Council meeting of 27 October 2026 has been adjourned and will reconvene at 7.00pm on Tuesday, 3 November 2026 in the Council Chambers, Level 1A, 1 Pope Street, Ryde.
John Maclay discusses his youth in Ermington in the early 1900s until the 1930s. He talks of his early illnesses and employment, involvement with local political issues, courtship of his future wife and his imprisonment in Changi, and treatment for post-war illnesses. He also recounts the return of World War I diggers and other memories of the local area at that time, with particularly interesting and vivid anecdotes.
Interviewer: Lesley Goldberg Date of the interview: 18 December 1997 Transcription: Gabrielle Godard, November 1998
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