• Title
  Item 18: Tape 29 Rodrigo Wood interview with Anne Whitehead, 9 September 1989
• Call number
  MLOH 890/29
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  9 September 1989
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9653583
• Physical Description
  1 audiocassette (approximately 60 min.)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Rodrigo Wood is the eldest son of Norman Wood, in 1982 he was manager of a Paraguayan merchant bank, Progreso. After the 1989 Stroessner coup he continued as a financier and developer and owned a cattle ranch in the Chaco region. Rodrigo Wood became President of the Cricket Club of Asuncion and tended to be the chief spokesperson for the Wood family and indeed for Australian descendants in Paraguay.
• Scope and Content
  In this interview, Rodrigo Wood talks about why his grandparents came to Paraguay, the revolution among the shearers, the name of New Australia changed. Recorded in Asuncion with Rodrigo Wood
• Access Conditions
  
  Master only. For access to this oral history collection please submit your request through Ask a Librarian
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales courtesy of Anne Whitehead
• General note
  
  Tape 29 Side A transcript pages 796-806 and Side B Transcript pages 806-816
  Transcript available at MLMSS 12032/Box 1
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Wood, Rodrigo
  
• Subject
  Wood, Rodrigo--Interviews.
  Shearers' Strike, Queensland, 1891
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE21162742

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