Elaine Roberts Interview – Part 3
The only patch of concrete under the house for washtubs, Coolgardie Safe, icebox needing brother’s regular visits to the ice factory on bicycle as petrol allowance was 3 gallons per month.
Elaine Roberts Interview – Part 2
Dad principal of one teacher school, principal took on ambulance and first aid officer role, students rode to school on horseback, so school had a several acre reserve for the horses.
Elaine Roberts Interview – Part 1
Memories of Hivesville School, school reserve, no electricity or telephone (local farmer had the only one); up early, feed chooks, fight white rooster on way to backyard toilet.
Nita Hughes Interview – Part 5
Mum might give us a penny to buy something – a meat pie and sugar donut to share among 4.
Nita Hughes Interview – Part 4
Contact with Aboriginal people: Mother’s helper and lots of children at school – “Oh! Where did they come from?”
Nita Hughes Interview – Part 3
At school: trenches with dilly bag around necks with peg for nose, rubber to bite on, cotton wool for ear plugs in case of bombing – West Bundaberg SS.
Nita Hughes Interview – Part 2
Garden with chooks; brothers to milk factory for a can each of milk and butter – chickens locally – yabbies – no food as wartime and Dad not enough work.
Nita Hughes Interview – Part 1
Pre school life in Dad-built house on stilts in Bundaberg; children playing shops under the house after school; frogs sitting around the bath.
