Overview Ann talks family history, employment, interest and involvement in bag pipes and the Pipe Band, and incidents in her life that helped to form her beliefs and her commitment to being an advocate for vulnerable people. She became the first female Qualified Horticulturalist Arborist in NZ. She details her varied employment record and employers, marriage and family. Ann tells of the crippling interest rates in the 1980s and impacts on their farming. She goes on to tell of the hardships faced when...

Abstract Elizabeth Ann ROBBIEInterviewer: Cathy MacfieAbstracter: Cathy MacfieSESSION 1: 30 November 2022TRACK 1 IntroductionTRACK 2 00.06 EARLY MEMORIES: First home at STUART STREET opposite HAWTHORNDALE BOWLING CLUB. Parents bowled after children were in bed. Reference COMMUNITY.00.47 Describes primrose coloured BATHROOM FITTINGS – “quite smart”.01.03 Remembers POPES, neighbours with FURNITURE CARRYING...

Abstract Interviewee: Helen Anne WatsonInterviewer: Judith ThomasDate: 27th June 2022PLEASE NOTE THESE ARE NOTES TAKEN BY THE INTERVIEWERTrack 1Born – house parents – marriage – pianos – workshop (fathers) Army huts 4 war – Sections –PRICE family (NICHOLS GARDEN CENTRE) ENVIRONMENT SOUTHLAND site. RHODODENDRONS. Street names. City stopped at the river – COLLINGWOOD/WAIKIWI PRESTONVILLE. 2 Brewries BAY RD.,GRASMERE – tram cars – Primary &...