Overview In this interview, Jack gives details of his family background and schooling. He talks about Invercargill and the Jabez Hay and Company foundry of which his father was a part owner. He describes the family farm at Kennington which had hens and dairy cows. He mentions rabbiting. Jack married Thelma Ayers in 1935 and they had six children. Jack goes on to discuss his love of breeding and showing birds and his long association with the Invercargill Poultry, Pigeon and Canary Club. He was a member...

Overview In this interview, valda talks about her early life in the Nightcaps area and moving from there to Winton during her school years and then Invercargill. She describes her career starting working in nurseries and going on to manage the rose gardens in Invercargill's Queen's Park. She talks about her love of roses and her favourite varieties and also of the apprentices who came to work with her.

Overview In this interview Marion describes her early life on the Isle of Wight, then her travels to Australia during the Melbourne Olympic Games of 1954. She talks about her various jobs: secretarial work at Somerset House in London, teaching English in Morocco, then working and travelling in the US. She worked for UNESCO in Paris during the late 1950s and then travelled overland from Paris to Singapore. She lived in Darwin, married and then moved to Dunedin, settling near Riverton to raise a family....

Abstract JOHN JABEZ 'JACK' CALVERTRecorded: 08 October 1998Interviewer: Ailsa Dawson Abstracter: Colin Gray (Retyped by Jean Hawkes)PLEASE NOTE THAT THE TIMINGS REFER TO THE ORIGINAL MINIDISC COUNTERNOTE: Extra notes added by Jean Hawkes...JOHN JABEZ 'JACK' CALVERT born 1910Parents: ETHEL LEONIE SHEPPARD and FRANCIS JAMES CALVERT married in 190401’ 00” [SIBLINGS]: FRANCIS RAYMOND HAY – ELLEN MAY...