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Tape 3 - Harry and Daphne McCormack
Tape 3 - Harry McCormack
00.30 - Started Feb 1928 straight out of school
01.00 – job at the Store was a job for life
01.30 – Dave Sneddon / secretary / bread carter
01.45 – Johnny Lamb / General Manager
02.05 – employed as junior / “the boy” / 48hr week
02.40 – weighing / packing
04.10 – messages / mail / Wickham PO
05.05 – packing grocery orders
05.35 – extension / pickle factory / water spring / basement flooded / built well & pump /
07.50 – history of Stockton store / Aussie Lambert (employee & cricketer)
09.55 – cashier’s ball
14.20 – working hours / conditions
16.00 – girls leave when married
16.30 – wages / training
17.40 – depression affected the Store
19.00 – welfare system / dole docket
20.00 - Wallsend Store / West Wallsend / Boolaroo / miners stores / best divvy
20.45 – Kurri / Cessnock/ Singleton etc
21.15 – trade unions
21.45 – uniforms / white coats / aprons
23.25 – laundry allowance
24.45 – hand towels
25.30 – merchandisers / Harry Lukes /
27.25 – cake & pastry department
28.20 – bottle collector
28.40 – ice department / engineers / ice carts / frozen rooms / butter printery / blocks of ice / butter carts / single horse drawn / groceries two horse drawn
32.25 – milk department / no bottles / billycans
35.15 – Store stables / Mark Murphy
36.30 – grocery carters / collected orders by horse & sulky / baby in bath story / knew customers well / cooperative relationships
43.00 – sulky shed & horse stable / funny story about horse not being hooked up properly
44.20 – another funny story / Stuart Ave / calm horse / horse bolts on Hunter St / driver went through floor trying to pull horse up
45.30 – funny story / Billy / carter / delivered to Dudley / lots poultry farms / widow / stacked her goods / gave him chook for Xmas / it died / worked hard all year for a dead chook
47.20 – Daphne / ticket writer / 125 girls interviewed / free lunch / 2 of them got jobs for Xmas period / worked there 10 years
49.00 – worked various counters
49.00 – biscuits and cakes counter / boiled lollies
Tape 3 - Daphne McCormack
00.00 - Small goods shared food with cakes & biscuits
00.20 - Payment System
01.00 – cake & biscuit processes
01.30 – cleaning processes (cakes)
01.40 – moved counters when busy
02.00 – cleaning processes (general)
02.45 – two Miss Musks (managers)
03.05 – millinery
04.20 – shop layout
05.50 – refrigerated provision counters
06.10 - butchering processes
07.20 - cheese processes
09.00 – devon / empire sausage
09.45 – rabbits
09.55 – treating provision to look good
10.25 – terrazzo floor / cleaning processes
10.55 – stacking shelves / display processes
12.20 – grocers / packaging / weighing / serving counter
14.50 – BHP pay week processes / “big week”
15.45 – working conditions
17.25 – employee’s welfare club
19.20 – dances & balls
20.00 – store picnic
21.10 – employee’s welfare club
SubjectNewcastle and Suburban Co-operative Society Ltd. -- HistoryCooperative societies -- New South Wales -- NewcastlePersonDaphne McCormackHarry McCormack