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Box 51

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Contains 28 Results:

Abstract of Thomas Andrew (Tom) ROBERTS, 2005

 Item — Box: 51
Identifier: H05540002
Abstract Interviewee: Thomas Andrew (Tom) Roberts Date: 27 October 2005Interviewer and Abstractor: Morag ForresterTape counter: Sony TCM 939Tape 1 Side A004: States his full name is THOMAS ANDREW ROBERTS and that he was born in INVERCARGILL in 1932.009: His FATHER, he says, was named JAMES EDWARD ROBERTS, born in BLUFF in 1901 and five years later living in TE ANAU with his PARENTS (TOM’S GRANDPARENTS). Adds that his...
Dates: 2005

Abstract of Valerie Joan (Val) ROBBIE, 2005

 Item — Box: 51
Identifier: H05550002
Abstract Interviewee: Valerie Joan (Val) Robbie Date: 31 October 2005Interviewer and abstracter: Morag ForresterTape counter: Sony TCM 939Tape 1 Side A006: States she is VALERIE JOAN (ROBBIE née CUTHILL) and that she was born in 1924 at home in INVERCARGILL. 007: Replies that there were three CHILDREN in her family: one SISTER, NORMA, and one BROTHER, BOB (ROBERT).021: Her FATHER was JOHN ELLIOT...
Dates: 2005

HUTCHINS, Olive Doreen interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box: 51
Identifier: H0550
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...
Dates: 2005

Abstract of Olive Doreen HUTCHINS, 2005

 Item — Box: 51
Identifier: H05500002
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...
Dates: 2005

McKENZIE, John Harvey (Jack) interviewed by Morag Forrester

 Record Group — Box: 51
Identifier: H0549
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...
Dates: 2005

Abstract of John Harvey (Jack) McKENZIE, 2005

 Item — Box: 51
Identifier: H05490002
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...
Dates: 2005