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Transcript: Miss Marjorie Tebb recalls coupons used after WWII in her family's butchering business

Sydney Flour Song

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Playfair, Thomas

First Government Water Mill, Parramatta

Kanematsu flour bag label print c1935

Moore Stairs, between Talbot Wool Stores at East Circular Quay 1870

Wool washing estate, Botany c1870

Miss Elizabeth Killinger talks about her father's tannery on the Georges River, interviewed 1986

Miss Marjorie Tebb recalls coupons used after WWII in her family's butchering business, interviewed 1986

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Transcript: Miss Marjorie Tebb recalls coupons used after WWII in her family's butchering business

Miss Marjorie Tebb was born in 1920 and interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' Here she is talking about the complex arrangements for coupons after World War II that regulated the wholesale and retail trade in meat for CR Tebb and Sons, her family's butchering business

Sydney Flour Song

Advertising song broadcast on radio

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Pippita railway station

Railway station built in 1940 on the abattoir branch line for the workers at the State Abattoirs at Homebush and other industry in the area. It closed in 1995.

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HL Bussell & Company Ltd

Company formed in Chippendale by Henry Lytton Bussell after his arrival in Sydney in 1904. It produced flour products under the White Wings brand name until 1952 when the company was acquired by Gillespies Bros Pty Ltd and the company name changed to White Wings Pty Ltd.

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Baughan, John

Millwright and carpenter who arrived in Sydney as a convict on the Friendship in the First Fleet. He designed and built a successful functional grinding mill, using a treadmill model operated by 9 men in March 1794.

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Playfair, Thomas

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Butcher, charity worker and politician who campaigned for slum clearance and improved sanitation and water supply for the city. He was also responsible for the establishment of the Homebush saleyards in 1882. He served as Mayor of Sydney in 1885.

First Government Water Mill, Parramatta

Mill built at Mays Hill on the upper reaches of the Parramatta River about 1792 by Thomas Allen. It would appear to have been in use briefly in 1793, but it was unreliable and frequently broke down so was largely unused. Rebuilt in 1804, it was still fairly unsuccessful and was destroyed in 1820.

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Kanematsu flour bag label print c1935

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[ Z/XX/125]

Moore Stairs, between Talbot Wool Stores at East Circular Quay 1870

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[GPO1 05308]

(Mitchell Library)

Wool washing estate, Botany c1870

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By

Samuel Elyard

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a2085019 / DGD 5, f 19]

(Dixson Galleries)

Miss Elizabeth Killinger talks about her father's tannery on the Georges River, interviewed 1986

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Miss Elizabeth Killinger was born in 1899 and was interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' Miss Killinger's family was of German extraction and she talks here about her father's tannery on Ritchie's Creek [now Brickmakers Creek] on Georges River, which he established in the very early twentieth century.
Transcript

INTERVIEWER: And what did your father do in Liverpool?

ELIZABETH: He was a tanner.

INTERVIEWER: Whereabouts was your father's tannery, can you tell me a bit about that?

ELIZABETH: Yes, it was it was on the Ritchie's Creek I think they called it. If you came out from Liverpool, if you walked along Moore Street and then across Flowerdale Road, the road ended. Then we had our own private Ã¢â‚¬â€œ we called it a track but it was really a road Ã¢â‚¬â€œ and our house was just inside, oh not inside, about halfway between the road, Flowerdale Road and the creek, and then the tannery was a bit up from the creek. He had to pick a good spot where the water was suitable and there was a big water hole there and the creek came down through from round Hoxton Park way and down. And it never went dry at all. We had a couple of very heavy droughts and there was always water, he always had water, 'cause there was no city water around us at that time. He saw the land, it was sold by auction and he bought fifteen acres.

INTERVIEWER: So whereabouts did he learn his trade?

ELIZABETH: He learnt his trade in Germany, with his uncle in Wartenberg.

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Liverpool City Library

[BRN:57222]

(Excerpt from interview with Miss Elizabeth Killinger for 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900-1960' conducted in 1986 by Liverpool City Council, editor and project co-ordinator Catherine Johnson ; researchers Angela Imbrosciano, Verica Miiosavijevic, Kathleen Smith.)

Miss Marjorie Tebb recalls coupons used after WWII in her family's butchering business, interviewed 1986

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Miss Marjorie Tebb was born in 1920 and interviewed in 1986 for the 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900 to 1960.' Here she is talking about the complex arrangements for coupons after World War II that regulated the wholesale and retail trade in meat for CR Tebb and Sons, her family's butchering business.
Transcript

MARJORIE: We went to the abattoirs every morning for a while and then we started to only go three times a week: Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays. In the meat hall we had a rubber stamp and if you said 'Right, I want that, how much is that?' they'd tell you so much a pound, or a kilo, as it is now, and then you'd put that rubber stamp on. And then when they delivered it you knew that it was what you'd got at the abattoirs because it had your stamp. At the time there was coupons [for] meat, and you had to have coupons to buy it. Many a coupon I counted; each beast was so many coupons or each lamb or mutton so many coupons per animal, pigs were so many coupons. And when you sold it you had to cut the coupons out of their [customers] books; and those coupons had to be counted and put in an envelope and sealed. You had five hundred in each envelope, an ordinary manilla envelope. You'd put them in and you'd put your stamp on the back of it - we've got a 'CR Tebb and Sons' stamp, you'd seal it and put the CR Tebb stamp on it and write 'five hundred coupons' on it. And you had to send that in to the Metropolitan Meat and Industry Board. They'd receive the coupons form you. That would give you the authority to buy the meat at the abattoirs.

Contributed By

Liverpool City Library

[BRN:57880]

(Excerpt from interview with Miss Marjorie Tebb for 'Looking Back at Liverpool: An Oral History of the Liverpool Region 1900-1960' conducted in 1986 by Liverpool City Council, editor and project co-ordinator Catherine Johnson ; researchers Angela Imbrosciano, Verica Miiosavijevic, Kathleen Smith.)