TOCAH Stories

In February 1944, still at age 16, Clarrie Diefenbach was appointed as head teacher of Yaparaba State School – a school 7 miles beyond the Callide Valley rail terminus.

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.

In this video interview excerpt, Gerry Bell describes his occupation as a Chainman and Cadet Surveyor.

Pre-school life in Dad-built house on stilts in Bundaberg, children playing shops under the house after school, frogs sitting around the bath.