Interview with Judge Sir Adrian Curlewis, former President of the Surf Life Saving Association and founder of Outward Bound in Australia / Interviewer: Neil Bennetts.

1976

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Curlewis, Adrian, -- Sir, -- 1901-1985.

Surf Life Saving Association of Australia.

Outward Bound Australia.

Judges -- Australia.

Sir Adrian speaks about his family background and early life in Mosman; his involvement in 1920s with the Palm Beach Surf Life-saving Club; his early law career; his wife and children; his time as president of the Surf Life Saving Association from 1933 to 1975; the decision to use shark mesh; World War II, including as a Japanese prisoner-of-war in Changi and on the Burma Railway; serving as a Judge on the New South Wales District Court from 1948 to 1971; his many community activities; his mother, the famous Australian author Ethel Turner; his father, also a judge; the history of surf lifesaving in Australia; establishing Outward Bound in Australia; introducing the Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme in Australia; and the New South Wales Youth Policy Committee.

Compact discs.

Access open for research, personal copies and public use.

Recorded in Sydney, New South Wales on 9 February 1976.

Oral History Collection.

6 sound discs : digital + transcript (70 l.)