Abstract Reginald George Alexander MCLEODInterviewed by Gill PoplurDISK 1Track 103.08 Snippets from the 1940s: Ash cart and dustman04.28 Corporation horse yard04.48 milkman05.27 meat safe06.04 milk monitor08.18 Pleasure Bay activities09.46 old fisherman and sewerage11.57 Free coal13.33 Policeman13.52 Joinery factoryTrack 2...

Overview This interview is part of the Awarua Radio Communications Museum collection. In this interview Jack recalls and describes his employment. First as a telephone operator at Waimahaka Post Office before transferring to the Lines Department in 1950 During the war he spent 3 years in the Air Force ass a radio operator. As an employee of the Lines department Jack worked in various areas of Southland becoming a foreman after 6 years. He enjoyed his work and details what it in entailed e.g., putting up...

Abstract H0230 GORDON JOHN (JACK) CRIGHTONInterviewer: Seona CraigAbstracter: Judith ChristieInterview: 17 July 2015Please note that the volume of the recordings is low and sometimes difficult to hear.TRACK ONE00.00 Self started straight from school as a telephone operator at WAIMAHAKA POST OFFICE, cycling from home. Did switchboard operating and counter work, then transferred to LINES in 1950. Three years in the AIR FORCE as a...

Overview This interview looks at Jack’s family history around Wyndham-Waimahaka-Fortrose. The family farm was called ‘Alameda’. Jack details and describes his early memories of his education, the polio epidemic and its affects, jobs he did on the farm and farming types and practices e.g. sheep sharing, transporting of stock. He looks at the changes to farming and the district after WW2 and social life of the time e.g. football, dances, floundering, whitebaiting, eeling and car types.

Overview This interview is part of the Awarua Radio Communications Museum Collection. Victor recalls his employment as a telephone repair person with the Post Office. He gives a history of the move from manual phones to push button phones as well as a detailed description of the cleaning and repair process.

Abstract H0233VICTOR CLYDE WESTInterviewer: Seona CraigAbstracter: Judith Christie Interview: 2 July 2015TRACK One00:00 Born in 193901.30 BECAME BLIND in late teens, went to AUCKLAND to train, and then commenced work at the POST OFFICE in August 1967. No training given for Post Office work, shown the job by a senior telephone repairer. Work involved taking the phones apart and replacing broken parts, and then testing....

Overview In this interview Peter tells of his life and times on his family farm at Waikawa/Progress Valley. He talks of farming practice, the family interest in music which lead to the formation of the Possum Pickers Band. Peter also tells of his involvement in Rugby and his interest in fishing.