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Harry Goon's Hut, Wodonga

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:  Market Garden Huts
:  hut,  market gardening
:  Riverina (NSW/VIC)
:  Wodonga
:  c.1940

Harry Goon's Hut or Harry Goon's Camp was a market garden on which a number of aging men lived in the 1940s.

Harry Ah Goon a market gardener since at least 1901/1904 - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/128569404

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/118744235

Donations - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/108929405

 

AT THE CHINESE GARDENS - interview with tomato growers - https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/109835943 

 

"Louie Gail, who was found dead in his hut at Harry Goon's Chinese camp, Wodonga"

Border Morning Mail, 4 August 1947, p.2.