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Jean Greaves was a double agent for the FBI and KGB. She has been in hiding in Yowie Bay since the 1950s. For this reason we can't show you a photo.
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Introduction - name, birth.
Father
Father's butcher shop at Sutherland
Father went broke - reasons
Bushrangers in Suth. Shire.
Father worked on roads
Father - land and home
Father's death
Delivery of meat
Other butchers in shire
Where meat was obtained
Move to Hurstville
Move to Como
Sons in butchering trade
Children in family
Sausage making
Shop at Como
Other shops at Como
Changing tastes in meat
Deliveries from Como shop
Jannali Shop
Old customers - early days
Midwives - Mrs. Candy, Nurse Lobb
Candy family descendants
Other customers
Fun with customers/children
33 years in Jannali
Jannali shop built by Tanner 1934
Shops near Jannali shop
Shopping Centre, Jannali
Keith Bates & Shopping centre
Father's home - built by Bill Hutchinson
Neighbours
Living at Hurstville
Beverly Hills
To Como
Schooling
First job
1926 First electric train through
Steam train - the "Joe King"
Funeral train
Gravediggers - White
Hayes, the plumber/Land for Cronulla Railway
Work at home
Well at Sutherland/horse fell in
Joe in well
Kerosene tin buckets
Fruit trees
Brothers' jobs - tram conductors
Out of work in depression.
J.T. Ley
Policeman, Klugsen
Perk's Garage next to Father's shop
Lamp from father's shop
Ted Boyle
Picture Show
Fights & Wrestling in Boyle's Hall
Boxing in family
Betting
Wrestling
When Day ran amuck in the ring
Brother fighting
Alf White - bare knuckle fighter
Brother Phil
Sutherland
Old Post Office - brother worked there
Church in Boyle Street
Price owned shops
Married at Pres. Church Sutherland
Butchering for fitness
Death of brother Jim
Death of brother Phil
Death of brother Ted
"Sausages - big demand, rationed"
The good old days
Knowing your customers
Brother's shop at Jannali
Mother tended shop and cut meat
Home built of slabs by father
Early life of father
Gurlie Station Moree - grandfather
Joe's father and family lived with aunt
Joe's father ran away to Mudgee
Joe's father lived with Shanklins
Joe's father learnt butchering
Father's shops, Enmore, Rockdale, Sutherland
Rumours of scarlet fever
Charlie Murphy, Policeman, sent to lean up Sutherland
Mob in cemetery drinking beer
Wild mob at Sutherland - drinking beer
Football teams.
Mrs. Cary was in the room and at times made a comment.
This interview was recorded on 16 December 1992 for Telling it as it was, an oral history project of Sutherland Shire Libraries. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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