Overview A retired farmer, Lovat has experienced life on very different rural properties in the Te Anau Basin. As a child he and his brothers grew up amid the tussocks and sheep of a small pastoral run, The Gorge. During his early married life, he experienced farming in eastern Southland and at Mossburn until 1970 when he was one of the successful applicants of the ballot system for the government's new farm settlements in the Te Anau Basin. During this interview Lovat gives a personal account of the...

Abstract Interviewee: Lovat Hugh Fraser Interview Date: 17 October 2006Interviewer: M. ForresterTape counter: Sony TCM 939Tape 1 Side A008: States he is LOVAT HUGH FRASER and that he was born in 1940 at LUMSDEN HOSPITAL. Adds that he was the second youngest of a family of six BOYS, one of whom (IAN) died in a TUSSOCK fire at the age of three. Tape stopped and restarted.030: Replies that his FATHER was SIMON LOVAT who...

Overview The tourism industry has been an essential contributor to the local economy of the Te Anau Basin since the formation of the Milford Track in the late 1800s. Following the opening of a vehicle route to Milford Sound in the 1950s, the number of visitors to the district has grown to the extent that an estimated 650,000 people a year spend at least a few hours at Milford. Dave Moss, has just retired from the local hospitality industry after about 35 years involvement. First, he was at Milford...

Abstract Interviewee: David Thomas (Dave) Moss Date of Interview: 7 July 2006Interviewer and abstractor: Morag ForresterSony Counter: Sony TCM 939Tape 1 Side A006: States he is DAVID THOMAS MOSS and that he was born in 1949 in CLYDE HOSPITAL. 018: Replies that his FATHER was REX THOMAS MOSS while his paternal GRANDFATHER was THOMAS MACHIN MOSS, adding that it was about 1910 when his GRANDFATHER immigrated to...