Abstract Person Recorded: Kathleen Joyce Meredith Date of interview: 26 January 2004Interviewer and abstractor: Morag ForresterTape Counter: Sony TCM 393Tape 1 Side A005: Opens discussion saying she was born in NORSEWOOD, HAWKES BAY and grew up around there on a FARM before the family moved to PUKETAPU, NAPIER.015: Says primary school at PUKETAPU was a two-teacher one and there were about three pupils to each class....

Abstract Person recorded: Harold Charles (Snow) BurrowsDate: 5 July 2004Interviewer and abstractor: Morag ForresterTape counter: TCM 939Tape 1 Side A starts004: Opens discussion stating his full name is HAROLD CHARLES BURROWS and he was born 1934 in EAST GORE where his family had a NURSERY (plants). (In an earlier conversation he explained the nickname SNOW arose from his having white-blonde hair as a child and into early adulthood)....

Overview "Snow" Burrows is the eldest child of one the founding members of the Fiordland Travel Company, Lawson Burrows. A book by Lawson entitled "Te Anau Anchorage" gives a personal history of what led to the creation of the company in its early years before it was sold in 1966. In this interview Snow gives his own account of living and working in Te Anau and Fiordland from the 1940s to the present day.

Overview In this interview Carley talks about growing up in Gore and her first experiences visiting Fiordland from the age of 10. Carley talks about her nursing training and meeting husband George, who she married in 1951. Not long after their marriage they moved to Fiordland and lived at Cascade Creek. They moved into Te Anau so that their eldest son could attend primary school and Carley started a Bed and Breakfast. George took up fishing and was away a lot so Carley got a job as a radio operator....

Overview In this interview, Wilson recounts his early life in the Catlins and Balcultha. Wilson started his first business at the age of 16, selling fruit and produce from Central Otago to retailers in Gore. Wilson then recounts his time in the air force during WWII. At the end of the war Wilson and his wife Verna moved to Te Anau. Wilson became involved in local tourism. He describes a plan he came up with for a ski field on Mt Luxmore. He recalls how he and Lawson Burrows discovered the glow worm...

Overview In this interview, Kathleen talks about her early life in the Hawkes Bay. In her early 20s Kathleen started work in the NZ Forestry Service in Napier and it was there that she met her husband Evan. It was on their honeymoon that Kathleen first visited Te Anau. As newly-weds Kathleen and Evan moved to Hokitika where Evan took up deer meat hunting. They set up a venison processing factory where Kathleen had a hands on role processing meat. In 1964 the couple bought a venison processing factory in...

Abstract Person recorded: Wilson Cameron Campbell Date of Interview: 18 December 2003Interviewer and Abstractor: Morag ForresterTape counter: Sony TCM 939Tape 1 Side A005: Gives DOB – born in 1918008: Born in OWAKA, early childhood spent in TAWANUI022: Says TAWANUI is in the CATLINS area.039: Went to school in TAWANUI. Describes school as one teacher with about twenty pupils.069: Recalls...