australia, comments that it was 21 years before he returned to Australia. Tells of boat trip to New Zealand and first impressions of Wellington, Lyttelton and Oamaru. Recounts differences between New Zealand and Australia in housing, accent, alcohol supply, food, cars, schools, pensions, news coverage and Anzac day. Talks about the friendships with the Hodges and Potters, what his grandchildren are doing and how he has never regretted moving here. Interviewer(s) - Linda Hepburn Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHDL-001616 Quantity: 1 digital sound recording(s) digital sound recording(s). 2 Electronic document(s) - abstract. 1 printed abstract(s). 1 digital photograph(s). 1 interview(s). 4.26 Hours and minutes Duration. Physical Description: Sound files - wave files; Textual files - Microsoft word; Image file - Tiff Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-7452, OHDL-001617. Photograph of Dallas Schafer taken at the time of his interview in May 2011 Search dates: 1931 - 2011

Date: 1862-1898

From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm

By: Scott, Walter Jervoise, 1835-1890

Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2468-2475

Description: Comprises photograph albums, letterbooks financial statements, correspondence and other material relating to the Scott brothers and their sheep and, later, cattle station in the Valley of the Lagoons, Queensland Source of title - Transcribed Quantity: 8 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available. Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Purchase, AJCP, 1991