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Issue Details: First known date: 1970... 1970 Turn North-East at the Tombstone
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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.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Adelaide, South Australia,: Rigby , 1970 .
      Extent: 171p.
      ISBN: 085179047X
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Related Works

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".

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    Fiji,
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    South Pacific, Pacific Region,
  • ca. 1920s
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