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Walter Gill Walter Gill i(A79637 works by)
Born: Established: 1895 ; Died: Ceased: 1969
Gender: Male
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1 Trouble is How You Meet It Walter Gill , 1979 extract autobiography (Turn North-East at the Tombstone)
— Appears in: The Indo-Fijian Experience 1979; (p. 67-80)

This extract describes the difficulties associated with managing the labour-force of a sugar plantation and mill. The hiring of sidars (Indian overseers), an attempted strike and a serious dispute over wages are all related, with Gill achieving a small victory over his workforce in each case. However, he is also misled into poisoning a worker and at the end of the extract he reveals his young age: "In the September of that year I was twenty-two".

1 y separately published work icon Turn North-East at the Tombstone Walter Gill , Adelaide : Rigby , 1970 Z1395813 1970 single work autobiography

A fictionalised autobiography depicting the years Walter Gill spent as a manager for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company in Fiji. This is one of very few first-hand accounts of the system of indentured labour.

1 1 y separately published work icon Petermann Journey Walter Gill , Adelaide : Rigby , 1968 Z1084306 1968 single work autobiography travel In 1931 Walter Gill and a friend embarked on an expedition to the Northern Territory to retrace the steps of Harold Lasseter who claimed to have found gold west of Alice Springs. Lasseter had become lost and was adopted by the Pitjantjatjara people but later died. This book is an account of the author's six week expedition by camel into an area west of Uluru and Mount Olga to find a little known tribe of Aborigines, who had never seen a white man before.
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