Overview Born the youngest of four sons, Snow's early teens were shadowed by events in Europe. His older brothers on active service during WWII, he left school at the age of fourteen to help out on the family farm in North Otago. Post-war, he continued working as a farmhand on various properties throughout North Otago. A spell of employment with an Oamaru-based limeworks company led to his introduction to Te Anau where lime was extracted from a local site for use on the goverrnment's farm development...

Abstract Albert Ivan (Snow) WILLIAMSInterview Date: 14 November 2008Interviewer: Morag ForresterTape I Side A012: Born in 1928.020: Replies that his first initials A.I are for ALBERT IVAN (WILLIAMS) and that he was born in OAMARU and grew up in OTEKAIEKE (NORTH OTAGO). His preferred name of SNOW was coined because of his having very blonde hair as a youngster.028: His FATHER, he says, was JAMES CLEMENS WILLIAMS who was FARMER of a...