32Sydney 1966
Bruce Fraser had been apprehensive about talking to the old Henry King Industries medico, Peter Mathers. Paul Morahan had told him he was going to be hostile to the company. Charlie Boustead, who had given him Mathers’s contact details advised him to watch out for the doctor’s trademark temper. Fraser had images of Vesuvius given the warning came from one of the biggest hotheads he had ever known. When he arrived at Mathers’s home in the Shire, he found himself confronted by a hunched over, quietly spoken man with wild exclamation mark eyebrows on a sad face. Peter Mathers was prepared to tell Bruce Fraser everything he could recall. There were some obvious gaps and plenty of reconstruction aimed at putting the doctor into a favourable place in history. Overall, however, Fra
