- Entry type: Resource
- Entry ID: AWH002434
Lorraine Hewett interviewed by Ros Bowden in the Women of the land oral history project [sound recording]
- Repository National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
- Reference ORAL TRC 3406/18
- Date Range 2-Mar-95 - 2-Mar-95
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Description
2 sound cassettes (ca. 1 hr. 27 min.) Hewett speaks of her background, her schooling, her first job, her first encounter with sheep, her parents, starting on a farm, meeting her future husband, love of farming, breeding program with sheep and rams when the Australian Merino Society was still young, Artificial Insemination program (AI), teaching students about training rams, rams’ sexual behaviour, criticism from men in the industry towards a woman who is a rams’ breeder, using a computer to calculate fleece and body weights, setting up two laboratories of wool testing and invaluable help received from CSIRO and the W.A. Dept. of Agriculture.
- Access Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Finding Aid Transcript available (typescript, 49 leaves.)