Overview For about twenty years, Olive was a member of the Board of Directors of Real Journeys (formerly trading as Fiordland Travel Ltd), one of New Zealand's largest tourist operators. Her late husband, Les Hutchins, was instrumental in shaping and developing tourism in Fiordland from small beginnings in 1954 to the multi-million dollar industry it has become in 2005. In this profile, Olive describes the changes she has witnessed from life on a farm in Myross Bush, bringing up a young family on the...

Abstract Interviewee: Olive Doreen Hutchins Date: 8 February 2005Interviewer and abstracter: Morag ForresterTape counter: Sony TCM 393Tape 1 Side A007: Gives her full name as OLIVE DOREEN SIMPSON and that she was born in 1925 in hospital in INVERCARGILL.013: States her FATHER was CHARLES HERBERT SIMPSON and her MOTHER was CLEMENTINA ELIZABETH neé FERGUSON.019: Replies that her FATHER worked for WRIGHT...

Overview Jack McKenzie is the author of an autobiography titled Mr Wapiti, published in 1992. In it he gives details about his family history and farm, Leithen Downs near Waikaka, where he has lived his eighty-two years. But as the book's title suggests, it is more concerned with his life-long interest in trophy hunting of both red deer and wapiti particularly in the Fiordland National Park. It also includes comment on his years as a member of the Fiordland National Park Board. This profile covers...

Abstract Interviewee: Jack McKenzie Interview Date: 3 February 2005Interviewerand Abstracter: M. ForresterTape counter: Sony TCM 939Tape 1 Side A005: States he was born JOHN HARVEY MCKENZIE in 1922 in TAPANUI HOSPITAL, which is now an unused building in the town of the same name situated about 20ks east of GREENVALE/LEITHEN DOWNS.021: Replies that his GRANDFATHER, ANDREW MCKENZIE, first arrived in AUSTRALIA from...

Overview As Jack explains through the interview, his connection with Manapouri reaches back several generations. His great grandfather, (Old Bob) Robelt Murrell arrived at Bluff in 1863 and settled at Balloon Loop (by the Waiau River) two years later. The Murrell family is one of first explorers, farmers, tour guides and accommodation providers in the Te Anau Basin. In this profile, Jack is historian and raconteur. He also gives a personal account of growing up in an area that has undergone enormous...

Abstract Interviewee: John Robert (Jack) MURRELLInterview date: 05 OCTOBER 2004 Interviewer and Abstractor: Morag ForresterA third interview took place again in the lounge at GRAND VIEW.Tape 4 Side A starts003: Opens saying that OLD BOB had been appointed as the first CHIEF GUIDE on the MILFORD TRACK after the government took over control of it from the ROSS BROTHERS (JACK and DONALD) [However, DONALD ROSS had been appointed GOVERNMENT GUIDE...